Fri. 10/08 - Is The Nobel Prize Bad For Science?

The winners of the Nobel Peace Prize have been announced! As well as the winners in Chemistry and Literature. More on each winner, as well as a question about whether we really need the Nobel Prize. Plus, the remnants of the oldest Black church in the US have been uncovered in Colonial Williamsburg. And a Google AI has recreated famous works of art by Gustav Klimt that were lost in World War II.

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• Maria Ressa is only the 18th woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in its 126-year history. (NY Times)
• The Nobel Peace Prize 2021 - Press release (Nobel Prize) 
• Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov win Nobel Peace Prize (Washington Post)
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Scientists for Creating a Tool to Build Molecules (NY Times)
• Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the 2021 Nobel prize in literature (The Guardian)
• The flaws in the Nobel Prizes in medicine, physics, chemistry, and economics (Vox) 
• Why COVID vaccines didn't win a science Nobel this year (Nature)
• Remnants of Black church uncovered in Colonial Williamsburg (AP)
• Colonial Williamsburg Project Unearths Foundation of First Baptist Church (NY Times)
• The Quest to Unearth One of America's Oldest Black Churches (Wired, 2020)
• Google used AI to recreate Gustav Klimt paintings burned by Nazis (Mashable)
• Klimt vs. Klimt (Google Arts & Culture)
• 'The case remains open': FBI rebuts claim Zodiac Killer case is solved (NBC News)
• 'Hot Garbage': Zodiac Expert Calls 'Bulls---' on Possible ID of Infamous Serial Killer (Rolling Stone)
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• Jackson Bird on Twitter

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