New MacCarthur Fellows Announced

Here is the list of the 2004 winners of these lucrative but idiosyncratic awards, that are sometimes called, misleadingly, "genius grants." No philosophers or legal scholars on the list; indeed, the only person I even recognize is Angela Belcher, who used to be a Chemistry professor here before MIT snatched her up last year. In prior years, I've usually had some familiarity with a half-dozen of the winners or more. Perhaps I've become more ignorant over time, or perhaps the awards have grown more peculiar. Hard to say...