If
I Ran the National Endowment of the Arts
The
highest award bestowed by the nation on an artist. Rather inconsistent,
compared to when achievements took place: Aretha Franklin got hers before Bob
Dylan, Wynton Marsalis before Sonny Rollins, Ray Bradbury before Harper Lee.
Here’s who I would give it to for 2012:
Sid
Caesar, Television pioneer and comedian (88 years old)
Gary
Snyder, Poet (82 years old)
Toni
Morrison, Novelist (81 years old)
Gordon
Willis, Cinematographer (81 years old)
Oscar
de la Renta, Fashion designer (80 years old)
Wayne
Shorter, Jazz saxophonist (79 years old)
Philip
Glass, Composer (75 years old)
Carollee
Schneemann, Performance artist (72 years old)
Liza
Minnelli, Actress and singer (66 years old)
Annie
Leibovitz, Photographer (62 years old)
2012 Nobel
Prize Predictions
They're a month away!
Physics
– 2:1 odds on Peter Higgs
Literature
– 3:1 odds on Haruki Murakami, BONUS: 6:1 odds on Bob Dylan
Peace
– 3:1 odds on Mursi, El-Keib, and Jebali, individually or any combination thereof
Chemistry
– 7:1 odds on Richard Zare or W.E. Moerner, or combination
Physiology
– 5:1 odds on Joseph Vacanti and Robert Langer
American Scientists Who Should Have Statues Made of Them
Sometimes a statue is needed. Only those without statues were considered (unlike Goddard, Millikan, Tesla, the Wrights, etc.) Maybe we could have these guys in the Capitol? Or a science park?
Jonas
Salk – Cured Polio
Linus
Pauling – Chemist and Peace Advocate
Thomas
Hunt Morgan – Geneticist
Edwin
Hubble – Cosmologist
Gregory Pincus and Margaret Sanger – Contraceptive Pill and Revolutionary
Rachel
Carson – Environmentalist
Willis
Carrier – Air Conditioning
Richard
Feynman – Physicist
John
Bardeen, Walter Brattain, William Shockley – Pioneers of the Information Age
Glenn
Seaborg – Chemist
Willard
Libby – Radiocarbon Dating
1 comment:
I'm pretty sure that having a giant telescope named after you counts as a memorial....
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