Tag: NOBELPRIZE

It almost feels that WikiLeaks' nomination for a Nobel Peace Prize was inevitable. The site's focus on transparency and exposing corruption and human rights abuse, as well as its knack for stirring up controversy, seems tailored to draw the attention of the Nobel Prize Committee. After announcing that WikiLeaks had been nominated, Snorre Valen, a member of the Norwegian parliament, called the site ...

The Chinese government's offensive against supporters of political dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo apparently knows no bounds. After having already placed Liu's wife and friends on house arrest, the government has now turned its attention to Twitter. According to the Guardian, freelance designer Mou Yanxi was reportedly targeted by Chinese police after posting a tweet about ...

The world was abuzz today with news that jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo had won the Nobel Peace Prize. Except in China, that is, where the country's censors were working overtime to expunge his name from all media. It's not enough that state owned news station and papers won't report on Xiaobo's win, the country is also blacking out commercial stations like CNN during segments in which they ...

Word on the street is that soon-to-be-president Barack Obama has chosen another smart guy to surround himself with. Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who runs Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has been named Energy Secretary. Chu is an experimental physicist, known for his research in laser cooling and trapping of atoms. Here's a quote the New York Times dug up, which Chu ...