Tuesday, September 20, 2011

MARILYN VOS SAVANT NEEDS A BETTER PUBLICIST: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced its 2011 "genius" grant honorees, including Jad Abumrad, co-host and producer of WNYC's Radiolab.

(Here's our Genius Grant posts from 2009 and 2010, the former having links to our 2006-08 offerings.)

11 comments:

  1. Meghan8:00 AM

    I don't know any of them but I'm glad to see my alma mater represented a handful of times.

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  2. Heather K9:26 AM

    Yay JAD!!!!!  Krulwich is going to give him so much crap about being a genius, but probably loud happy paternally proud crap.

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  3. The sports medicine researcher was one of my undergrad professors. I'm sure I inspired him by showing up to class more than half the time.

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  4. Genevieve11:31 AM

    He ties in to the ALOTT5MA posts on concussions (wish I knew how to link them).  So glad someone is researching this thoroughly, and now he has funding to do it more in depth.

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  5. Kay Ryan is a great poet and a lovely person. She's the only person on the list I know, but I'm thrilled for her.

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  6. Benner1:03 PM

    I've seen Alisa Weilerstein perform, and she's really, really good.  She collaborates a lot with Inon Barnatan, whose partner was a friend in law school.  Her repertoire is a bit more conservative than I'd expect for a MacArthur grant, though.  I guess excellent cellism is its own reward.

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  7. Yay for Peter Hessler, whose writings on China for the New Yorker and elsewhere were essential.  Among his non-book-length work, I particularly loved his article a couple of years ago about getting a car and driving in China.

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  8. Congratulations to the winners, and condolences to their siblings, high school classmates, and children of their mothers' friends.  

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  9. JosephFinn7:37 PM

    As a Chicagoan...I don't like the Aqua.  It makes me quea<span> </span>sy.

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  10. Heather K8:33 PM

    As another Chicagoan I LOVE the Aqua because it looks like magic more than it looks like a building.

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  11. Philomena9:19 PM

    As always, all of these people sound utterly fascinating.  My favorite awards! 

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