Philosophy
President Obama today was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." Extraordinary efforts? He hasn't actually done anything yet...other than not be George W. Bush. And that, I believe, is the point. Sure, lukewarm seems hot when compared to freezing cold and reversing the Bush doctrine may be a giant step in the right direction because we had been accelerating so greatly in the wrong direction, but it diminishes the Nobel to give it to someone on a relative scale, especially when there are so many out there who toil in obscurity who are doing incredible work for the betterment of humanity and particular suffering humans, people whose work would be aided by the attention of the Nobel committee. This was not an award for Obama, but a slap against Bush and such a move is petty and beneath what the prize should be.
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Philosophy
Obama's Nobel Peace Prize: For What?
President Obama today was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." Extraordinary efforts? He hasn't actually done anything yet...other than not be George W. Bush. And that, I believe, is the point. Sure, lukewarm seems hot when compared to freezing cold and reversing the Bush doctrine may be a giant step in the right direction because we had been accelerating so greatly in the wrong direction, but it diminishes the Nobel to give it to someone on a relative scale, especially when there are so many out there who toil in obscurity who are doing incredible work for the betterment of humanity and particular suffering humans, people whose work would be aided by the attention of the Nobel committee. This was not an award for Obama, but a slap against Bush and such a move is petty and beneath what the prize should be.
- The Irony Awards
Today is the birthday of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish chemist who invented dynamite and owned a major arms manufacturer before establishing the Peace Prize with his name. What other awards could you come up with the would rival it in irony? The Louie Anderson...
- Obama To Enter Diplomatic Talks With Raging Wildfire
Everyone was surprised last week when President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. This immediately raised the kind of irrational and vociferous debate that we've come to expect as normal, so it's kind of ironic that such a prize...
- Nobel Prize Jurors And Ethics
This doesn't really come as a surprise. When money and prestige are involved in human activities these two features rise to the top. "Nobel Prize hit by bribery scandal" December 19th, 2008 NDTV The prestigious Nobel Prize has been hit by a bribery...
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Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne ISBN-10: 0806520256 ISBN-13: 978-0806520254 Publishers Weekly: Only nine of the more than 300 Nobel prizes awarded in science since 1901 have...
- Lord Rutherford And No Second Nobel Prize
Abstract: "I have dealt with many different transformations with various periods of time, but the quickest that I have met was my own transformation in one moment from a physicist to a chemist." Ernest Rutherford (Nobel Banquet, 1908) This article is...