CREEDS OF OUR TIMES

Creeds of Our Times

 

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

 

 

How Smart Can We Get?

 

(60 min; 2012; dvd; English)

 

Directors: Terri Randall, Joshua Seftel

 

 

 

How do you get a genius brain? Is it all in your genes? Or is it hard work? Is it possible that everyone's brain has untapped genius–just waiting for the right circumstances so it can be unleashed? From a man who can immediately name the day of the week of any date in history to a "memory athlete" who can remember strings of hundreds of random numbers, David Pogue meets people stretching the boundaries of what the human mind can do. Then, Pogue puts himself to the test: after high-resolution scanning, he finds out how the anatomy of his brain measures up against the greatest mind of the century: Albert Einstein