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	Sunday, 6 October 2002

Predictions for the 2002 Nobels. Anybody care to share their predictions for the 2002 Nobels? My personal pick for the physics prize: Ray Davis and John Bahcall for their work on the solar neutrino problem. Then in a few years time, others such as Art McDonald can win for discovering neutrino oscillations. This is analogous to the 1997 and 2001 prizes. After Bose-Einstein condensates were created in 1995, there was an obvious Nobel prize. I guessed wrongly at that point that Wieman, Cornell and Ketterle would win the prize almost immediately. I forgot to take into account that there really needed to be a prize for the work that allowed them to create BECs. So the 1997 prize went to Cohen-Tannoudji, Phillips and Chu for their laser trapping and cooling. The BEC discovery was rewarded in 2001. [David Harris: Science news] 11:14:17 AM

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Daily News: "Martha Stewart was walloped with a one-two punch this week." [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 11:11:03 AM

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Ig Nobel prizes awarded for amorous ostriches and belly button lint. The Ig Nobel prizes honour achievements that "cannot or should not be reproduced" and were presented this week in the lead up to the real Nobel prizes. This year's Ig Nobels were awarded for research into the mating habits of ostriches, belly button lint, beer foam, a computer-based automatic dog-to-human language translation device, and a washing machine for cats and dogs, among others. For a full list of winners see the Ig Nobel prize page at the Annals of Improbable Research site, my favourite science humour journal. [David Harris: Science news] 11:05:15 AM

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Japanese Proverb. "Fall seven times, stand up eight." [Rick@Leaders.net: Quotes] 10:59:58 AM

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Swiss Call a Meeting to Re-examine the Geneva Conventions. Switzerland will hold a meeting to try to update how the Geneva Conventions, rules of warfare that began 150 years ago, are applied. By The New York Times. [New York Times: International] 10:55:00 AM

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Ralph Lee, a King of the Road, Is Dead at 99. Ralph Lee, a celebrated knight-errant of the British road, died on Sept. 18 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. He was 99. By Douglas Martin. [New York Times: International] 10:51:33 AM

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"Red Dragon". Anthony Hopkins? Big deal! We've already seen the prequel to "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Hannibal" -- and it was better the first time as Manhunter. [Salon.com] 10:41:26 AM

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