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October 5, 2016
How the Nobel Prize became the most controversial award on Earth
This is one long, long history filled with drama.
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October 12, 2015
Nobel winner Angus Deaton is very critical of foreign aid. The reality's more complicated.
Not all aid works. But some does.
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October 12, 2015
Where Nobel Prize winners were born, in one map
In the earlier days of the Nobels, the United States wasn't much of a contender.
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October 12, 2015
Read 2015 Nobel Economics Prize winner Angus Deaton's amazing take on inequality
"To worry about these consequences of extreme inequality has nothing to do with being envious of the rich and everything to do with the fear that rapidly growing top incomes are a threat to the wellbeing of everyone else."
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October 12, 2015
Angus Deaton's badly misunderstood paper on whether happiness peaks at $75,000, explained
Even Orange is the New Black got it wrong.
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October 12, 2015
The 2015 Nobel Prize for Economics winner, Angus Deaton, explained
A scholar who looked under the hood to show what's really happening.
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October 9, 2015
The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize winner, explained
This year's prize, for the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, is meant as a lesson to the world on how to resolve conflict and preserve democracy.
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October 9, 2015
All the Nobel Peace Prize winners, in one chart
Some interesting trends emerge when you look at the big picture.
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October 8, 2015
2015 Nobel Prize for literature winner Svetlana Alexievich's life and writing, explained
A brief primer on the Belarusian writer, her most famous work, and why it deserved to win.
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October 7, 2015
What the chemistry Nobel Prize winners taught us about the fragility of human life
The powerful contribution Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar made to our understanding of DNA.
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October 6, 2015
For 40 years, no one knew this woman discovered a malaria cure. Now she's won a Nobel.
A top-secret Chinese communist military project led Tu Youyou to the Nobel Prize for medicine.
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October 14, 2014
The age, sex, education, and facial hair of every Nobel Prize winner, in one chart
Everything you wanted to know, and then some.