http://laist.com/2007/10/08/woohoo_nobel_season.php All comments for Woohoo! Nobel Season! en-us 2008 la_jessicap Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:00:00 -0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss jessicapauline@gmail.com jessicapauline@gmail.com 60 http://laist.com/2007/10/08/woohoo_nobel_season.php#comment-1215766 http://laist.com/2007/10/08/woohoo_nobel_season.php#comment-1215766 Comments Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:47:32 -0800 <p>This post makes me sad. Science doesn't have to be any more inherently mystifying than Literature or Peace (clearly, mid-east peace is quite mystifying). Actually, the combination of A) claiming total ignorance of all the science categories, while B) also assuming that Americans will win is particularly ironic. We will not continue to lead in science for much longer (if, in fact, we are still leading now) with this kind of attitude. Actually, it looks like a frog and a kraut just got the physics prize for their 1988 discovery of GIANT magnetoresistance (GMR). Who cares, you say? Their discovery made possible the ultra-miniaturized disk drives that are inside iPods. Surely somebody in LA must have an iPod? No?</p>