The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley by Eric Weiner Published in January of 2016. The places that Weiner does choose in his ...

When Eric Weiner sat down to write his new book he had to tackle a big question first: How do you define genius? "That's not as easy as it sounds," he tells NPR's Rachel Martin. "I have a slightly ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Not long ago, I spent a day in Waterloo, Canada, visiting with a few dozen scientists and engineers. There probably aren’t too many college students in ...

Well, in the ancient world, the word 'genius' was not so much used about individual people, it was used about places, and almost always with the world loci. Genius loci meant 'the spirit of a place.' ...

If someone asked you, "Who do you think of when you think of a genius?" you could probably answer without too much thinking involved: Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Marilyn vos Savant, ...