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The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at M.I.T. [est. 1959]
'The Infinite Mind' public radio program
AP's 'Greatest Minds in the World' website
Stephen E. Palmer's Super Natural Minds website
Allen Institute Brain Atlas
Great American Think-Off essay contest [est. 1993] in New York Mills, MN

Scientists & Thinkers section of the 'Time Magazine 100' Special Issue (April 2005)

A&E/History Channel "Mystery of Genius"
"The Real Story": A&E VHS [8/2001] for $28.45
"Masters & Madmen": A&E VHS [8/2001] for $28.45

The 2007 Scientific American Magazine 50 Awards
The 2006 Scientific American Magazine 50 Awards
The 2005 Scientific American Magazine 50 Awards
The 2004 Scientific American Magazine 50 Award
The 2003 Scientific American Magazine 50 Award
The First Scientific American Magazine 50 Award [2002]

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'Books to Ponder' Pages

"Genius is the ability to avoid work by doing it right the first time."
— old saying

"The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do."
— B.F. Skinner

"Improvement makes straight roads;
but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius."
— William Blake [1757–1827]

"If the brain were so simple we could understand it,
[then] we would be so simple [that] we couldn't."
— Lyall Watson

"Most people would sooner die than think. In fact, they do."
— Bertrand Russell [1872-1970]

"Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind,
terrify people, cleanse the air."
— Sřren Kierkegaard [1813-55]

"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this
sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
— Jonathan Swift [1667–1745]

"The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [1749-1832]

"Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard
by which to weigh them."
— Joseph Joubert

"A genius is one who can do anything except make a living."
— Joey Adams

"There's nothing as stupid as an educated man,
if you get him off the thing that he is educated in."
— Will Rogers [1879-1935]

"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited;
genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."
— Samuel T. Coleridge [1772-1834]

"The only thing that makes a man able to get along in this world is his brain. A man doesn't have the claws
of a bear, nor the strength of a bull. He doesn't have the nose of a wolf, nor the wings of a hawk,
but he has a brain. You're going to get along in this world as long as you use it."
— Louis L'Amour [1908-88] [in 'Down The Long Hills']

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	"What Is Intelligence?: Beyond The Flynn Effect" [2007] by James R. Flynn Cambridge Univ Press hardcover [8/2007] for $14.96
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	"Social Intelligence: The New Science of Success - Beyond IQ, Beyond EI, Applying Multiple Intelligence Theory To Human Interaction" [2005] by Karl Albrecht Pfeiffer 9x6¼ pb [11/2005] for $14.82
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	"Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" [2005] by Malcolm Gladwell Little, Brown 8½x6 hardcover [1/2005] for $17.13 TimeWarner audio CD [1/2005] for $26.39 TimeWarner audio [1/2005] for $19.79 listed as one of the Time Magazine 100 (April 2005)
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	"Seeing Past Z: Imagination In A Fast-Forward World" [2004] by Beth Kephart W.W. Norton 8¼x5¾ hardcover [6/2004] for $16.29
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	"Mind Wide Open: Your Brain & The Neuroscience of Everyday Life" [2004] by Steven Johnson Scribner 8½x5¾ pb [5/2005] for $10.20 Scribner hardcover [1/2004] for $16.50 Tantor Media UNABR audio CD [8/2004] for $19.79 author's blogsite
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	"Inequality By Design: Cracking The Bell Curve Myth" [1996] by Claude S. Fischer, Michael Hout, Martín Sánchez Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler & Kim Voss a comprehensive refutation and expansion of Herrnstein & Murray's "The Bell Curve" [1994] {included below} Princeton Univ Press 9x6 pb [7/96] for $24.95 Princeton Univ Press hardcover [7/96] out of print/used
	"The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create The Dynamics of Innovation" [1995] by Ikujiro Nonaka & Hirotaka Takeuchi Oxford Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [5/95] for $29.24
	"The Bell Curve: Intelligence & Class Structure In American Life" [1994] by Richard J. Herrnstein & Charles Murray see also "Inequality by Design" [1996] above Free Press 9¼x6 pb [1/96] out of print/many used Free Press 9½x6¾ hardcover [4/99] out of print/used
	"Shadows of The Mind: A Search For The Missing Science of Consciousness" [1994] by Roger Penrose Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [8/96] for $15.30 Oxford Univ Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [10/94] for $0.00
	"Edward de Bono's Thinking Course" [1988] Facts On File 9x6 pb [9/94] out of print/used Sagebrush hardcover [9/94] for $24.85
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	"Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences" [1983] by Howard Gardner Basic Books 9¼x6 pb [3/93] for $14.00 Basic Books hardcover [12/83] out of print/used
	"Sentience" [1976] by Wallace I. Matson Univ CA Press pb [10/82] out of print/used Univ CA Press hardcover [2/76] out of print/used
	"The Origin of Consciousness In The Breakdown of The Bicameral Mind" [1976] by Julian Jaynes Houghton Mifflin 9¼x6 pb [8/2000] for $14.40 Houghton Mifflin hardcover [1976] out of print/used
	"The Road Since Structure: Philosophical Essays 1970-1993 With An Autobiographical Interview" [2000] by Thomas S. Kuhn, edited by James Conant & John Haugeland Univ of Chicago Press 8½x6.6 pb [1/2003] for $12.60 Univ of Chicago Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/2000] for $17.00
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"Creativity & Intelligence: Explorations With Gifted Students"
[1962 classic] by Jacob W. Getzels & Philip W. Jackson
John Wiley & Sons hardcover [1/62] out of print/used

