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☆ What the Nobel Prizes get wrong about science
  + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +9 min
Peter Brzezinski, the secretary of the committee for the Nobel chemistry prize, said there were no plans to change the rule. He said the Nobel Prize committees, at least for science prizes, are “innately conservative.”DiversityOther criticism leveled at the Nobel Prizes includes the lack of diversity among winners. Of course, these flaws and gaps only matter because the Nobels are far better known than other science prizes, Rees added. The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine will be announced on Monday, followed by the physics prize on Tuesday and the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday. The Nobel Prize for literature and the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Thursday and Friday, respectively.
Persons: Alfred Nobel, Martin Rees, Rees, ”, Jonathan Nackstrand, Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, Kip Thorne, David Pendlebury, “ Nobel, ” Pendlebury, Nobel’s, Peter Brzezinski, “, ” Brzezinski, John Jumper, AlphaFold, Lasker, Pendlebury, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer Doudna, it’s, Carolyn Bertozzi, Andrea Ghez, Naomi Oreskes, Henry Charles Lea, ” Rees Organizations: CNN, Royal Society, Getty, Clarivate’s Institute for Scientific, Nobel Foundation, Academy, Google, Harvard University Locations: Swedish, AFP, Stockholm
☆ This Myth About Innovation May Have Doomed OceanGate’s Titan Submersible - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Naomi Oreskes | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
In Mr. Rush’s telling, innovation was the province of maverick individuals, not stodgy legacy players and certainly not cumbersome government bureaucracies. That story is often wrong, and it was 100 percent wrong in this case. Realizing this could be a powerful military communications tool, they worked with the U.S. Navy to develop technologies that exploited this sound channel. As its name suggests, Aluminaut was developed with the Reynolds Metals Company, one of the largest aluminum companies in the world. What the Navy and Woods Hole were not willing to do, however, was to risk lives.
Persons: Rush’s, Rush, SOSUS, Alvin, Aluminaut, James Mavor Jr Organizations: United, Oceanographic Institution, U.S . Navy, U.S . Office, Naval Research, U.S . Navy Bureau of Ships, Reynolds Metals Company, Navy Locations: Silicon Valley, America, United States
☆ Exxon Mobil accurately predicted warming since 1970s, study finds
  + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +7 min
This was during the same time that the oil giant publicly doubted that warming was real and dismissed climate models’ accuracy. Exxon said its understanding of climate change evolved over the years and that critics are misunderstanding its earlier research. The Exxon-funded science was “actually astonishing” in its precision and accuracy, said study co-author Naomi Oreskes, a Harvard science history professor. And I’d say in that sense, our analysis really seals the deal on ‘Exxon knew’,” Supran said. “It was clear that Exxon Mobil knew what was going on,” Wuebbles said.
☆ Exxon predicted global warming with remarkable accuracy years ago, study shows
  + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
"We now have airtight, unimpeachable evidence that ExxonMobil accurately predicted global warming years before it turned around and publicly attacked climate science and scientists. Our findings show that ExxonMobil's public denial of climate science contradicted its own scientists' data," Supran told CNBC. They were surprised to discover is the extent and accuracy of Exxon's knowledge of climate science. That gave me pause, seeing quantitatively that Exxon didn't just know some climate science, they helped advance it," Supran told CNBC. "They didn't just vaguely know 'something' about global warming decades ago, they knew as much as independent academic and government scientists did.
☆ Big Oil has engaged in a long-running climate disinformation campaign while raking in record profits
  + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( René Marsh | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +7 min
CNN —Big Oil companies have engaged in a “long-running greenwashing campaign” while raking in “record profits at the expense of American consumers,” the Democratic-led House Oversight Committee has found after a year-long investigation into climate disinformation from the fossil fuel industry. The committee found the fossil fuel industry is “posturing on climate issues while avoiding real commitments” to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Lawmakers said it has sought to portray itself as part of the climate solution, even as internal industry documents reveal how companies have avoided making real commitments. Many of their requests for internal documents were heavily redacted by the companies, which did not specify reasons for withholding the information. “These companies know their climate pledges are inadequate but are prioritizing Big Oil’s record profits over the human costs of climate change,” Maloney said.
☆ Why Silicon Valley is so hot on nuclear energy and what it means for the industry
  + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +13 min
Pallava Bagla | Corbis News | Getty ImagesVenture capitalists in Silicon Valley and other tech hubs are investing money in nuclear energy for the first time in history. This surge of private investment will be a positive for the industry, agrees John Parsons, an economist and lecturer at MIT. Nuclear energy is "a very complex science, and it's been supported by the federal government and at these national labs. In the 1960s and 1970s, large conglomerates constructed big nuclear power plants, and those projects often ran over budget. New generations of nuclear reactors will have different sizes, different coolants and different fuels, explained Matt Crozat, senior director of policy development at the Nuclear Energy Institute.
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