University Suckers

Thursday, September 07, 2006

It's All About The Little Things

I saw a bumper sticker today that said "The best things in life aren't things". That statement alone brought my attention back to the fact that illogical, Kantian viewpoints are still all around us. When I first read it, this was honestly the first thing that popped into my mind.

That's right; I went there.

-I want to apologize for my lack of postings this week; I've been really flooded lately from getting back into school and all; hopefully I can find my rhythm - or sanity - back this sometime this week and start to post more abundantly than I have been as of lately.

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Maintenance

Apparently I deleted most of the html out of my template; I just dont remember when or how; I'll have all the links and everything back up to normal this afternoon after I get back from class.

-Daniel

Monday, September 04, 2006

Accomplishments? Who Cares About Those?

I ran across this little fact sheet while shuffling around the internet earlier this week. I thought that this was more than interesting:

The Global Islamic population is approximately
1,200,000,000, or 20% of the world population.


They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:

1988 - Najib Mahfooz
Peace:
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1994 - Yasser Arafat
Physics:
1990 - Elias James Corey
1999 - Ahmed Zewail
Medicine:
1960 - Peter Brian Medawar
1998 - Ferid Mourad

The Global Jewish population is approximately
14,000,000, or about 0.02% of the world population.


They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:
1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976 - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1991 - Nadine Gordimer World
Peace:
1911 - Alfred Fried
1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 - Rene Cassin
1973 - Henry Kissinger
1978 - Menachem Begin
1986 - Elie Wiesel
1994 - Shimon Peres
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin
Physics:
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck
1925 - Gustav Hertz
1943 - Gustav Stern
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 - Felix Bloch
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - Emilio Segre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 - Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
1972 - William Howard Stein
1973 - Brian David Josephson
1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978 - Peter L Kapitza
1979 - Stephen Weinberg
1979 - Sheldon Glashow
1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1988 - Leon Lederman
1988 - Melvin Schwartz
1988 - Jack Steinberger
1989 - Sidney Altman
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
1995 - Martin Perl
2000 - Alan J. Heeger
Economics:
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
1976 - Milton Friedman
1978 - Herbert A. Simon
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - Robert M. Solow
1990 - Harry Markowitz
1990 - Merton Miller
1992 - Gary Becker
1993 - Robert Fogel
Medicine:
1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
1908 - Paul Erlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 - Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936 - Otto Loewi
1944 - Joseph Erlanger
1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abra ham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 - Joshua Lederberg
1959 - Arthur Kornberg
1964 - Konrad Bloch
1965 - Francois Jacob
1965 - Andre Lwoff
1967 - George Wald
1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970 - Julius Axelrod
1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 - Howard Martin Temin
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - Daniel Nathans
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Michael Stuart Brown
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1991 - Erwin Neher
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 - Richard J. Roberts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - Alfred Gilman
1995 - Edward B. Lewis

"The Jews are not demonstrating with their dead on the
streets, yelling and chanting and asking for revenge;
the Jews are not promoting brain washing the children
in military training camps, teaching them how to blow
themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and
other non-Muslims.

The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the
Olympics; the Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have
leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the
Infidels.

The Jews don't have the economic strength of
petroleum, nor the possibilities to force the world's
media to see "their side" of the question.

Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing
more in standard education and less in blaming the
Jews for all their problems."


-I do know that the Nobel Prizes do not, in all cases, necessarily mean significant advances in literature, peace, etc. Afterall, the Marx loving, communist sympathizing, master of unreason, Jean-Paul Sartre, was offered the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964, but refused to accept it. (Maybe he thought that the award was out of man's capacity to acknowledge its existence, or some other nonsense.) Even though Nobel Prizes do not always mean that the person recieving it is doing good, I think it's pretty hard to do bad, ethically , when advancing in a hard science field such as physics, or in another scientific field, such as medicine; because they have objective facts to back their cases up, unlike the peace and literature category, which rely more so on whim(s) of the panel, which also explain how Yasser Arafat and Henry Kissinger would each wind up with one. I'm pretty sure it's safe to say that in this case, we can clearly tell who is being more productive.