This is Nobel Prize week , and they are into day 4: Physics: Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Kraausz and Anne L'Huillier for developing a tool for observing electrons within an atom. Chemistry: Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov, who looked a little larger...quantum dot nanoparticles. Literature: Jon Fosse, for his innovative plays and prose, giving voice to the unsayable. Physiology/Medicine: Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman did the fundamental mRNA research to develop the Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines. Note their wearing masks. 15 Craigside now has an outbreak, so even though the pandemic is over, there is still danger today. Working together at the University of Pennsylvania in the early 2000s, they showed it was possible to dampen the body's inflammatory responses to labmade mRNAs by making specific chemical changes to the component bases of the molecules. Said Anthony Fauci, this is a wonderful choice of Nobel Prize ...
New SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for PLANET EARTH AND HUMANITY: This blog site derives from the original version of Planet Earth & Humanity, but will be more WE than ME. The coverage will remain similar, but perhaps these postings will seem to come from a parallel universe, or maybe even Purgatory. But truth and reality will prevail, with dashes of whimsy and levity to help make your day.