It’s that time again.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Jeffrey Connor Hall, Michael Morris Rosbash and Michael Warren Young for their work on the molecular causes of the circadian rhythms.
oh I see the thread now..
Nobel prize in physics awarded for discovery of gravitational waves
£825,000 prize awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne for their work on Ligo experiment which was able to detect ripples in the fabric of spacetime
Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson receive prize for developing method for generating 3D images of life-building structures
Brendon miss out again?
Neophyte said:
:)
Brendon miss out again?
British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, author of Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, has won the Nobel Prize for literature.
sibeen said:
Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson receive prize for developing method for generating 3D images of life-building structures
That would the Chemistry Prize.
“Nobel Peace Prize awarded to International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.”
The International Campaign to Abolish Dynamite missed out again.
Peak Warming Man said:
“Nobel Peace Prize awarded to International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.”The International Campaign to Abolish Dynamite missed out again.
The International Campaign to Abolish Running With Scissors never gets so much as a look-in.
Peak Warming Man said:
“Nobel Peace Prize awarded to International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.”The International Campaign to Abolish Dynamite missed out again.
> International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
There is such a thing?! Perhaps I should join.
Just one nuclear bomb could ruin my whole day.
mollwollfumble said:
Peak Warming Man said:
“Nobel Peace Prize awarded to International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.”The International Campaign to Abolish Dynamite missed out again.
> International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
There is such a thing?! Perhaps I should join.
Just one nuclear bomb could ruin my whole day.
Depends where it explodes relative to you.
RIchard H Thaler for economics.
But he didn’t really, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, some crap made up in the 1960s.
sibeen said:
RIchard H Thaler for economics.But he didn’t really, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, some crap made up in the 1960s.
I love you, man.
Even more so than the literature prize, the he Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is a fashion award.
dv said:
sibeen said:
RIchard H Thaler for economics.But he didn’t really, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, some crap made up in the 1960s.
I love you, man.
Even more so than the literature prize, the he Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is a fashion award.
If maths don’t get a Nobel, economics can just fuck right off, IMHO.
dv said:
sibeen said:
RIchard H Thaler for economics.But he didn’t really, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, some crap made up in the 1960s.
I love you, man.
Even more so than the literature prize, the he Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is a fashion award.
I thought it was the Peace prize that was LOLworthy.
Any of you know what has caused the halving in price of wind-power in the past 5 years? Economies of scale in production?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Any of you know what has caused the halving in price of wind-power in the past 5 years? Economies of scale in production?
That’s my assumption. China went batshit for wind power in the last couple of years.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Any of you know what has caused the halving in price of wind-power in the past 5 years? Economies of scale in production?
Subsidies?
One of Thaler’s theories is about “mental accounting”. The citation describes this as using different reference points to help make decisions, which vary from situation to situation: “One reference point could be the price for which we bought an item, or the lowest price we find when searching on the internet, and we use this reference point to assess whether we have made a “good deal”. In his research, Thaler has provided numerous examples of how mental accounting using differing reference points may lead to decisions that appear strange when evaluated from a traditional economic perspective.”
An example:
“A consumer who finds out that the watch she is about to buy is 100 Swedish krona cheaper in another shop. She chooses to go to the other shop if the watch costs 1,000 krona but won’t do so if it costs 10,000 krona even though the saving in krona is the same. The explanation is that she focuses on the percentage, rather than on the actual saving relative to the reference point.”
Fuck me, a certified genius.