The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places From Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley (64 page)

Schenk, Johann,
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Schiller, Friedrich,
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Schliemann, Heinrich,
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Schnitzler, Arthur,
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Schoenberg, Arnold,
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Schopenhauer, Arthur,
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Schorske, Carl,
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Schubert, Franz,
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Schwartz, Daniel,
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Bose and,
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chance and,
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education and,
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Einstein and,
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Galton and,
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Janusian thinking and,
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Shen and,
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Simonton and,
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Vienna and,
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scientific method,
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American colonies and,
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Calcutta and,
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clubs and,
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divided self of,
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education in,
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flyting and,
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improvement and,
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India and,
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religion and,
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scrappiness and,
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Silicon Valley and,
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and sources of genius,
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train travel and,
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uncertainty and,
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Scott, Sir Walter,
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Scottish Enlightenment,
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sculpture,
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Florence and,
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Greece and,
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Michelangelo and,
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selective migration,
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selective retention, blind variation and,
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serendipity,
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sexuality,
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Freud and,
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Hangzhou and,
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Sher, Richard,
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Shostak, Marjorie,
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Silicon Valley,
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Athens and,
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attempts at replication of,
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audience of,
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Darrah and,
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demise of,
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Edinburgh and,
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failure in,
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finances and,
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ideas in,
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McNamee and,
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roots of,
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Scotland and,
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tradition and,
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Vienna and,
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weak ties in,
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Simpson, James Young,
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Sistine Chapel,
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Six–Foot High Club,
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slaves,
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Small, James,
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Smith, Adam,
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Edinburgh and,
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Hume and,
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