That Nobel time of year

The Nobel Prizes start getting awarded next week, so now is the time to make your predictions in a contest to win an iPad2. I'm afraid, though, I've already got a lock on it: I'm predicting that Walt Brown and Bob Enyart, the most brilliant scientific minds ever, are going to win it this year.

There is a Nobel for inanity, isn't there?

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