01968cam a2200301 i 4500 884830583 TxAuBib 20230727120000.0 230428s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2023016476 9780316529525 HRD 29.00 0316529524 HRD 29.00 TxAuBib rda Spalding, Katie, author. Edison's ghosts [BOOK] : the untold weirdness of history's greatest geniuses / Katie Spalding. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2023. 342 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-332) and index. “As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius – but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” So begins Katie Spalding’s spunky takedown of the Western canon, and how genius may not be as irrefutably great as we commonly understand. While most of us may never become Einstein, it may surprise you to learn that there’s probably a bunch of stuff you can do that Einstein couldn’t. And, as Spalding shows, the famous prodigies she explores here were quite odd by any definition. Edison's Ghosts is filled with examples of the so-called best of humanity doing, to put it bluntly, some really dumb shit. You’ll discover stories that deserve to be told but never are: the hilarious, regrettable, and downright bafflingly lesser-known achievements that never made it into our history books, until now. Provided by publisher. 20230727. Eccentrics and eccentricities Anecdotes. Gifted persons Anecdotes. Anecdotes.