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    Science or Scientists in the Spotlight? A Wandering Scientist Asks

    Science or Scientists in the Spotlight? A Wandering Scientist Asks

    Every October the Nobel prizes are announced in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics. These prizes are subsequently awarded in ceremonies that take place on December 10, the birthday anniversary of Alfred Nobel, after whom the prizes are named. Having amassed a substantial fortune from his many investments and inventions, most famous of which was dynamite, Nobel stipulated in his will that the vast majority of his fortune would be used to give prizes
    Where Are We Going? A Wandering Scientist Asks

    Where Are We Going? A Wandering Scientist Asks

    This is the blog of a wandering scientist. "Wandering" because we are all wanderers, living on top of a planet called Earth, moving through infinite space. "Planet" comes from the Greek, it means "the wanderer, the one that moves in the sky." The ancients thought the planets move, as they apparently move on the sphere of the sky above us, while the stars, which they named "non-wanderers", or immovable, were not moving--on the sky. Today we know that everything moves through i
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