Off-topic:<p>I’ve been hoping for Cormac McCarthy to win the Nobel Prize in literature for a number of years. I still think he deserves it, but I’m starting to lose hope.
I don't understand why the Nobel prize is so prestigious. It's the same with the Oscars: it's just some arbitrary committee of people somewhere that decide who wins it. It's not like your peers decide if you win. So why does anyone actually care about the award? It's prestigious because we all agree it's prestigious.
This episode from the freakonomics podcast is apt as it shows some of the inner workings of the Nobel prize selection.<p><a href="http://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-to-win-a-nobel-prize-a-new-freakonomics-radio-episode/" rel="nofollow">http://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-to-win-a-nobel-prize-a-n...</a>
Paywall. Altough I am from Sweden and I already know why.
Here is a free version: <a href="https://www.thelocal.se/20180504/no-nobel-literature-prize-in-2018-swedish-academy" rel="nofollow">https://www.thelocal.se/20180504/no-nobel-literature-prize-i...</a>
Fools! Failing to fulfill their most important duty because one member brought a lecherous boor to some of their events and may not have been impartial in the vote on some awards.<p><i>Now</i> it's <i>really</i> a scandal.