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What Makes You So Smart, Lord Browne?
The windows in the office of Lord Browne overlook the roof of the Royal Academy of Arts. “Whenever I need inspiration I look outside the window and I can see statues of Cicero, Archimedes, Plato, and...
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What Makes You So Smart, Kathryn Minshew?
After graduating from Duke University, Kathryn Minshew worked as a management consultant and at the Clinton Health Access Initiative before embarking on the entrepreneurial life. She founded Pretty...
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What Makes You So Smart, Jeremy Johnson?
Jeremy Johnson is helping to change the face of education in the United States. After winning a business plan competition while at Princeton University, he embarked down a path that eventually saw him...
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What Makes You So Smart, Brent Beshore?
An entrepreneurial streak runs in Brent Beshore’s family. His great-great grandfather invented the bedspring, and his grandfather built the family company into a massive, multi-billion dollar...
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What Makes You So Smart, Peter Attia?
In high school, Peter Attia planned to be a professional boxer. He trained for six hours a day, meticulously tracking his progress on a daily basis. A teacher altered his trajectory, and the Canadian...
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What Makes You So Smart, Noah Tarnow?
Noah Tarnow lost Jeopardy! by $600, so he started his own game show and trivia quiz company, Big Quiz Thing. (It’s more complicated than that, but only slightly.) The New York-based former stand-up...
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What Makes You So Smart, Jonathan Corbblah?
When I arrived at Umani Burger on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, Jonathan Corbblah was immersed in a trivia game on his phone. Just obliterating some poor unsuspecting soul, clicking the correct answer...
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What Makes You So Smart, Teenage International Chess Master?
This is the partial text of an email I received while trying to schedule an interview with University of California-Los Angeles freshman Luke Vellotti: “I am taking 23 credits, so there is always...
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What Makes You So Smart, Maja Mataric?
Maja Mataric’s journey from Belgrade to sunny southern California, where she spends her days developing robots, involved stops in Kansas and Cambridge. The professor and Chan Soon-Shiong Chair in...
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What Makes You So Smart, MacArthur Genius?
All Yoky Matsuoka wanted to do growing up was to become a professional tennis player. She idolized John McEnroe and rose through the rankings to as high as 21st in her native Japan. But injuries...
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What Makes You So Smart, School Principal?
Evan Glazer is the principal of the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, the Virginia school that had the highest average SAT score in the nation last year. Glazer, who earned his...
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What Makes You So Smart, Brilliant 12-Year-Old?
Charles Wang earned an 800 on his Math II, Biology, and Chemistry subject tests and scored 5 on the AP Biology, Chemistry, and Calculus BC exams before he turned 12. He reads books with titles like...
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What Makes You So Smart, Middle School Math Teacher?
More than half a century ago, Vern Williams walked into a middle school math classroom—and he’s never really left. After graduating from the University of Maryland in 1972, he began teaching in...
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What Makes You So Smart, Computer Programmer?
Andrew Kirmse sold his first computer program before he graduated from high school and went on to develop Meridian 59, the first massive 3-D multi-player online game, with his brother after finishing...
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What Makes You So Smart, Web Editor?
Owen Thomas is an outlier in his family, the only one who didn’t fall in love with computer programming. But that didn’t stop Thomas from finding a career in technology, first as a webmaster for trade...
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