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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. OT: Google News by mshiltonj · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Google News, in just a couple days, has firmly established itself as the standard-bearer of news online. Two (The one you're reading and this one) of the last four slashdot articles have referenced Google News.

    Two of the the recent /. articles (This one again, and this one) where at the top of the Google News SciTech section when they were posted to /.

    Google News seems to find the good stories and push them to the top *really* fast. I see myself relying on them more and more.

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