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En av finaste sakerna som finns i början av december, varje år, är förväntan på nobelfest och att lära sig om alla nobelpristagare.

Särskilt i en värld där det verkar som om respekten för kunskapen verkar gå förlorad, vi borde ära och festa ännu mer kärleken till kultur och vetenskap.

Har precis kollat litteraturprissporträttet av Han Kang, passande efter idags Sydkorea händelserna
svtplay.se/video/KVk3W25/nobel
#HanKang #nobel2024

SVT PlayNobel: Porträtten – LitteraturprisporträttetMöt författaren Han Kang i hennes hemstad Seoul. Hon är en av Sydkoreas mest lästa och hyllade författare och översatt till 27 språk. Framgångarna kröntes med årets Nobelpris i litteratur. Men bakom succén finns en personlig historia av existentiellt mörker, svartlistning och familjetragedier. Reporter: Ann-Linn Guillou.

I'm not a booster of #AI, though not as anti as many here (it's a fun toy with severe limitations, plus ChatGPT is helpful for writing regex) but here's a really good use for it:

rsc.org/news-events/articles/2

In a past life I was a biologist (I guess a cell biologist, or a biochemist in the loose sense), though not a structural biologist. Predicting protein tertiary structures with decent accuracy is massive!

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In that light, here's my suggestion: After honoring Roger Penrose last year, who, don't get me wrong, certainly deserved any prestigious award, he's still much more of a mathematician, so something like the Fields Medal might have been much more fitting, even back when he was young enough to fit their profile. But nevermind, Ed Witten got that one, one of the most intimidating theoretical pysicists you might imagine, and not a mathematician.

So this is the second year in a row where the Nobel for physics didn't go to a physicist. Maybe the reason is simply that physicists have stopped making progress. There is just nothing to award for, so of course the commitee reached out to adjacent professions. It's either that or not award the prize at all!

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“Although the economics discipline has evolved over time to acknowledge environmental risks and costs, it has yet to rise to the challenge of climate change. A problem as massive as this one will require a fundamental reconsideration of some of the field's most deeply held assumptions.”

heatmap.news/economy/nobel-pri

Heatmap News · Nobelist Daron Acemoglu Has Thoughts About Climate ChangeBy Matthew Zeitlin

Parmi les trois économistes néo-institutionnalistes récompensés cette année par la Banque de Suède (en mémoire à Alfred Nobel), James Robinson (UChicago) a publié dans les #AnnalesHSS un article revisitant l'Etat britannique au 18e siècle, avec l'historien Steven Pincus

👉 doi.org/10.1353/ahs.2016.0036
👉 shs.cairn.info/revue-annales-2
👉 (in English) doi.org/10.1017/S2398568217000

Cambridge CoreFaire la guerre et faire l ’État | Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales | Cambridge CoreFaire la guerre et faire l ’État - Volume 71 Issue 1