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The Six Coolest 2010 MacArthur Geniuses
Every year, the MacArthur foundation anoints more than two dozen new "geniuses." This year's lucky 23 include a beekeeper, a high school teacher, a jazz pianist, a type designer, a novelist, and a very famous TV producer. You can find th
The Music Man
Jason Moran, 35
Just halfway through his thirties, Moran's name has become synonymous with great contemporary jazz. The pianist's 2008 homage to Thelonius Monk
The Cool Engineer
Amir Abo-Shaeer, 38
Now a physics teacher in Santa Barbara, Abo-Shaeer left behind a (presumably lucrative) career as a mechanical engineer to teach physics, engineering, and robotics to public school kids. He founded the
The Beekeeper
Marla Spivak, 55
By now everyone knows the honeybees are dying, but University of Minnesota entomologist Spivak is hoping to reverse that. By developing scal
The Child of Communism
Yiyun Li, 37
A Chinese transplant, the fiction writer has received praise for her short story collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and her recent novel The Vagrants, which The Champion of the Underdog David Simon, 50 The screenwriter and producer behind Homicide, The Wire, and Treme has been honored for going where primetime TV doesn't like to go: into America's forgotten neighborhoods.
The Font Maven
Matthew Carter, 72
Meet the man who has made many of your words look even better than they would in Times New Roman. Carter designed Verdana and more than 60 other typefaces and 250 individual fonts (see more
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