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What is genius? ‘She’s a genius’ is a phrase that is often used rather loosely and in different contexts – right from describing Nobel Prize-winning scientists to sports-persons who manage feats not easily accomplished by others. The Oxford English Dictionary defines genius as ‘native intellectual power of exalted type; extraordinary capacity for imaginative creation, original thought, invention or discovery’. Genius has been the subject of study and wonder for centuries by scientists and laymen; for instance, the May 2017 issue of National Geographic has a cover feature on genius.
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