Prizes used to promote a policy are vulnerable to political jiggery pokery, argues Lee Davis of the Copenhagen Business School.
In 1989 Harold Varmus, having just received the medicine prize, used his to recall similar Scandinavian revels described in the epic poem "Beowulf", and to compare his research subject, cancer, to the beast Grendel: a distorted version of our normal selves.
HONG KONG Kyung-sook Shinin, the first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize, used the black-tie gala dinner in Hong Kong on Thursday to make a statement about North Korea.
The plot borrows a device Ms. Smith, a Scottish author who has been shortlisted for both the Orange and Booker prizes, used in an earlier novel, "The Accidental," in which a stranger invites herself along on a family's summer vacation.
In the nineteen-fifties, Simon Kuznets, who went on to win a Nobel Prize, used tax data to study the shares of income among groups, an approach that was further developed by the British economist Anthony Atkinson, beginning with his 1969 paper "On the Measurement of Inequality," in the Journal of Economic Theory.
Ten years ago, the Netflix Prize used data and science to change recommendation engines for the better.
From the 19th century and onwards, woolly mammoth ivory became a highly prized commodity, used as raw material for many different products.
Simpson, who has also been nominated for this year's Deutsche Börse photography prize, uses still images often accompanied by texts, film and drawing.
The other is an array of pulsed-plasma thrusters which heat and evaporate a material to produce a charged gas to push the satellite along.NASA has plans to offer a $5m prize using a six-unit CubeSat for groups to demonstrate ways both to communicate across large distances and display the effective use of unconventional propellants.
To encourage the use of receipts, the government held lotteries for prizes using receipts as lottery tickets.Whatever governments do, the combined effects of information technology and globalisation are likely to make it easier for businesses to hide in the shadows in future.
Let's run through a typical example, level-by-level … On the ground floor: endless rows of what the Japanese call "UFO grabbers" – those familiar fairground games in which you make a doomed attempt to grab an underwhelming prize using a mechanised claw.
