{"id":1072,"date":"2005-09-20T18:17:34","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T01:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2005-09-20T18:17:34","modified_gmt":"2005-09-21T01:17:34","slug":"from-genius-to-well-funded-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/09\/20\/from-genius-to-well-funded-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"Genius Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The list of this years MacArthur award winners is out.  The MacArthur awards are half-million dollar no strings attached awards for &#8220;creativity, orginality, and potential.&#8221;  I will brag that Berkeley ended up with three awards this year.  OK, that&#8217;s enough bragging.  At times like this, I think it is important to revisit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/macarthur-genius-grant-goes-right-up-recipients-no,4248\/\">this<\/a> classical article from the Onion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMacArthur Genius Grant Goes Right Up Recipient&#8217;s Nose<br \/>\nOctober 15, 2003 | Issue 39\u202240<br \/>\nALBANY, NY\u2014According to friends, the $500,000, five-year, no-strings-attached MacArthur Fellowship awarded to Jim Yong Kim earlier this month went right up the 43-year-old scientist&#8217;s nose. &#8220;Kim&#8217;s efforts to eradicate drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis in Russian prisons and Peruvian ghettos amazed everyone\u2014as did his appetite for top-grade cocaine,&#8221; Marisa Amir said Monday. &#8220;As soon as that first check arrived, Kim was on the phone with his dealer, and two hours later, he was in a hot tub full of strippers.&#8221; His first installment of money gone, the scientist then returned to the task of developing a whole-cell cholera toxin recombinant B subunit vaccine.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If it really is unrestricted, I wonder if you can take the money and put it all on the number 13 in roulette?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The list of this years MacArthur award winners is out. The MacArthur awards are half-million dollar no strings attached awards for &#8220;creativity, orginality, and potential.&#8221; I will brag that Berkeley ended up with three awards this year. OK, that&#8217;s enough bragging. At times like this, I think it is important to revisit this classical article &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/09\/20\/from-genius-to-well-funded-genius\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Genius Grants&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}