The MacArthur Foundation has announced this year's winners of the "Genius" grant for $250k $500k for outstanding achievment in the field of outstandingness. Pretty amazing cross-section of artists, scientists and thinkers here:
Marine Roboticist building multiple, miniature, autonomous underwater vehicles that mimic the behavior of schooling fish…
High School Debating Coach changing the landscape of opportunities within urban schools…
Inventor cobbling sophisticated, life-enhancing devices from inexpensive materials for people in areas with little access to technology and even fewer resources to obtain it.
(via Kottke)
