Smart competes; genius innovates.
Smart follows existing directions; genius creates new directions.
Smart learns from existing knowledge; genius creates knowledge that does not yet exist.
Smart learns how things work; genius figures out how they could work better.
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High return on intellect How long would it take for today’s capitalists and government leaders to recognize another genius wizard if they were staring them in the face? Tragically, there are thousands of geniuses...
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has handed out its yearly Genius Awards to 24 American geniuses. The 24 individuals are being rewarded for creativity, originality, and potential to make important contributions in the future. Only U.S. citizens and residents...
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" As a German auction house prepares to sell off three of Adolf Hitler's watercolours, new evidence has emerged suggesting that the Nazi leader remained convinced he was an artistic genius and was often...
Truth is stranger than fiction they say. But I say movies are stranger than truth. Some of the movies just take it over the top and some really hit the ground hard. I could not make out which category does...
created by Kevin Fed | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1340 views | 60 recommendations | 16 comments
Being so far from my homeland in fact thousands of miles away, on a small tropical Island called Negros, I have lost track of British politics and have become inundated with the politics of USA. I have also...
opinion by Babel-Fish | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 293 views | 2 recommendations | 5 comments
"An eight-year-old boy in India who specialises in animation for films has begun teaching his skills to adults. Aman Rehman, from Dehradun in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand, is also seeking to win a Guinness Book of World Records "Young Achiever" award. Aman learned...
created by Amitjha | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 1962 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
How often do you just hit a wall and have a brain cramp while trying to produce some creative thoughts. Well, this new "thinking cap" may just be that catalyst to spark the creative genius in you. It is a cap...
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Proof that talent has little to do with patrician blood:"April 9, 2008 -- Leonardo Da Vinci, regarded by many as the greatest genius of the Renaissance, was the son of a humble slave girl and had at least 21...
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This unusual piece of art is on the porch sunning himself, however, at one time he lived in the depths of a junk heap.Used as an object lesson in a religious service Edgar's history began as a Harley Davidson...
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Simply amazing, Da Vinci was certainly a man ahead of his time. "ROME - It's a new Da Vinci code but this time it could be for real.
An Italian musician and computer technician claims to have uncovered...
created by Barry ORegan | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 5421 views | 23 recommendations | 7 comments
My grandmother used to say that the truth is stranger than fiction. Take a look at this clip at cuts.com and the read the transcript below."Yesterday, Gawker went ahead and posted what is possibly the most...
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"A new theory suggests that creativity comes in two distinct types – quick and dramatic, or careful and quiet.
In the fall of 1972, when David Galenson was a senior economics major at Harvard, he took what he describes as a “gut” course in 17th-century Dutch art. On the...
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Using drugs such as cocaine can increase the risk of torn arteries and strokes, researchers say. Two women suffered severe strokes and a major tear in the neck artery after taking the drug methamphetamine, which is toxic to large arteries. 'Since cocaine has...
"Al-Qaida's Ayman al-Zawahiri's pre-Christmas rants backfired in both Palestine and in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Zawahiri -- Al-Qaida's terror emir No. 2 -- ordered the Palestinians to wage his globalist brand of...
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