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Last year, I interviewed the neuroscientist Professor Marian Diamond, of the University of California, Berkeley, for a programme investigating the nature of Einstein's genius. She smiled as she explained: "They arrived floating in a Kraft mayonnaise jar." She was referring to pieces of Einstein's brain that had been sent to her by Dr Thomas Harvey, the pathologist who neglected to put the brain back in the body at autopsy.
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Play That Baby Some Mozart!
Ever since the first bright spark invented fire, the recipe for genius has been one of culture's most alluring quests. And yet, historically, our conception of genius has been surrounded by a de facto mystery. The idea that it could be explained would, under certain conceptions, appear to run counter to its essence.
In Roman times, genius was considered to be innate: a trait bestowed by the gods at birth. But with the dwindling of the gods who, from antiquity through to the Enlightenment and be...See the full content of this document
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