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« Free: 38 September Songs, daily commercial games and programs | Main | Better colors for your digital photos » September 26, 200724 MacArthur awards -- Will edgier philanthropists make millionaires of obscure geniuses?2007 MacArthur Foundation grant winners
Latest in the line of 756 since 1981, most (all?) of the newest Fellows seem accomplished and significant already. They're professors and scientists, doctors, a couple of musicians and painters and a dancer. Anybody would be delighted at the recognition and $500,000 over five years, no strings attached. It beats winning "Queen for a Day." I drool. Significantly absent, anyone working in Web technology, journalism, politics, economics, architecture, philosophy -- the human connections. There's a ton of money at the top now, enough to build out in those areas, enough that dozens of John Beresford Tipton re-enactors could amuse themselves by sending Stephen Anthony out with million-dollar checks for people who could "make important contributions in the future" if they didn't have to get up and go make money at something else every day. I hope there are genius philanthropists who'll ferret out shy, obscure alt-geniuses without position or portfolio, give them a dose of fertilizer and watch what happens. Who would you suggest they give the upgrades to? Posted by Sheila Lennon |
my passport photo blogging since 2002 garden blogs archived headlines  Sheila Lennon is features & interactive producer of projo.com, the Web site of The Providence (R.I.) Journal Rhode Island |
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