https://nerds-of-a-feather.github.io/categories/dei/Dei - Category -Hugo -- gohugo.ioenAalok Varma and Anagha VarmaTue, 06 Oct 2026 19:46:40 -0700https://nerds-of-a-feather.github.io/library/stockholm-syndrome-lebon-prize/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:46:40 -0700Aalok Varma and Anagha Varmahttps://nerds-of-a-feather.github.io/library/stockholm-syndrome-lebon-prize/It’s that time of the year again when, each morning, the Nobel committee, based in Stockholm, announces whom they have decided deserves recognition for their work in science, literature, and peace. As a child, I was fascinated by these prizes, and the people who received them – after all, their names made it into textbooks, and they were made out to be the best of mankind – intelligent, curious, generous, resilient, <insert favourite glorious adjective here>. Over the years, though, as I began to understand the history and inner workings of this prize, these illusions have slowly unravelled.

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