It's been said that genius is one per cent inspiration, and 99 per cent perspiration. But what if it's really about location, location, location? Author Eric Weiner says one of the things Mozart loved ...

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 ...

A full moon shines over the Parthenon on Athens’ holy rock of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. One of the places where genius resides, apparently, is Ancient Greece. Photo: Reuters/Yannis Behrakis ...

Eric Weiner likes to think of himself as a â philosophical traveler.â The former correspondent for NPR has made a second career out of studying the intersection of places and ideas, with books such as ...

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 ...

Why did ancient Athens, Greece come up with so many philosophers? What happened to Scotland during the Enlightenment that gave birth to rapid improvement in all areas of the sciences? Is Silicon ...

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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, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. What makes a genius? Since at least the 19th century, some have said it is down to genetics, while others have argued ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Take the unmistakable musical genius Mozart in Vienna. He wasn't alone in what is called the city's ...

Eric Weiner likes to think of himself as a "philosophical traveler." The former correspondent for NPR has made a second career out of studying the intersection of places and ideas, with books such as ...