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Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Post by toomuchtodo »

dheera wrote: post #19
dekhn wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basically, the announcement is a secret until it happens. It happens at a specific time, in Sweden, and they attempt to contact the winners at that time with a personal call ( https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/the-nobel-call/ ). My cynical side suggests it's done mostly to generate PR. See also: https://worldneurologyonline.com/article/receiving-the-call-... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/04/scien…

I put my phone in airplane mode at night. Don't a lot of people do that? What are they thinking?

Don’t iPhones put themselves into do not disturb mode at night? I hope the Nobel folks call twice in 3 minutes!

Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Post by jopsen »

dheera wrote: post #19
dekhn wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basically, the announcement is a secret until it happens. It happens at a specific time, in Sweden, and they attempt to contact the winners at that time with a personal call ( https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/the-nobel-call/ ). My cynical side suggests it's done mostly to generate PR. See also: https://worldneurologyonline.com/article/receiving-the-call-... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/04/scien…

I put my phone in airplane mode at night. Don't a lot of people do that? What are they thinking?

I'm sure people like Sheldon Cooper has a calendar event and stays awake by phone when the awards are announced, hehe :)

Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Post by lstamour »

dekhn wrote: post #13
eindiran wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jokes aside, why is it so important that they reach him at 2:15 AM and can't wait until the next morning?

Basically, the announcement is a secret until it happens. It happens at a specific time, in Sweden, and they attempt to contact the winners at that time with a personal call ( https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/the-nobel-call/ ). My cynical side suggests it's done mostly to generate PR. See also: https://worldneurologyonline.com/article/receiving-the-call-... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/04/scien…

Also https://www.rd.com/article/what-its-like-notify-nobel-prize-...

Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Post by dekhn »

dheera wrote: post #19
dekhn wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basically, the announcement is a secret until it happens. It happens at a specific time, in Sweden, and they attempt to contact the winners at that time with a personal call ( https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/the-nobel-call/ ). My cynical side suggests it's done mostly to generate PR. See also: https://worldneurologyonline.com/article/receiving-the-call-... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/04/scien…

I put my phone in airplane mode at night. Don't a lot of people do that? What are they thinking?

A lot of phone behavior has changed since this tradition got started. When it did, people typically had a landline in their bedroom, which seldom rang at night.

Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Post by eindiran »

lstamour wrote: post #23
dekhn wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basically, the announcement is a secret until it happens. It happens at a specific time, in Sweden, and they attempt to contact the winners at that time with a personal call ( https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/the-nobel-call/ ). My cynical side suggests it's done mostly to generate PR. See also: https://worldneurologyonline.com/article/receiving-the-call-... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/04/scien…

Also https://www.rd.com/article/what-its-like-notify-nobel-prize-...

This is a very interesting article and I think it points to the main reason its so important to reach the winners:

> If, like Saul Perlmutter (Physics, 2011), you live in California and the call comes, unanswered, in the middle of the night, then it could be the television news vans outside your house that alert you of your prize.

Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Post by DaiPlusPlus »

walrus01 wrote: post #7

this kind of reads like an astroturfed advertisement for "ring" / "nest" type doorbells and security cameras.

I'm sure that's unintentional - don't blame the university, but I'm sure Nest and Ring anticipated their network of cameras worldwide to generate enough notable videos of unusual or funny antics that would be shared, so they shove their logo on their videos.

Some people claim you can have the watermarked logo removed but you have to contact Google/Nest directly. I'm going to do that right now (I have 5 cameras... which I bought a week before Google announced they were locking-down the Nest ecosystem and web-service, so I now refuse to buy any more Nest products and I recommend Ubiqiti gear instead now - Ubiqiti have everything Nest does except a thermostat and smoke detector (but they do have a temperature sensor product ("mFI-THS") - and an adapter to bridge any RS-232 connected device ("mPort"), so you could attach an RS-232 controllable thermostat that way - it just wouldn't be as sexy as Nest's giant metal knob).

Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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Post by peterburkimsher »

The thread says:

The #NobelPrize committee couldn't reach Paul Milgrom to share the news that he won, so his fellow winner and neighbor Robert Wilson knocked on his door in the middle of the night. When Robert Wilson rang Paul Milgrom's doorbell at 2:15 this morning, Milgrom's wife, who's in Stockholm, received a security-camera notification on her phone. She got to watch live as Wilson told Milgrom he'd won the #NobelPrize.

The most funny comment on it, in my opinion is:

- Knock, knock

- Who’s there?

- Nobel

- Nobel who?

- No bell - that’s why I knocked.

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