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Fri. 10/08 - Is The Nobel Prize Bad For Science?

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The winners of the Nobel Peace Prize have been announced! As well as the winners in Chemistry and Literature. More on each winner, as well as a question about whether we really need the Nobel Prize. Plus, the remnants of the oldest Black church in the US have been uncovered in Colonial Williamsburg. And a Google AI has recreated famous works of art by Gustav Klimt that were lost in World War II. Sponsors: Novo, BankNovo.com/kottke Links: Maria Ressa is only the 18th woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in its 126-year history. (NY Times) The Nobel Peace Prize 2021 - Press release (Nobel Prize)  Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov win Nobel Peace Prize (Washington Post) Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Scientists for Creating a Tool to Build Molecules (NY Times) Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the 2021 Nobel prize in literature (The Guardian) The flaws in the Nobel Prizes in medicine, physics, chemistry, and economics (Vox)  Why COVID vaccines didn't win a science Nobel this year (Nature) Remnants of Black church uncovered in Colonial Williamsburg (AP) Colonial Williamsburg Project Unearths Foundation of First Baptist Church (NY Times) The Quest to Unearth One of America's Oldest Black Churches (Wired, 2020) Google used AI to recreate Gustav Klimt paintings burned by Nazis (Mashable) Klimt vs. Klimt (Google Arts & Culture) 'The case remains open': FBI rebuts claim Zodiac Killer case is solved (NBC News) 'Hot Garbage': Zodiac Expert Calls 'Bulls---' on Possible ID of Infamous Serial Killer (Rolling Stone) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Jackson Bird today.

0:42.6

The winners of the Nobel Peace Prize have been announced, as well as the winners in chemistry and literature.

0:49.3

More on each winner, as well as a question about whether we really need the Nobel Prize.

0:55.6

Plus, the remnants of the oldest black church in the U.S. have been uncovered in Colonial Williamsburg.

1:02.9

And a Google AI has recreated famous works of art by Gustav Klimt that were lost in World War II.

1:12.5

Here are some of the cool things from the news today. The winners of the Nobel Peace Prize were announced this morning,

1:20.4

and we also learned the winners of the Literature and Chemistry Prizes over the last few days.

1:26.1

The prize in Economic Sciences is still to come this

1:29.2

Monday, but here's everyone else who has won thus far. Earlier this week, I told you more about the

1:34.6

work of the winners of medicine and physics, David Julius and Artem Pataputian for medicine,

1:40.0

and Suyukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselman, and Giorgio Perisi for physics.

1:45.0

So go back and listen to Tuesday's episode if you want to learn more about them.

1:49.1

But on Wednesday, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Benjamin List and David W.C. McMillan

1:56.0

for their work on a tool to build molecules.

1:59.9

Quoting The York Times, their work has spurred advances

2:02.7

in pharmaceutical research and allowed scientists to construct catalysts with considerably

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