Mental Floss: Genius Instruction Manual by Editors of Mental Floss

Author:Editors of Mental Floss [Mental Floss]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780061747687
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2006-01-14T16:00:00+00:00

Why it’s important: The Puritans had been gone for a century by the time Hawthorne got around to writing about them, but the novel is still a damning indictment of religious hypocrisy—past, present, and future.

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Congratulations! You are now halfway to full-fledged Genius.

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At this point, you’re basically the indubitably brilliant Nikola Tesla—or at least half of him, anyway. We’ll say his head, arms, and torso—all the parts that did the hard work. Being as smart as Tesla means that you’re well-equipped to make tremendous breakthroughs in the field of electromagnetism. But it also means that, like Tesla, you’re not quite smart enough to remember to patent your work. And because you don’t, you end up living in a series of low-rent hotels in New York City in your final years, and your only friends will be pigeons. Plus, you’ll repeatedly be beaten out for the Nobel Prize by a series of scientists far inferior to you. On the other hand, you might get a five-piece guitar-heavy hair band named after you, so life isn’t too bad.

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