Tag: Nobel Prize
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Czech Republic had a lot of significant people. They weren’t Czech
The Czech lands have produced an impressive number of scientists, writers, composers, philosophers and other intellectuals. Yet there is a historical complication that modern national narratives can easily obscure: many of the most internationally famous people born in what is now the Czech Republic were not Czech in the modern ethnic or linguistic sense. They…
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Nobel Peace Prize for the US Army? Yes and no
The Nobel Peace Prize has produced its share of controversial winners. Politicians still wage wars after receiving it. International organizations have been criticized for political bias. Even former U.S. President Barack Obama received the prize before many of his most important foreign policy decisions had unfolded. Yet one proposal sounds so absurd that most people…
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Czech culture cannot make it big in science
I remember days when top Czech scientists were denying the Global warming on one Czech scientific website. And here we go. Why the Czech website? Because Czech scientists sometimes struggle with English. You don’t need Czech language to understand scientific news. Czech culture just cannot make it large in scientific fields. Bad governance: Bad top…
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Scholars and politicians as the same. Disgusting academia
They are so innocent and do everything to improve humankind’s well-being. Unlike dirty, corrupt, lying, and self-centered, egomaniacal, narcissistic politicians, they are devoid of these characteristics. I want to prove it wrong. Scholars and politicians are on the same level. Academia is not only a world just like showmen have (with their own rules), but…
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Lesser evil: Definitely USA, not China or Russia
Imperial ambitions, massive hard and soft power, leverage everywhere you go. Good science is about to be made in our country, not elsewhere. Either we economically (thus politically) contain you or we leave you in eternal internal turmoil. It is our currency that should dominate the world. We ensure that technological superiority is ours by…