Weekly Filet #87: How to Snatch a Nobel Prize. And more.
This week's top recommendation
So the European Union just got their Nobel Peace Prize. That comes as a bit of a surprise. Here's why: The EU is neither American, nor did it study in Harvard. It doesn't even shave regularly. Those are three out of eight ingredients in the magic Nobel Prize winning formula that the BBC has come up with. Interestingly enough, if you take the European Coal and Steel Community as the first step towards the EU, it meets two criteria of the formula: Born in spring and 61 years old. Spooky.
→ Nobel Prizes: Is there a secret formula to winning one? (BBC)
Further recommendations
A wonderful short essay about the little big things technology does to our minds and souls.
→ Paris and the Data Mind (The Morning News)
Breathtaking (ha!) underwater photographs that look like Baroque paintings.
→ Reckless Unbound (Christy Lee Rogers)
«Dear Mr. Homer, thank you for coming into the office last week and performing your epic poem. Unfortunately, we do not buy books based on pitches. We think your story is very interes—no, actually we don’t.»
→ Famous Authors, Rejected (The New Yorker)
Beautiful short documentary: Crazy man runs 84km Fish River Canyon Hiking Trail in 7 hours.
→ The Beauty of the Irrtional (Merely Thinking)