Tag: Nobel Prize 2017
Economist who helped behavioral ‘nudges’ go mainstream wins Nobel
Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University
The 2017 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to University of Chicago’s Richard Thaler for his work in...
The ‘inevitable sadness’ of Kazuo Ishiguro’s fiction
Cynthia F. Wong, University of Colorado Denver
On a damp October day in 2006, I followed Kazuo Ishiguro and my 10-year-old daughter Grace to a...
Chilled proteins and 3-D images: The cryo-electron microscopy technology that just...
Melanie Ohi, University of Michigan and Michael Cianfrocco, University of Michigan
Many people will never have heard of cryo-electron microscopy before the announcement that Jacques...
How fair is it for just three people to receive the...
Caroline Wagner, The Ohio State University
The Nobel Foundation statutes decree that “in no case” can a Nobel Prize be divided between more than three...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
