Georgetown University is rated one of the “10 most hipster campuses.” Catholic University is home to not one, but two of the “15 best dorms in the country.” And Johns Hopkins University made a list of 25 well-regarded schools deemed “least rigorous.” Wait, really? One of the region’s most selective universities — a world-renowned research institution that warns teaching assistants about the intense competitiveness of its undergraduates and has four Nobel laureates on its faculty — is accused of not being rigorous? Read full article > >

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Number of lists ranking colleges proliferate — and some don’t make sense

Two Nobel laureates involved in creating graphine, a flat sheet of carbon just one atom thick, are among the scientists recognised in the New Year Honours.

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Knighthoods for graphene pioneers

OSLO, Norway — Three women who fought injustice, dictatorship and sexual violence in Liberia and Yemen accepted the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday, calling on repressed women worldwide to rise up against male supremacy. “My sisters, my daughters, my friends — find your voice,” Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said after collecting her Nobel diploma and medal at a ceremony in Oslo. Read full article > >

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Liberian president, women’s campaigner and Yemenite activist accept Nobel Peace Prize

The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize is presented jointly to three women at a ceremony in Oslo

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Nobel Peace Prize awarded in Oslo

If I ever had doubts that Social Security is the proverbial third rail of American politics, they were dispelled this week by readers who criticized a front-page story last Sunday on the subject by Post economic policy reporter Lori Montgomery. Paul Krugman , the Nobel Prize-winning economist and columnist for the New York Times, criticized the story in his blog, saying it was “negative journalistic value added.” Dean Baker, an economist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, said on his “Beat the Press” blog that the story “discards all journalistic standards.” And dozens of readers said the story was misleading, inaccurate and intended to sensationalize, not to analyze. Read full article > >

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Did a Social Security story go too far?

STOCKHOLM — Americans Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims won the Nobel economics prize on Monday for research that sheds light on the cause-and-effect relationship between the economy and policy instruments such as interest rates and government spending. Sargent and Sims — both 68 — carried out their research independently in the 1970s and ‘80s, but it is highly relevant today as world governments and central banks seek ways to steer their economies away from another recession. Read full article > >

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Americans Sargent, Sims share Nobel economics prize for cause-and-effect theories

The Nobel prize for chemistry has gone to a single researcher for his discovery of the structure of quasicrystals.

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A truck bomb kills dozens in Somalia’s capital; American astronomers win the Nobel Prize in physics; and Apple announces its latest iPhone.

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Three researchers are honoured with a Nobel prize in physics for their discovery that our Universe’s expansion is accelerating.

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Nobel for expanding Universe find

The Nobel Foundation says scientist Ralph Steinman will keep his Nobel prize for medicine after his death on Friday cast doubt on the award.

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Late Nobel laureate to keep award

It is a sad fact — an endlessly rehashed symbol of just what is wrong with America — that we make heroes of athletes but not mathletes, that we write comic books about men with capes but not real men with calculators, and that “Dancing With the Stars” has never tapped Andre Geim or Konstantin Novoselov, who — oh, admit it, you had to Google them — were last year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in physics. Read full article > >

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Richard Feynman, the late physicist, is hero of new graphic novel

Kenya’s Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai dies in Nairobi while undergoing cancer treatment.

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Kenya Nobel laureate Maathai dies

IVF pioneer and Nobel prize winner Robert Edwards is among several leading health specialists to be knighted in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours.

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Test-tube baby pioneer knighted

In an annoyed New York Times op-ed today, MIT professor and Nobel Prize-winning economist Peter Diamond withdrew his nomination to the Federal Reserve. Obama nominated Diamond in April 2010, and several times since, but Republicans repeatedly blocked…

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Fed Nominee: ‘Nobel Prize Isn’t Enough’

Now how about that Nobel? Philip Roth won the fourth International Man Booker Prize on Wednesday, beating out 12 other authors. The prize, meant to honor a writer’s body of work as opposed to any individual book, comes with a $100,000 purse. “One of…

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