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In The Author's Voice: National Geographic - Genius

WSIU Public Broadcasting | By Jeff Williams

Published May 6, 2017 at 7:45 AM CDT

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May cover story on Genius in the National Geographic Magazine

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Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett improvises concerts that last for as long as two hours. "The only thing that works," he says, “is letting go.”";s:

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Prodigious productivity is a defining characteristic of genius. Charcoal sketches cover the walls of a once concealed room beneath the Medici Chapel in Florence, where Michelangelo hid for three months in 1530 after defying his patrons. The drawings inclu

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A century after Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of space-time— in his general theory of relativity, scientists like Kazuhiro Yamamoto (on bicycle) plan to use the first underground gravitational wave telescope";s:

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The May cover story for National Geographic Magazine is Genius. Author and journalist Claudia Kalb delves into the issue exploring where geniuses come from. And, what role does society play in their development or is genius simply a genetic lottery?

WSIU's Jeff Williams recently talked with Kalb about those questions and more for this edition of In The Author’s Voice.

Genius, the May cover story for National Geographic Magazine, by Claudia Kalb, is currently on news stands and available on line atwww.nationalgeographic.com.