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Ideas Society

Kafka Paranoia? Delusional Don Quixote? A Psychiatrist Diagnoses Literature’s Greats

Literature is filled with characters suffering from mental health issues… and with authors who weren’t necessarily much better off. In a fascinating book, a psychiatrist and a journalist attempt to unravel the mysteries of these minds.

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Economy Society

Gustave Eiffel: 100 Years Later, Still Defining ‘French Entrepreneur’

The memory of the famous engineer-entrepreneur who designed much more than Paris’ iconic Tower will be honored throughout 2023, on the occasion of the centenary of his death.

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In The News

Mozart In Italy: The Journey That Launched A Child Prodigy

The legendary composer — just 13 at the time — left Austria exactly 250 years ago for a lucrative but exhausting odyssey through the powerful Italian kingdoms and duchies of the day.

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Society

A Cool Takedown Of The Misfit Genius Stigma

People with particularly high IQs are often viewed as difficult and socially awkward, a new survey suggests. But in reality, they’re not so different from the rest of us.

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Impact: Education Innovation Society

Russia Asks If Its Gifted Students Should Get Special Schooling

ST. PETERSBURG — The physics lab is under the school’s cupola, literally in a holy place. This used to be a small home chapel, and now it’s a specialized classroom. The St. Petersburg physics and math school No. 30 moved back to this building, its historic home in the Vasilyevsky Island section of St. Petersburg, […]

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