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	"How We Think: A Restatement of The Relation of Reflective Thinking To The Educative Process" [1910 classic] by John Dewey [1859-1952] Dover 8½x5½ pb [10/97] for $8.95 Houghton Mifflin 7½x5¾ hardcover [8/97] for $51.16

Children  &  Learning

National Assn. of Gifted Children
Great Potential Press of Scottsdale, AZ
Early Entrance Foundation - college entrance programs [est. 2004]
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	"The Complete Idiot's Guide To Indigo Children: An Enlightened Approach To Nurturing An Indigo Child" [2007] by Wendy H. Chapman & Carolyn Flynn Alpha Books 9x6 pb [8/2007] for $10.17 The supposed phenomenon of Indigo Children was described in 1982 by Nancy Ann Tappe and popularized by the 1999 book {below} by Lee Carroll & Jan Tober; see Wikipedia entry on Indigo Children
	"Gifted Children and Gifted Education: A Handbook For Teachers & Parents" [2006] by Gary A. Davis Great Potential Press 9x5¾ pb [9/2006] for $21.75
	"Genius Denied: How To Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds" [2004] by Jan & Bob Davidson, with Laura Vanderkam S&S 8½x5½ pb [3/2005] for $10.40 S&S 8½x5¾ hardcover [4/2004] for $16.32 official booksite
	"What's Going On In There?: How The Brain & Mind Develop In The First Five Years of Life" [1999] by Lise Eliot Bantam 9¼x6 pb [10/2000] for $12.92 Bantam 10x6½ hardcover [9/99] out of print/used
	"The Scientist In The Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About The Mind" [1999] by Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff & Patricia K. Kuhl Harper 8x5¼ pb [1/2001] for $10.50 Wm. Morrow 11x6 hardcover [9/99] out of print/used
	"The Indigo Children: The New Kids Have Arrived" [1999] by Lee Carroll & Jan Tober Hay House 8¼x5½ pb [5/99] for $11.16 Spanish-language edition: Hay House 8½x5½ pb [6/2001] for $11.86 see Wikipedia entry on Indigo Children
	"Gifted Children: Myths & Realities" [1996] by Ellen Winner Basic Books pb [6/97] for $21.00 Basic Books 9¾x6¾ hardcover [6/96] out of print/used
	"Raising A Thinking Child: Help Your Young Child To Resolve Everyday Conflicts & Get Along With Others" [1994] by Myrna B. Shure, PhD pocket 8¼x5¼ pb [3/96] for $11.20 Henry Holt 8¾x6¼ hardcover [9/94] out of print/many used Random House audio [2/96] out of stock/used
	"Keys To Parenting The Gifted Child" [1994] by Dr. Sylvia B. Rimm Great Potential Press 9x6 3rd edition pb [10/2006] for $11.53
	"I Can Problem Solve: An Interpersonal Cognitive Problem Solving Program" [1992] by Myrna B. Shure, PhD — Pre-School edition Research Press 10½x8¼ pb [4/2001] for $39.95 — Kindergarten & Primary Grades edition Research Press 10¾x8¼ pb [4/2001] for $39.95 — Intermediate Elementary Grades edition Research Press 10½x8¼ pb [4/2001] for $39.95
	"The Everyday Genius: Restoring Children's Natural Joy of Learning — and Yours Too" [1988] by Peter Kline Great River Books 9¼x6 pb [1/97] out of print/used Great River Books 9¼x6¼ [1/97] for $19.95
	"Nature's Gambit: Child Prodigies & The Development of Human Potential" [1986] by David Henry Feldman, with Lynn T. Goldsmith Teachers College Press 9¼x6 pb [9/91] for $18.95 Basic Books hardcover [10/86] out of print/used

"Give Your Child A Superior Mind: A Program For The Preschool Child" [1966]
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S&S hardcover [12/66] out of print/used

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