Mystery of Genius: Masters and Madmen

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There is a thin line between genius and madness, it is said. This documentary examines the elevated and uncommon minds of such geniuses as inventor and designer Buckminster Fuller, physicist Robert Goddard, writer Virginia Woolf, composer Ludwig van Beethoven, and scientist Isaac Newton, among others. Many thrive despite extreme conditions and problems; others crumble under the pressure of their success. Mystery of Genius takes us to the labs of MIT and interviews magicians Penn & Teller
Introduction: Mystery of Genius: Masters and Madmen (2:47)
Inauspicious Beginnings (2:00)
Driven to Sculpt, and Happy (2:12)
Scorned Geniuses (2:28)
Genius and Despair Walk Hand in Hand (2:05)
Boy Wonder (2:38)
The Boy That Creates Maps From Cheese (2:02)
What Does Society Owe to Gifted Children? (1:43)
Charles Goodyear (1:37)
Patient Genius (2:17)
Hedy Lamarr (2:01)
Geneticist Kary Mullis (2:11)
Great Groups (2:20)
Marketing Genius (2:03)
Off the Beaten Path (2:16)
The Geochronmechane (2:18)
The Watts Towers (3:03)
Edward Leedskalnin & James Hampton (3:06)
Radio Pioneer Edwin Armstrong's (1:38)
Patents--The Lifeblood of Inventors (2:49)
Battling Thomas Edison (2:02)
Tesla's Fall into Obscurity (2:13)
When Genius Goofs (2:06)
Disappointment in the Face of Achievement (2:08)
Science Advances Mankind, Even in the Face of Destruction (2:16)
Evil Genius (2:06)
Criminal Genius (1:50)
Seeking Validation (1:50)
Seeking Recognition (2:24)
People See What They Expect to See (2:48)
Genius of Deception (2:28)
A Different Kind of Magic (2:44)
Penn Gillette's Thoughts on Genius (2:29)
Darwin Ortiz, Card Shark (2:18)
The Future of Genius (2:04)
The Interaction of Machines (2:53)
The Convergence of Human Thought and Technological Evolution (1:40)
Tissue Engineering (3:06)
The Turing Test (2:08)
Conclusion: Mystery of Genius: Masters and Madmen (0:49)
Credits: Mystery of Genius: Masters and Madmen (0:55)

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