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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 »
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