Always annoyed this time of year by media reports of a Nobel Prize in economics.
There is no Nobel Prize in economics.
The so-called "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" was funded by some banks and is given out around the time of the Nobel prizes in an attempt to capture some of the prestige of the real Nobel prizes.
Economics really is the dismal science.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was established in 1968 by the Bank of Sweden, and it was first awarded in 1969, more than 60 years after the distribution of the first Nobel Prizes. Although not technically a Nobel Prize, the Prize in Economic Sciences is
Christmas windows 🙂
I’m not much of an artist, but I do like doing these once a year.
In the latest "So This Just Happened," @kaliholloway and I talk about why Twitter's progressive userbase has been the envy of the far right for a decade and that even now under Melon Husk, reactionaries' attempts to capture lightning in a bottle have failed.
Full episode here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-just-happened-007-republicans-in-disarray/id1703405570?i=1000630441965
I'd like to think that Hubble realized this was a variable, did the math in his head, and could barely write "VAR!" with how excited he was, before running out into the Pasadena afternoon crying "EUREKA!"
This photo is the moment the scale of the Universe changed, from thousands of light years to a bare minimum of millions.
100 years ago we went from a small house among many in a vast country to a tiny pebble of sand in an incomprehensible ocean.
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