These days, the practical baby prize goes to Lisa Brown, creator of the "Baby Be of Use" board book series.
Like Gawande, Brand prizes the practical over the ideological.
To the Editor: Law reviews may well deserve the criticism they are receiving, but the good news is that there are numerous journals that publish articles that explain, discuss and analyze real-world legal developments and that offer timely and practical advice that is prized by subscribers, like corporate counsel, lawyers in private practice and sophisticated business people.
Asghar Farhadi's thoughtful drama about the plight of a middle-class family besieged by moral and practical dilemmas, won the prize for best film, and its cast collectively won the trophies for best actor and actress.
But Germany, having given the world two of the biggest visionary malcontents — one right, the other left — and having endured the burden of efforts to realize those visions, has every reason to keep its eye on the more immediate prize of practical and positivist reconstruction.
The monolith supported-catalyst is highly prized in the practical NaBH4-based hydrogen generation system due to simple design of hydrogen generator, controllability of reaction and easy separation from the spent solution.
TOKYO--Thanks to new selection criteria that emphasize research breakthroughs with a practical impact, this year's Japan Prize is being awarded to an engineer whose work is advancing the digital age and a biologist with a strong environmental conscience.
WHEN the British government established the Longitude prize in 1714, offering a cash prize for a simple and practical way to determine the position of ships at sea, it was ahead of its time.
Goldbach's conjecture is the type of thing that moved Hardy to write his apology, for it is a problem (at least before the prize was established) of no practical use whatsoever.
Putting aside the practical problem of raising additional funds for new prizes, I believe that much of the value of the Clarke Award lies in its simplicity -- one prize, one winner -- and adding new categories will merely create additional complexity not clarity of our message.
But the Nobel Foundation is forced to look at much more such practical, applied material when it considers the economics prize.
