When I heard that Mr. Gore had won the Nobel, my thoughts wandered to the younger Mr. Bush and to Rudolph Giuliani, who is leading the current field of Republican presidential candidates.
Mr. Pipkin, who founded the Nobelity Project, a humanitarian organization composed of Nobel laureates and other thought leaders who raise awareness of global issues, will present Mr. Kristofferson, 76, the Willie Nelson Feed the Peace Award on Sunday.
Alfred Nobel thought dynamite would be remembered for its peaceful purposes.
After hearing the wonderful news this week that Alice Munro was named the thirteenth female Nobel laureate in literature, my thoughts turned toward another Canadian writer and master of the short story, Mavis Gallant.
By Erin Overbey October 11, 2013 After hearing the wonderful news this week that Alice Munro was named the thirteenth female Nobel laureate in literature, my thoughts turned toward another Canadian writer and master of the short story, Mavis Gallant.
Nobel laureate Edmund S. Phelps took Gordon's thought process even further in the New York Times when he commented that less innovation has widened inequality in the United States.
In his best-selling 2011 book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman hypothesized that thinking could be broken down into two distinct processes — aptly named fast and slow thought.
Errors in judgment are perhaps most evident in decisions regarding money, notably in terms of an illogical aversion to loss — an insight that upended the "rational-agent model" of economic thought and earned Kahneman a Nobel prize.
Half a century ago, the Nobel laureate economist Wassily Leontief posed a thought experiment in which the economy was so productive that there remained only a single human worker, and her job was to flip the switch.
This is a report from the frontier of cosmic thought, as fresh as last month's Nobel Prizes, uncompromising in its intellectual ambitions and discerning in its choice of compelling scientific issues.
