Nobel Prize

Gerald · 10-08-20, 06:16 AM

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The Swedish Academy has chosen the American poet Louise Glück, citing her ‘unmistakable poetic voice’

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The poet Louise Glück has become the first American writer to win the Nobel prize for literature in 27 years.

Glick, cited for “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”, is the 16th woman to win the Nobel, and the first American since Toni Morrison took the prize in 1993.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...-in-literature

Gerald · 10-09-20, 07:02 AM

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The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) for its efforts to combat hunger.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee said the WFP had acted "as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict".

The prize is worth 10m Swedish krona ($1.1m; £872,600).

The WFP, the 101st winner of the prize, said it was "deeply humbled".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-54476569

Aktungbby · 10-09-20, 02:08 PM

'Twixt our Ghez and our Glück we're holdin'our own in Stoclholm! :Kaleun_Applaud

The considerable prize used to be tax free IRS-wise until 1986, (a $eriou$ "black hole"

)but I fear that's no longer the case.

President Obama, regarded by Trump as a "black hole", avoided the whole issue by regifting his prize to avoid the 'hole issue'! I doubt his Covidship, morally and financily bankrupt, and a three-time nominee in his own right(for love letters to N. Korea's 'fat boy'-yet another black hole) would "regift" anyone but but his apparently $70,000 tax deductible hair stylist, according to his heretofore hidden tax records. This has been a political black hole rant; and I approved this message!

Gerald · 10-12-20, 09:13 AM

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Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson have won the 2020 Nobel Economics Prize for their work on auction theory.

The Stanford University game theorists have helped in developing formats for the sale of aircraft landing slots, radio spectrums, and emissions trading.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said their work "benefitted sellers, buyers and taxpayers" worldwide.

Game theory uses mathematics to study decision-making, conflict, and strategy in social situations.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54509051

Jimbuna · 10-12-20, 11:25 AM

Title changed.

Aktungbby · 10-12-20, 11:42 AM

JEEZE! I'll have to "bone up" on ''auction theory " B 4 I bid on EBay

August · 10-12-20, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

I doubt his Covidship, morally and financily bankrupt, and a three-time nominee in his own right(for love letters to N. Korea's 'fat boy'-yet another black hole) would "regift" anyone but but his apparently $70,000 tax deductible hair stylist, according to his heretofore hidden tax records. This has been a political black hole rant; and I approved this message!

Trump has "regifted" every single one of his quarterly presidential paychecks to one of the following agencies; the National Park Service, the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the Department of Homeland Security. Not a hairdresser among them.

On the other hand your boy Obama kept his pay. Guess he needed it for his plush post presidency gig on Marthas Vineyard right?

It's amazing what you can buy with just a couple hundred grand a year salary...

Aktungbby · 10-13-20, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by August

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your boy Obama

You crusty old not PC Republican honkey !? Jus' who U callin' " boy" anyhoo?

Both Washington and Kennedy, incl. His Congressional salary, declined their Federal compensation(s). To his credit, the Donald has lived up to his campaign promise not to accept his pay...

now if he'll stop tweeting and let his blond hair go a little grey I'll even vote for him. I prefer a candidate on Viagra to one needing Aricept and debate teleprompters!

Platapus · 10-14-20, 06:41 AM

I think the US politics discussion thread is over there ------------>

August · 10-14-20, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

I think the US politics discussion thread is over there ------------>

Well we were talking about a three time Nobel prize nominee but since when has the Nobel prize not been political? You can't deny that they gave it to the last president for purely political reasons.

10-09-20, 02:08 PM	#3
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,052 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Hail to the Nobel Krona 'Twixt our Ghez and our Glück we're holdin'our own in Stoclholm! :Kaleun_Applaud The considerable prize used to be tax free IRS-wise until 1986, (a $eriou$ "black hole")but I fear that's no longer the case. President Obama, regarded by Trump as a "black hole", avoided the whole issue by regifting his prize to avoid the 'hole issue'! I doubt his *Covidship, morally and financily bankrupt, and a three-time nominee in his own right(for love* letters to N. Korea's 'fat boy'-yet another black hole) would "regift" anyone but but his apparently $70,000 tax deductible hair stylist, according to his heretofore hidden tax records. This has been a political black hole rant; and I approved this message! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!! Last edited by Aktungbby; 10-09-20 at 02:32 PM.

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,788 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Title changed. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,052 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	JEEZE! I'll have to "bone up" on ''auction theory " B 4 I bid on EBay __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,388 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	I think the US politics discussion thread is over there ------------> __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.