STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded Monday to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, tiny pieces of genetic material that alter how genes work at the cellular level and could lead to new ways of treating cancer. The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute, which … Read more
He may live at the top of the charts, but nobody’s putting The Weeknd up for a Nobel Prize for literature. A new study showing a steep decline in songwriting skills over the last 40 years used folk crooner Bob Dylan’s award from the sainted Swedish institution of an example of how much music has … Read more
In many ways, Joan Baez’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame career will forever be intertwined with that of another 1960s folk legend: Bob Dylan. So what did she think when the “Blowin’ in the Wind” bard received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016? “I thought, ‘Oh, how Bob,’” Baez, 82, told the Hollywood … Read more