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Wink Chosen to Receive Noble Piece Prize
Phil Shapiro writes "Wink, a beautifully written free program for creating Flash-format animated tutorials has been chosen to receive a Noble Piece Prize, the prize that honors the craftsmanship of Alfred Noble, who worked at the Jacquard Loom factory in France. Previous winners of this prize include the Digital Bicycle web site."
How does this relate to Alfred Noble, what the heck is a Nobel Piece Prize, and what makes Wink so great?
All joking beside (peace/piece), Wink is a great utility and is a must download. It's great for creating tutorials on how to do things on computers.
"New Awards To Compete With Nobel Prizes"0 3/1712250
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/
Are these two stories, Nobel Prizes/Noble Piece Prize, appearing the same day a coincidence? I think not.
The Biggest Lie Of Science:
"The Piece Prize will be waiting for you backstage after you give your conference paper."
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It took you that long? The prize seems to have been going down hill since Le Duc Tho of North Vietnam fame, whose actions were hardly peaceful (as well as Kissinger). How about Arafat? Grandfather of modern terrorism and inventor of airplane hijacking... Embezeled nearly a billion dollars earmarked for the Palestinians for food, medical care, housing etc and proceded to foment hate (albeit with cooperation from the other side)... Peres and Rabin are not exactly peaceful either, but they won as well. Rigoberta Menchú got it, even though she was exposed a fraud working for terrorist in central america. Jimmy Carter, the guy who brokered the deal to give North Korea nuclear materials and technology when they promised not to make any bombs with it back in the 90s (ok, habitat is cool, I'll give him that). Nelson Mandela, personally tortured his political oponents, and then burned them alive via "necklacing". The Nobel Peace prize was a joke long before Wangari Maathai...
Specially with their reference to the word "dynamite" (Alfred Nobel was the inventor of dynamite).
That particular claim (if it really has been made) is a bit steep but there is a credible theory which claims that AIDS originated from polio vaccines.
The oral polio vaccine theory IMO explains quite a lot and also has evidence to back its claims. It's not just for the tinfoil hat crowd.
More here: Origins of Aids
"The second theory, the "oral polio vaccine" or "OPV" theory, has it that AIDS began after an experimental OPV that had been cultured in chimpanzee cells was given to nearly a million Africans from the Congo (DRC), Burundi and Rwanda in the latter half of the 1950s. This hypothesis is highly controversial, and is rejected by many medical scientists, (including those who prepared and administered the vaccine). There is concerted opposition to the theory from those who publish and write in Nature and Science, the world's two leading scientific journals. However, despite the fact that many of the aforesaid scientists deny it, this is the theory that is supported by most of the available historical and scientific evidence."
Maybe a bit off-topic but interesting and maybe important as well.