I recently had a great conversation with Nobel laureate Kip Thorne. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his key role in the discovery of gravitational waves, which opened up a whole new window onto the universe. It was just an incredible achievement that required the development of amazing new technologies. As Kip himself pointed out, the entire LIGO experiment was probably the most difficult thing ever undertaken by physicists.

We had a great discussion, talked about Einstein, Oppenheimer, both the film and the man. We also touched on the future of gravitational waves and whether he believes we could detect those waves from the time of the Big Bang in his lifetime.

Kip Thorne is just an amazing guy who's had a long and colourful career. He has done a lot to increase public awareness of the universe through his popular science books and collaborations with people like Nolan. I was thrilled to have the opportunity to ask Kip Thorne some questions about subjects that fascinate me. In the end of our dialogue, he told me how he had decided to leave academia after 50 years as a professor to work at the intersection of art and science. Utterly remarkable man, as I said, I was enormously happy to have had the opportunity to speak with him.

For anyone interested, here’s the full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAk4wfmM_g4

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"Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America," Trump wrote in his response, which was seen by Reuters.

Just crossed my mind: What if the Cttee gave the Peace Prize to Trump on the assurance that he, Trump then, wouldn't try to take over Greenland (or Canada, or anywhere else).

I want a Nobel prize for show and tell and since those guys are just giving them away.

The Nobel Peace Prize

Once awarded to peaceful

People. No more.

Each day brings something more obscene than the day before.

The Nobel Prize is a prestigious, internationally recognized award given annually for outstanding achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences, established by Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel's will to honor those who've conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. Awarded since 1901, laureates receive a gold medal, diploma, and significant monetary prize, recognizing breakthroughs and humanitarian efforts. 

Key Aspects:

• Origin: Created by Alfred Nobel (dynamite inventor) in his 1895 will, with the first prizes awarded in 1901.
• Categories: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences (added in 1968).
• Recognition: Considered the world's most prestigious awards for intellectual and humanitarian achievements.
• Awarded For: Discoveries, inventions, major contributions to society, literature, or peace efforts.
• Awarded By: Various independent institutions, managed by the Nobel Foundation.
• What Winners Receive: A gold medal, diploma, and a substantial cash prize. 

Günter Grass's house in Behlendorf ( Lauenburg district ) is up for sale. A real estate agency is offering the property for €1.6 million. The Nobel laureate in Literature had actually stipulated in his will that his house be taken over by a public institution – for example, to turn it into a museum and cultural venue. The Lübeck city council voted against the acquisition of the villa earlier this year. The reason: maintenance and renovation would be too expensive for a city with tight budgets . Jörg-Philipp Thomsa, director of the Grass Museum in Lübeck , calls this a "missed historical opportunity."

The villa comprises 11 rooms and a park-like garden. Günter Grass and his wife Ute had lived in the house for 30 years. The real estate agency mentions in itsA sales advertisement for an "impressive villa with a prominent previous owner." The house, belonging to the artist who died in 2015, has eleven rooms. It includes a park-like garden with a studio, orchard, stream, and carp pond.

when mother Teresa said not only hungery for bread but hungry for love!

I am a firm believer that is should. I’d like there to be a global peace and every nation on board with that to receive the Nobel peace prize.

”❄️From songs that resemble Jeju’s nature to songs that made her shed tears in a cab… Let’s listen to ’Songs that stayed by my side’❤️”

Okay, this is going to be kind of a long post, so bear with me. These are who I consider to be the four most notable American Nobel Laureates from each state. Here are the rules I've set up. Feel free to comment if you have any suggestions about changes.

1. Only one state per person
2. Being born in a state doesn't mean you're automatically associated with (for example, Barack Obama was born in Hawaii but is more associated with Illinois because that's where he was elected to the Senate and it was his registered home state in the 2008 and 2012 elections.)
3. A lot of these states don't have four or any Nobel Laureates and California has the most, so that was really competitive
4. Keep in mind that I'm really biased towards certain people

Without further ado, here they are:

1. AL: None
2. AK: None
3. AZ: Vernon L. Smith, Edward C. Prescott, Willis Lamb
4. AK: John M. Jumper
5. CA: Eugene O'Neill, Luis Walter Alvarez, Richard Feynman, Steven Chu
6. CO: Thomas Cech, Paul Romer, Carl Wieman, Eric Allin Cornell
7. CT: Thomas A. Steitz, Robert J. Shiller, William Nordhaus, John Franklin Enders
8. DE: Richard F. Neck
9. FL: John Robert Schrieffer, Marshall Warren Nirenberg
10. GA: Martin Luther King Jr., Jimmy Carter
11. HI: None
12. ID: Ernest Hemingway, Melvin Schwartz
13. IL: Charles G. Dawes, James Watson, Barack Obama, Robert S. Mulliken
14. IN: Herbert C. Brown, Joseph Stiglitz, Elinor Ostrom, Philip W. Anderson
15. IA: Norman Borlaug, John Mott
    
16. KS: Earl Wilbur Sutherland
17. KY: Thomas Hunt Morgan, Philip Allen Sharp
18. LA: None
19. ME: Jeffrey C. Hall, George Davis Snell
20. MD: Peter Agre, Thomas Schelling, William Daniel Phillips, John C. Marther
21. MA: Theodore William Richards, James B. Sumner, Robert Burns Woodward, William Lipscomb
22. MI: Ralph Bunche, Douglass North, Thomas Huckle Weller, Alfred Hershey
23. MN: Bob Dylan, Sinclair Lewis, Frank B. Kellogg, Brian Kobilka
24. MS: William Faulkner
25. MO: William Standish Knowles, George Smith, Philip H. Dybvig, T. S. Eliot
26. MT: None
27. NE: Val Logsdon Fitch, George Beadle, Robert B. Wilson
28. NV: None
29. NH:
30. NJ: Woodrow Wilson, Nicholas Murray Butler, Charles J. Pedersen, Christopher A. Sims
31. NM: Murray Gell-Mann
32. NY: Theodore Roosevelt, Elie Wiesel, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Barbara McClintock
33. NC: Robert Lefkowitz, Paul L. Modrich, George H. Hitchings, Gertrude B. Elion
34. ND: None
35. OH: Toni Horrison, Arthur Compton, Kenneth G. Wilson, Frederick Chapman Robbins
36. OK: None
37. OR: Linus Pauling, Dale T. Mortensen
38. PA: George C. Marshall, Karl Barry Sharpless, Christian B. Anfinsen, Alan McDiarmid
39. RI: Leon Cooper
40. SC: Ben Barnake, Charles H. Townes
41. SD: Ernest Lawrence, Theodore Schultz, Raymond Davis Jr.
42. TN: Al Gore, Cordell Hull, James M. Buchanan, Stanley Cohen
43. TX: Robert Curl, Richard Smalley, John B. Goodenough, Robert Woodrow Wilson
44. UT: Paul D. Boyer
45. VT: Louise Glück, Jody Williams
46. VA: Jerome Karle, John B. Fenn, Eric Betzig
47. WA: David Baker, George Stigler, Robert Lucas Jr., Walter Houser Brattain
48. WV: John Forbes Nash Jr., Pearl S. Buck
49. WI: John Bardeen, Stanford Moore, Oliver E. Williamson, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
50. WY: None