Roasting chicken causes marriage proposals and genius breakthroughs.
In "Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World," Melissa Schilling gathers eight titans of STEM among them Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Nikola Tesla, and Benjamin Franklin and finds that they share a handful of key traits.
In reality, while lone geniuses and breakthroughs do occur, incremental progress and collaboration are more important in increasing our understanding of nature.
Using Apple's breakthrough Genius feature is easy select any song, click the Genius button, and iTunes instantly creates a playlist of songs that go great together from your own library.
And some Matisses, from before 1904, when Vollard organized a Matisse show, which tanked, document a genius whose imminent breakthrough Vollard missed.
iTunes 8 includes the new breakthrough Genius feature, which lets you automatically create playlists from songs in your music library that go great together with just one click.
The new iPod nano incorporates Apple's breakthrough Genius technology which automatically creates playlists from songs in your music library that go great together, with just one click.
But the report, which meticulously points out Robson's precise age–"15 yrs & 7 months"–is more of a genius marketing move than breakthrough analysis.
The impure genius of Sonic Youth's breakthrough "Daydream Nation," which Moody lauds without quite catching on to, was all about bundling that mismatched Velveteen baggage up in Patti Smith's "Transcend, transcend" mantra and lighting out for parts unknown with it.
In the late 1950's, when it was new, Pierre Boulez's "Marteau Sans Maître" was hailed within the contemporary music avant-garde as a breakthrough work of genius from a composer still in his 20's and decried by most mainstream concertgoers (few of whom had actually heard it) as just another offputting exercise in serialism.
