Americans: Kicking Ass in Nobel Prizes

Kornberg is the the fifth American to win a Nobel prize this year. So far, all the prizes - medicine, physics and chemistry - have gone to Americans.

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This year's Nobel announcements began Monday, with the Nobel Prize in medicine going to Americans Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello for discovering a powerful way to turn off the effect of specific genes, opening a potential new avenue for fighting diseases as diverse as cancer and AIDS. Their work dealt with how messenger RNA can be prevented from delivering its message to the protein-making machinery.

On Tuesday, Americans John C. Mather and George F. Smoot won the physics prize for work that helped cement the big-bang theory of how the universe was created and deepen understanding of the origin of galaxies and stars.

Each prize includes a check for $1.4 million, a diploma and a medal, which will be awarded by Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf at a ceremony in Stockholm on Dec. 10.

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Mitch Albom's a shoo-in to get the literature award.

 

Diebold comes through again!

 

It is only a matter of time until our chemists and doctors and physicists start relying on their superior athleticism and jumping ability and forget about the fundamentals. Enjoy the wins while we can people.

 

Of course, 35 percent of the population believes God made us out of dust 6000 years ago, so it all balances out.

 

The Americans just want it more than the Europeans. The Euros need to get their acts together. We're beating them at their own game.

 

For this, I'll certainly burn in hell, but ...

Someone sitting next to me once said, "I wonder what Stephen Hawking's IQ is."

I replied, "I don't know, but I bet I can guess his time in the 40."

 

Obviously, this shows an overemphasis on academics and we have lost the proper perspective on athletics. Why don't people care that we can't win the Ryder Cup or the Olympics in basketball or baseball.

 

Post of the year!

 

Nobel prizes by Americans so far in 2006: Five.
Nobel prizes by Canadians in the history of the world: Six.

 

Fantasy league titles won by BigDog: Three.
Actual times with a woman by BigDog: Zero.

 

Now, see, that's just stupid. I mean, the lack of game you haters have is appalling.