Are you clever enough to master the world's hardest ideas? Can you explain Quantum Theory? What is the Higgs Boson? And what are you looking at when you're looking at Modern Art?
Are you clever enough to master the world's hardest ideas? Can you explain Quantum Theory? What is the Higgs Boson? And what are you looking at when you're looking at Modern Art?
Shortcuts to becoming a genius include: * Are you a Genius? quizzes - questions to test your knowledge* The 10 things a Genius would know* Talk like a Genius - intellectual conversation gambits* A Bluffer's summary The Genius Test challenges you to understand 50 subjects including: The Hard Problem of consciousness; the human genome; Evo-devo; the human brain; A.I.; Fermat's Last Theorem; the Riemann Hypothesis; Godel's Theorem of Incompleteness; Post-modernism; Modern architecture; Keynesianism; Semiotics and Structuralism; Schrodinger's cat; DNA; Deconstructivism; the mind-body problem; Superstrings; Quantum Theory; The Big Bang; black holes...and many more.
Giles Sparrow studied Astronomy at University College London, and works as an editor specializing in popular science. He is the author of - amongst other books - The Universe and How To See It, The Stargazer's Handbook and Hubble: Window on the Universe and was a major contributor to Dorling Kindersley's Universe.
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Are you clever enough to master the world's hardest ideas? Can you explain Quantum Theory?
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The Genius Test was written by Giles Sparrow and published by Quercus Publishing
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