A newspaper should hire me to be that guy whose only job is to write titles and headlines. I can make them as misleading and sensationalist as the best of 'em!
But really, this year's Nobel Prize for Physics is going to Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg for the invention of Giant Magnetoresistance. And yes, one of the many thingamajigs that uses this technology is iPod. But it makes for such a cool headline....
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Physics 2007
Fert and Grunberg, for Giant Magnetoresistance. People have been calling for this for years.
Having gotten that silly Medicine business out of the way, the Swedish Academy has moved on to the important Award, with the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics going to Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance.
By popular request, I'm moving the links below the fold. Click "Read on" to find a wealth of links to Nobel Prize information, colorful bunnies, and early basketball information.
Well yes it was a joke. But it was based on the inappropriate manner in which the well-known work on lateral transfer was reported by New Scientist as showing that Darwin was wrong.
I almost shredded the paper this morning when I had to read through 4/5th of the article to find out what the Nobel prize was actually awarded for. Ipod was mentioned several times in the first 4/5ths of the article.
Very true.