This is a great article - this foundation gives away $500,000 to recipients who show potential in some category. Like writing, or preserving rag-time, or creating new ways to work with glass, or "opening new paths for controlling inorganic chemical reactions". One lady who won, "studies the history of shared knowledge between medieval Byzantium and its neighbors in the Islamic Middle East".

It's amazing what things we humans are doing out there in the world this very minute. While I am vegging in front of my computer, there is an artist out there who "works to make paintings more three-dimensional and sculptures more painterly". And she just got $500,000 to figure it out. I hope she does, because I'd like to see it.