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cal04 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 05:38 AM Original message |
3 More Americans Win Nobels |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 05:43 AM Response to Original message |
1. Ironic that of the three "Americans", two are foreigners by birth. |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 06:33 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Why is it ironic? We've always been a nation of immigrants. Even "Native" Americans |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 10:38 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. The whole world is full of immigrants. I've even met people whose family |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 12:15 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. As you know it there are two Americas |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 12:27 PM Response to Reply #3 |
15. Not my tribe... |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 12:30 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. A lot of them are claiming things like that these days |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 12:35 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. That is exactly right... |
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knixphan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 04:42 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. yeah, as if 'pure' exists. |
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ArbustoBuster (956 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 05:12 PM Response to Reply #16 |
21. I'm an anerobic bacterium. |
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fujiyama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 12:41 AM Response to Reply #16 |
26. Part of this is also a fear and distrust |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 11:51 PM Response to Reply #3 |
23. its ironic because native born Americans aren't winning the prizes. |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 08:22 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. and what's wrong with that? |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 11:53 PM Response to Reply #4 |
24. America is not producing Nobel prize winners. Other countries are, |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 12:35 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. let me get this straight: |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-07-09 07:18 AM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Except that it is: |
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Barack_America (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 08:38 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. That's the wrong way to look at it. |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 12:13 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. That is the American educational system is not the best |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 12:25 PM Response to Reply #1 |
14. Boyle's from my neck of the woods originally; NS represent, etc.! (nt) |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 06:45 PM Response to Reply #1 |
22. One is a dual citizen - U.S. and Canadian |
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zbdent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 06:25 AM Response to Original message |
2. What??? George W. Bush hasn't won the Nobel Peace Prize yet??? |
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Barack_America (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 08:25 AM Response to Original message |
5. Woot! |
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krkaufman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 09:40 AM Response to Original message |
7. Do we have any footage of Conservatives booing this result? n/t |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
9. 3 Americans win Nobel in physics |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 12:03 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Grats to all. Our best has always been as good as anybody's.... |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 01:19 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. Of these three "Americans" -one is from Britain and one from Canada |
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Akoto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
11. Rachel Maddow mentioned last night that one of the others was fired by Bush ... |
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jeffbr (377 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 04:52 PM Response to Original message |
20. Great choices for physics this year |
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