Upon his death...

[RoeVWade]

"Upon his death, Nobel donated his fortune to a foundation to fund the Nobel Prizes, which annually recognize those who "conferred the greatest benefit to humankind".

Okay, I'm counting on that Wikipedia quote to be correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel

Lord have mercy, Donald Trump is not even in the ballpark. Not in the city that ballpark is in. Not in the Universe.

I hope this settles that.

[SheltieLover]

1. Is there a negative Nobel?

[RoeVWade]

2. Heck, I would give it to Zelinsky before Trump, and Zelinsky hasn't even ended a war. But he's actually done more

for freedom and human spirit than Trump has, just by his character. And yet he is also flawed.

Who wants to make Trump's values and character the grand benefit of mankind?

[SheltieLover]

3. Zelenskyy is a saint compared to kranov in every way, imo.

[usonian]

4. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite.

He arguably wanted to expiate that, but it seems to have caused many more deaths than mountains turned to molehills.

There is the annual Darwin award

The Darwin Awards are a rhetorical tongue-in-cheek honor that originated in Usenet newsgroup discussions around 1985. They recognize individuals who have supposedly contributed to human evolution by selecting themselves out of the gene pool by dying or becoming sterilized by their own actions.

Wikipedia.

Don't see any winners since 2022.
https://darwinawards.com/

and the Ig Nobel Prize.

Put simply, it’s a way to award the sillier side of science. Prizes have been gifted for research into why scientists like to lick rocks, evolutionary theories into why beards were developed to avoid being punched, and detailed plans into how to best transport a rhino.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize

Latest winners.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/ig-nobel-prize-2024