Recently added articles from The Sunday Telegraph London:
The big brain hunter Ferraris bore him, 'systems' fascinate him and unravelling human behaviour obsesses him. But what made Malcolm Gladwell the 'ideas guru' he is today? He has no idea, he tells John Preston
Oct 25, 2009; ... If you ask Malcolm Gladwell to define a work of genius, you'relikely to get an unexpected reply. 'A V W Golf,' he says promptly.'It's a fantastic achievement. As a child I used to be fascinated byFerraris, but now I'm totally bored by them. To make a car for, say,$40,000 is much harder ...
My perfect Sunday Martin Clunes actor
Oct 25, 2009; ... For some reason I don't listen to the Archers omnibus when it'sbroadcast, but I do record it, put it on my iPod, and listen to itlater. I'm not even sure if I like it - I don't think anyone does,they just like to touch base with them - I've just always done it. Ilike waking up late, ...
I cannot seem to look up one thing without finding myself scooting off in an unexpected chain of discovery
Oct 25, 2009; ... Life, I have decided, is conducted too quickly. Everything todayseems to be done in a stressful hurry. A stress not helped this weekby speed-reading the American Heart Association's journal which goesby the cheerful title of Hypertension. Just glancing at it made mefeel anxious. Worse ...
The private lives of very clever people What music do they like? What paper do they take? How often do they nap? Paul Kendall speaks to our most brilliant minds and asks: what's your secret?
Oct 25, 2009; ... Working environment Prof Marcus du Sautoy, mathematician Chaos is very important to me. I keep my office very messybecause it creates interesting random thoughts. Often I have to lookfor a paper and on my search to find it I will find other thingsthat trigger off new thoughts ...
What is the point of Mensa? What began as a club for people with high IQs now seems to be an excuse to go drinking, play poker and tell jokes. To begin our Genius Special, Nigel Farndale meets the members and wonders
Oct 25, 2009; ... I don't wish to boast, but I can recite the alphabet, spell myname, recognise three types of triangle and, most impressive of all,name the capital cities of 35 countries. What's that, you say? I'm agrown man? The product of an expensive education? I ought to be ableto do these things? ...