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MacArthur Foundation Announces Genius Grants
Chagasi writes: "The MacArthur Foundation has announced this year's
'Genius Grant' awards. The complete list of the 24 recipients can be read
here(1) at
their web site and here(2)
via Google's news service. The
winners include a robotics researcher from Dartmouth studying robotics,
and a paleoethnobotanist from Penn State
studying the ancient plants and foods of prehistoric
peoples."
Among the other nominees I see we have a seismologist studying earthquakes, a historian studying history, and a novelist writing books.
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Diversity is great, but the Genius grant selection always strikes me as a bit eccentric. Certainly they don't all fit the traditional "genius" profiles. For example:
...
An artist working in three dimensions with glass beads (Lou)
--wow, beads with 3 whole dimensions?
A molecular ecobiologist studying bacterial communication (Bassler)
--I think Gary Larson has this one covered
A journalist chronicling tales of those left behind or left out (Boo)
--hasn't this been done many times over?
Does anyone know whether Genius Grant recipients tend to distinguish themselves above their artistic/scientific peers later in their careers? Or do they just fade back into obscurity?
On the whole list of "geniuses," there are only four minorities on there! The whole list is a total whitewash.
The MacArthur Foundation is racist to the core. The white people should be stripped of their awards, and the awards must be given to the real genius inventors of our multicultural society: blacks, asians, arabs, and latinos -- not whites!
The most prestigious award should be given to Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe for his revolutionary actions in uniting the workers against the white ruling class.
I had been wondering how the MacArthur folks can so astutely tell the difference between geniuses and the rest of us, but perhaps it's not that challenging.
"There is a thin line between ignorance and arrogance, and only I have managed to erase that line." - Dr. Science
Genius is often recognized only after the person that contained and displayed that genius has passed away... I think that is true because they forgot ME.... AGAIN !
The winners include a robotics researcher from Dartmouth studying robotics, and a paleoethnobotanist from Penn State studying the ancient plants and foods of prehistoric peoples."
Ok, i can see why they would need to tell us what a robotics researcher does, but sheesh, who in the world doesn't know what a paleoethnobotanist does??