Brian Schmidt, the Australian National University astrophysicist who became a brilliant new star overnight when named a joint Nobel Prize science winner should also get an award for putting pressure on lazy science reporting.
Nobel prize
Why the world needs troublemakers such as Wangari Maathai
Wangari Maathai, the activist and environmentalist who passed away on Monday morning in Nairobi hospital, is mourned as a hero in her native Kenya, writes Rafiq Copeland from Dadaab.
Media briefs: Rupert’s proud to be green … The Oz goes back to the future …
The changes continue at the embattled Ten Network. James Packer has quit as a director immediately, the board has raided the Seven Network for its CEO. Plus, other media tidbits from around the globe.
Liu Xioabo’s Nobel part of a rich history of achievement
The Norwegian Nobel committee has waded into controversy again this year with the award of the peace prize to jailed Chinese human rights campaigner Liu Xiaobo. Charles Richardson takes a look at the history of this controversial award.
Why the internet should win the Nobel Peace Prize
The internet has fundamentally changed our planet, allowing us to spread outpourings of empathy and altruism throughout the world like never before. Doesn’t that deserve a Nobel nod? asks neuroscientist Jamil Zaki.
Nobel Prizes: the politics of language and literature
Who is Herta Müller, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature? English-speaking audiences are baffled, because, surprise surprise, not of all the best literature is in English. Binoy Kampmark provides some answers.
The Nobel Prize for averting future GFCs
The winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics have been announced and it’s not just noteworthy because Elinor Ostrom is the first woman to win. It’s because their work may help prevent future global recessions.
Obama’s Nobel Prize: the backlash begins
Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize win has shocked, delighted, outraged and confused the world’s punditry. Did he deserve it? Should he have turned it down? What does it mean for America? The world weighs in.
Who knew? Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Committee has awarded its annual peace prize to President Obama “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s Friday Book Review: The Land of Green Plums
Big Les Murray has been dudded again after the Nobel Prize for Literature went to Romanian-born German language poet Herta Mueller, writes Guy Rundle.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Celebrating women of science
Crikey readers nominate more female scientists who deserve Nobel prizes, debate whether Hitler was a man of God, take a punt on the next Federal election, and more.
Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the Nobelest Aussie of them all?
For the first time ever, an Australian woman, Elizabeth Blackburn, has won the Nobel Prize. So why are the Americans trying to claim her for themselves? asks Crikey intern Melanie Mahony.
Laughing in the face of science: the Ig Nobel prize
In anticipation of next week’s Nobel prizes are the Ig Nobel prizes, rewarding “research that makes you laugh and then makes you think”. This year’s winners discovered that cows with names yield more milk, why pregnant women don’t tip over and whether knuckle cracking really leads to arthritis.
The Nobel Prize field guide
Ahead of next month’s Nobel Prizes, the WSJ looks at the movers and shakers in the science world with the potential to be named as Nobel laureates.
The ten worst recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize
Good intentions aren’t the same as results, negotiations, a ceasefire and peace. David Rothkopf examines the ten most dubious recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Nobel laureates discuss capitalism’s future
Capitalism can be still be saved, if the opinion of these three Nobel-Prize winning economists is any indication.
Krugman should’ve got the Nobel Prize for journalism
Paul Krugman didn’t get the prize for his journalism. But he should have, writes Nicholas Gruen.
State of the planet
Australians are “carbon amateurs” … Green food shopping possible on a budget … Gore Nobel prize puts environment back on Democrats’ agenda … Endangered China tiger caught on camera after 30 years
Nobel Prize does not a Presidency make
In reality, the Nobel prize makes Gore even less likely to realise his dream of being US president. Psephologist Charles Richardson explains.
