Is this the worst ‘Survivor’ season ever?

Now in its 19th season, "Survivor" has been remarkably resilient. There have been ups and downs, but there's never been a season that was a complete dud. Unfortunately, that streak may be coming to an end with this season, which is so far the closest thing Mark Burnett has ever produced to a complete failure.

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List of 2009 MacArthur Foundation grant recipients

The following 24 fellows each will receive $500,000 over the next five years from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation:

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Reno academy caters to really smart kids

Back home in Boise, Rachel was too bright for her own good. She was isolated from girls her own age who only wanted to talk about boys and shopping, and cut off from her teachers who seemed to regard her as an annoying brat.

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Atlanta's youthful GM builds winning design

Anyone who wants Thomas Dimitroff to respond to suggestions he's an NFL version of cartoon "Boy Genius" Jimmy Neutron can forget it.

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One man's luck: A genius grant, but so much more

On Tuesday, the new list of MacArthur "genius award" winners will be announced. If you're on it, here's what to expect:

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Film reveals inventor's fight over wiper design

For two decades, Robert Kearns waged an obsessive crusade against the auto industry, which he accused of stealing his invention. It destroyed his marriage, brought on a mental breakdown and may have cost him millions.

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10-year-old scholar takes Calif. college by storm

With the end of another school year approaching, college sophomore Moshe Kai Cavalin is cramming for final exams in classes such as advanced mathematics, foreign languages and music. But Cavalin is only 10 years old. And at 4-foot-7, his shoes don't quite touch the floor as he puts down a schoolbook and swivels around in his chair to greet a visitor.

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Russian Refuses Math's Highest Honor

A reclusive Russian won the math world's highest honor Tuesday for solving a problem that has stumped some of the discipline's greatest minds for a century — but he refused the award.

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Poll: Do You Feel Bad For Carrie Prejean? I Do.

I feel bad for Carrie. She's been abused by corporate America. It is really too bad, what happened to her. Corporate America should be ashamed of itself, and so should the MSM and the liberal media (same thing).

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There is a fine line between genius and madness because they share the same genes, scientists have found.

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"Most of the records were broken for most simultaneous titles in the top-selling charts by a single artist."

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A Miami Beach munitions dealer will face up to five years' imprisonment this fall after pleading guilty to defrauding the federal government by selling millions of dollars in banned Chinese-made machine-gun rounds to the U.S. Army.

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Honest to God, they NEVER heard of him... he looked kind of "shady" lol!! New Jersey Police get a large 'booyah' for this blunder! Never thought I'd see the day...

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Born with incredible intellectual gifts, Promethea started reading at age 1, was learning college-level calculus at age 7 and was hailed on national TV as a child genius.

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Back home in Boise, Rachel was too bright for her own good. She was isolated from girls her own age who only wanted to talk about boys and shopping, and cut off from her teachers who seemed to regard her as an annoying brat.

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Four-year-old Harry Chapple, "with a 'genius' IQ of 144 has been invited to join Mensa."

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I hear you support abortion. Do you want to be aborted? My kind of woman that Ann Coulter. Genius. This was Ann's reply after Ms. Joy Behar presses her hard on the water-boarding issue.

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Say what you will–this guy's either a moron or a genius. After watching him bob and weave through the longest campaign season in our nation's history, it's clear that this guy knows all the right moves when it comes to imaging a message (or lack thereof).

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"Is it possible to cultivate genius? Could we somehow structure our educational and social life to produce more Einsteins and Mozarts — or, more urgently these days, another Adam Smith or John Maynard Keynes?"

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Creativity/ day 13 Season of Non Violence Challenge

Humans by nature are inherently creative. Look around and you have no trouble finding items that are the result of another persons creativity become reality. It is the mother of all invention. It is woven into every aspect of life.

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Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.

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Asperger's: An Evolutionary Marvel?

Asperger's Syndrome, marked by high intelligence coupled with low social skills, is considered a high-functioning form of autism. People displaying its symptoms are remarkable in their intellectual abilities. They can excel in a wide-variety of areas.

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To a generation of science readers, he is the oddball astronomer who reportedly called a colleague a Nazi, claimed credit for everything that happened in cosmology after Einstein, and assaulted his peers in print and in person. To Barbarina Zwicky, he is Daddy.

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In 1779, a composer, writer, teacher, and dreamer named Christian Neefe arrived in Bonn, Germany, to work for the Electoral Court. Neefe (pronounced nay-fuh) was the definition of what Germans call a Schwärmer, a person swarming with rapturous enthusiasms.

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Young innovators are changing everything from theoretical mathematics to cancer therapy.

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Some very smart, very serious people have been spending a lot of time lately working themselves into a tizzy trying to defend their ongoing romance with the Governor of Alaska.

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"High school sophomores should be ready for college by age 16. That's the message from New Hampshire education officials, who announced plans Oct. 30 for a new rigorous state board of exams to be given to 10th graders.

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On the road to great achievement, the late bloomer will resemble a failure: while the late bloomer is revising and despairing and changing course and slashing canvases to ribbons after months or years, what he or she produces will look like the kind of thing produced by the artis …

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future of work

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Apple should buy Pandora use their predictive and streaming technologies as a promotional tool for the iTunes store. Keep the Pandora application for the iPhone but build in the technology to iTunes.

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Within hours of his demise in 1955, Albert Einstein's brain was salvaged, sliced into 240 pieces and stored in jars for safekeeping.

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