I am up to my eyeballs in crocodiles right now so little time now to compose my thoughts. My "TO LIST" is expanding more rapidly than my "DONE" list. You know the story.

So post away in the meantime with your thoughts. The reason I titled this Nobel Prize rather than Nobel Peace Prize is that while the peace prize seems to consistently through recent decades to be more controversial than the others scientists with significant contributions have been overlooked for some of the other prizes.

I would like to discuss this in the broad sense. I know that Obama is currently the controversy of the day but he is not my focus. I intended for this thread to discuss the Nobel Prize; it is not my intent to be a political discussion but some of the people happen to be politicians. I believe that we can have a civilized discussion of political figures without politics being the central focus.

I know that there will disagreement in this discussion and that is fine. In fact I look forward to it. On other communities I have posted/read thread that were controversial and at times people discussed facts or thoughts that I had not considered and they changed my thinking. In my opinion that is the benefit of debate.

I'll be back soon (I hope).