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Faulkner’s Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature

"There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat."
 

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Theoretician of the synapse, and incredible medical illustrator.
 

Babel’s Nobel

A number of statistical approaches to the history of the Nobel Prize, centered on the languages written in by the winners.