Re:Let's get Salman Khan (khanacademy.org) on the TED stage
by arvinjoar on Monday October 04, 2010 @10:37AM
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This is exactly it. I have been trying to tell people that the Nobel Peace Prize is not the "Awesome Person" prize. Nobel was very clear on what a person had to have been working on before receiving the prize.
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Re:Let's get Salman Khan (khanacademy.org) on the TED stage
by zumda on Monday October 04, 2010 @10:53AM
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In the words of Alfred Nobel: "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses". [1]
Apparently, for some strange reason, someone nominated Adolf Hitler, too. Now I learned at least something today.
[1] http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/shortfacts.html