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MacArthur Foundation Announces Genius Grants

Posted by chrisd on from the chrisd-pinhead-awards-to-follow dept.

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."

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  1. You don't say? by plastik55 · · Score: 5, Funny
    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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  2. Re:Parent is a pussy by EvilSuggestions · · Score: 4, Funny
    First wipe your mouth becasue you've still got your mother's shit on your lips ... I have the courtesy to not effect anothers, you brain dead shiteater.

    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.

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  3. about genius by __aahlyu4518 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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 !

  4. Sheesh by MxTxL · · Score: 4, Funny

    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??