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Genius Requires Just the Right Mix

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the baking-genius-pie dept.

An anonymous reader writes "LiveScience has an interesting piece taking a look at how genius is rarely developed in a vacuum. From the article: 'The reality is that behind many scientific geniuses, there is at least one other genius, and often a number of them.' It takes much more than a genius pal or predecessor, however, to do great science, according to Simmons. Scientific advances emerge from social, economic and political conditions."

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  1. Tell it to Mr Oreck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "genius is rarely developed in a vacuum"

    When it comes to all matters vacuum, the man is a genius!

    1. Re:Tell it to Mr Oreck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It weighs less than a gallon of milk!

  2. Or even better... by jibjibjib · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    a Beowulf cluster of geniuses!

  3. PENIS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    bird!

  4. Re:Leibniz, Bernoulli, Euler... by tsmithnj · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    There's a very long string of famous , I'll use musicians that associated with each other (not necessarily directly, but they are all connected on a relatively small graph),beginning with Elvis and ending with me (lol). It includes Scotty Moore, James Burton, Jimmy Page, Kurt Cobain, and &, as well as the aforementioned two.

    Mod me as troll please.....

  5. Genius by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Real Genius takes a freakin laser.