A former NPR correspondent and now author, Eric Weiner a resident of Washington DC, has written this witty but sort of non conclusive body of work around what makes genius grow in certain parts of the world vs. another. That is if you buy into the notion that genius indeed is geographically concentrated in certain lat long vs. another. His travels take him from Silicon Valley, the mother-ship of all innovation these days, to former great cities that produced masters in art, philosophy, science etc. From Athens, Greece to Calcutta, India he travels to seek out what genius really was and is. From some experiments done by an English fella called Galton, he starts his narrative about the Galton Box. This dude decides to measure everything that can be statistically analyzed, including figuring out which part of England had the most comely of women. He used felt pad and pins to do this activity and came up with a map showing the Londonites were prettiest and Scott...
Among human crayons I am Brown. Also, my thoughts bounce around and resemble the idea of Brownian motion. This blog is an interface for the reader into this unique jello I call my mind. A mind so fertile anything grows. An agnostic yet curious mind. A mind attempting the Horatian or Kabirism maxim of Carpe Diem or Aaj kareso aab. Rated W I L D for wilfully irritating to large demographic is sometimes the latter - graphic in its descriptions. Caveat Lector!