One of the big things that Stockholm
is known for is that it is the home of the Noble Prize (not the Peace Prize,
for some reason Oslo
has that…). It’s a pretty big deal here
– it was water cooler (coffee machine) talk the week they announced the
winners, and the banquet (held at City Hall) is the hottest ticket of the
year.
Wanting to get into all things Stockholm , I was kind of geekily-excited when
I researched and found out that they had scheduled a series of talks by all the
Nobel Laureates that would be open to the public. The odds of me understanding any of the talks
was low, but at least I could soak up the genius.
So after scouting it out, I found that the talks would start
Saturday morning at 9am, and go till about 3pm (physics from 9-1030, then
chemistry from 11- 1230 and economics bringing it home). That would have been a little too much Nobel
for my first time, but that first session would allow me to check the “attend a
nobel lecture” off of my bucket list.
(Yes, I have found that I am now retroactively adding cool things we do
to my bucket list).
