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What is a Genius?
Brain Power
You might think you know genius when you see it but as a new book shows, the very definition and idea has had a fluid history. From the divine to the profane, what we mean when we say when we say that potent word.
Nick Romeo
Published
Nov. 9 2013
5:45AM EST
Nick Romeo
romeonick@gmail.com
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