Take a break, win a Nobel Prize
Intellectual freedom, independent research and frequent coffee breaks with colleagues helped this year’s Nobel Prize winners make their groundbreaking scientific discoveries. The winners of the 2009...
View ArticleNewsmaker of the Year ’09: The Celebs-in-Chief
No one said it would be easy. True, the commander-in-chief began the year as the celebrity-in-chief. Barack Obama, accompanied by his wife, Michelle, kicked things off in Washington with a...
View Article“Almost as lucky as Obama”
Turns out the U.S. President’s Nobel prize wasn’t the only one to generate controversy this year. Nerd-grade coverage of the dispute is available from Spectrum, the mighty trade journal of the...
View ArticleGood news, bad news: May 5-12, 2011
Good news Frederick Breedon/Getty Images Some justice at last It’s been over three years since Robert Dziekanski died at the Vancouver airport after RCMP used Tasers to subdue him. Now B.C.’s attorney...
View ArticleAnnual “Ig Nobel” Prizes awarded
Still from video by gray726 on YouTube Researchers with Canadian connections won awards at the annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony for their “improbable research.” They’ve simultaneously proven that...
View ArticleAstrophysicists awarded Nobel prize
Three scientists whose research posits the existence of mysterious “dark energy” were awarded the Nobel prize for physics Tuesday. Working in two separate teams, Adam Riess, Brian Schmidt of the U.S....
View ArticleCentral America’s women at war
A filthy maze of streets crammed with battered cars and sullen soldiers is at the heart of one of the world’s most dangerous cities, but the first thing Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams does...
View ArticleWhat students are talking about today (October 10th edition)
Stacey Dash in Republican red REALStaceyDash/Twitter 1. Actress Stacey Dash, known best for her role in the 1990s TV show Clueless, has been attacked on Twitter for endorsing Republican Mitt Romney. As...
View ArticleHiggs boson a no-win situation for Nobel prize committee
Updated: The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to Francois Englert and Peter W. Higgs: Francois Englert (Univ. Libre de Bruxelles) & Peter W. Higgs (Univ. of Edinburgh) have been awarded 2013...
View ArticleA list of Canadians who have won the Nobel Prize
Here is a list of Canadians who have won the Nobel Prize: 1923: Frederick G. Banting, Medicine 1949: William F. Giauque, Chemistry 1957: Lester Bowles Pearson, Peace Prize 1966: Charles B. Huggins,...
View ArticleA list of books by Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro
Here is a list of short story collections by Alice Munro, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday: “Dance of the Happy Shades,” 1968 “Lives of Girls and Women,” 1971 “Something I’ve Been...
View ArticleAlice Munro reacts to news: ‘It’s really very wonderful’
TORONTO – Decorated short story writer Alice Munro says she never thought she would win the Nobel Prize for Literature, but calls being the first Canadian-based author to secure the honour “quite...
View ArticleAlice Munro reinforces the Canadian stereotype
Chris Young/CP “I knew I was in the running, yes, but I never thought I would win.” —Alice Munro, on winning the Nobel Prize for Literature On the list of flaws that afflict our country’s most...
View ArticleCanadian authors ecstatic over Munro’s Nobel Prize win: ‘She truly is our...
TORONTO – Canadian writers reacted with ecstatic pride to Thursday’s announcement that cherished homegrown short story master Alice Munro had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, saying it was...
View ArticleAlice Munro: The incomparable storyteller
Alice Munro, seen in 1994. Photo by Peter Bregg Acclaimed Canadian author Alice Munro has won the Nobel Prize for literature. The following profile of Munro was first published in Maclean’s Oct. 17,...
View Article16 Canadian-born Nobel laureates and their prizes
Today, Alice Munro became the first Canadian to win the Nobel prize for literature. The prize is named for Alfred Nobel, who gave most of his fortune to a series of prizes in science, medicine,...
View ArticleMunro’s Books in Victoria, B.C., scene of Alice Munro celebration
VICTORIA – Alice Munro tried selling other people’s books for years, but the deeper she dove into the book-selling business, the more she believed she could write her own stories. Munro’s former...
View ArticleNobel Prize in Economics could go Canadian
This article appeared first onCanadianBusiness.com Canadians from coast to coast were excited to see one of our own, Alice Munro, awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. However, she may not be...
View ArticleAmericans Fama, Hansen and Shiller win economics Nobel for analysis of asset...
STOCKHOLM – Americans Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller won the Nobel prize for economics on Monday for developing new methods to study trends in asset markets. The Royal Swedish...
View ArticleMunro’s prose called ‘stunningly precise’ at Nobel ceremony in Stockholm
STOCKHOLM – Alice Munro was celebrated for her “clean, transparent, subtle and stunningly precise” prose Tuesday as her daughter Jenny accepted the Nobel Prize for literature on her mother’s behalf....
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