When, oh when, will Corn Mo get his due?

David Macauley? I like his stuff, sure, but isn't he a little old and established for this (I know, I know, there's no such constraint in the selection criteria, but what good does an unbound reward to an already well-off and well-established figure do?)? Just more evidence that the genius grants are a modern-day secret society and the real purpose is to save genetic material or something weird like that.