Jezebel: Genius

McQueen's New Designer: "I Can't Try And Pretend To Be Him"

Jenna Sauers — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:52:00 EDT

"His ideas came from everywhere. It was never about, ‘Oh let's look at the Seventies,'" says Sarah Burton. (Why, whoever could she mean?) "Lee was about feeling, and he was a storyteller. It has to come from within you." More »

Cleavage Caddy Keeps Those Old Lipsticks Snug Between Your Boobs

Jessica Coen — Mon, 24 May 2010 19:45:00 EDT

File under things you never knew you needed: The Cleavage Caddy is an insert for your bra which helps secure all the crap you obviously shove down there. With so many colors and styles, it renders the Purseket obsolete. [MixedTape] More »

New Reality Show Features Genius Kids — Minus The Tears

Katy Kelleher — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:30:00 EST

Next Wednesday, a game show featuring gifted children competing for cash will premiere on Fox. But Our Little Genius leaves some wondering whether the pressure is too much for a kid to handle. More »

The April Elle: To Be A Genius Is To Be Privileged, Expensive

Cheryl — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:00:00 EDT

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The "Genius Issue" of Elle has hit newsstands—-and no, it's not full of Mensa members in Missoni—-just strange fashion, insecurity increasing beauty and of course, cover lies! More »

Genius Is Like "Mystical Fairy Juice," Says Eat, Pray, Love Author

Anna North — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:40:00 EST

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Do society's expectations destroy geniuses? So says the ubiquitous Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love (which we promise not to bash at all in this post). More »

Well, Is There A Scientific Link Between "Genius" And "Shithead"?

Moe — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:00:00 EDT

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We are all suckers for learning that something going on in our brains is linked to something else going on in our brains — the brain is sorta navelgazing that way — so when a new much-emailed New York Times story said a rare form of dementia had been credited as the source of late-onset waves of sudden creativity, we started headscratching. What other fun traits are linked? Eating disorders and addiction, check. ADD and scotch drinking, check. But what about genius and assholery? For all the linkages between intellect and nihilism and smartness and hedonism and creativity and narcissism and good books and bad manners the bullshitocracy has so kindly shoveled out over the years, surely junk science could weigh in here! Was V.S. Naipaul just too smart not to fuck around and beat his mistresses ? Could Spencer Pratt be a secret genius too? We asked our favorite neuroscientist who also happens to be maybe the only neuroscientist whose name we can think of off the bat, Sam Wang of the book Welcome To Your Brain and Princeton... More »