Pachelbelled out and Nobel prize for Maths

Found a t-shirt which I thought Mia would like. Do you want me to get it Kate?













For those of you who have been overexposed to Pachelbel's Canon in D, here are some links you might like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uISuvTiTYJA

Also, had to vent and get this out. My frenemy, Penny (mother of Emma's friend) has always struck me as a bit of an ignorant, Asian-phobic (her kids are not the brightest) insular mid-Western American stereotype at its worst, and her favorite anecdote for putting down Asian nerds is this.

Why is that despite consistently winning international math competitions (designed for testing creative math solutions, but I doubt she would know that), Singapore has never won a Nobel prize for math?

Apart from the fact that Singapore has a population the size of LA, and Nobel prize winners are from all over Europe and America where they are more likely to have Nobel nominating connections, there ISN'T a Nobel Prize for maths. I think her point is that Asians are not creative because they don't indulge in imaginary play enough as they spend too much time learning facts and don't know how to think outside the box. Which is ironic really because you are talking about a race that invented the compass, gunpowder, paper, chopsticks, acupuncture, feng shui, medicine, MSG, Peking Duck, potstickers, dim sum, Tai Chi, Karate, gourmet cuisine, etc. (OK, I know it was over a long period of time and there are a lot of us, but still)

The next time she tells me this (she's already done it twice), I'm just going to ask her this...

Why despite consistently winning International math competitions, has Singapore never won a Nobel prize for math?

Because there isn't one...

btw - I guess David wasn't thrilled about his gay picture being posted on the web because he hadn't met some of you and you wouldn't know how very masculine he is in real life.