On Genius and Invention

Posted June 28th, 2008 at 11:06 AM by mjerryfuerst

An article about an idea factory, and that the discoveriesof geniuses are often discovered by others simultaneously or previously

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all

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On June 28th, 2008 at 01:12 PM, Regnad Kcin said:

It's true.

When the time is ripe for certain things, these things
appear in different places in the manner of violets
coming to light in the early spring.
-   Farkas Bolyai

 

On June 30th, 2008 at 05:55 AM, PropertyRights said:

ABSOLUTELY FACINATING!!!  No Sarcasm intended... THANK YOU for posting this. All I can say is WOW!! and I can only imagine the wave of new technology headed our way... !!

Less than 100 years between powered flight and landing on the moon seems trivial after reading that.

I have lost 1 family member to Cancer in the last year, and soon to lose another.. this article gives GREAT hope to the future of cancer research as well as a plethora of other things...

All I can say is AMAZING! again NO sarcasm intended.