So, About the Nobel Prize...

After reading the title, you probably thought that I, like everyone else, was going to spout my opinion about Al Gore's Peace Prize. If you did, you thought totally wrong.

I always thought it was cool that my adviser's adviser was a Nobel Prize winner* in physics, but now my husband has one-upped me. In grad school, he worked with Leo Hurwicz, who just won the Nobel Prize in economics.

Turns out our family uses a variant of Hurwicz' "king-for-a-day" economic theory for our weekly dinner out. We take turns choosing where we go out to eat, which works out well. You might think that the "king-for-a-day" might abuse their power to pick, but not so. Even as small children, the boys realized they ought to keep the others happy - the others will be "king" soon and might retaliate. (Now that they are more mature, I think they have come to the realization that they actually care.) Also, if we tried to come to a concensus each week on where to eat, we would all go insane, and perhaps starve before we had it worked out.

Ok, I exaggerate a bit, but if Leo Hurwicz can keep peace at the Vogel Dinner Out, I'd say he deserves the Peace Prize as well!

OK, so maybe you were right, just a little bit.

_{*Aage Bohr, whose father was my hero, Niels Bohr, himself}