The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places From Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley (65 page)

Scotland and,
142
,
153
,
180
,
192

Socrates,
42
,
48
–49,
57
,
235
,
237
,
244
,
289
,
324
–25

Athens and,
9
,
19
–20,
23
,
31
–34,
36
–38,
40
,
46
,
51
,
61
–62,
98
,
170
,
276
,
316

Brady and,
37
,
41
,
44

as conversationalist,
34
,
37

as the Dude,
32
–33,
36
,
134

physical appearance of,
33
,
41
,
44
,
160
,
275

symposia and,
38
,
40

timing of,
33
–34

walking of,
32
,
58

Song Dynasty,
66
–67,
75
,
83
,
86
–87,
89
,
288

sophists,
31
,
49
,
55
,
63

sourdough,
321
–23

Soviet Union,
121
,
170

Spain,
117
,
210
,
256
,
292

Sparta,
20
,
44
,
55
,
58
,
62
–63,
295

specialization,
77
,
127
,
206
,
285

Specola,
128
–29

sprezzatura,
115
,
123
,
136

Stallings, Alicia,
32
–36,
42
,
51

Stanford University,
22
,
303

Silicon Valley and,
288
,
290
,
293
–95,
305
,
314

Terman and,
291
–96,
305

statues,
51
,
67
,
74
,
103
,
176
,
194

David
and,
97
,
99
,
104
,
116
,
121
,
133
–35

Edinburgh and,
153
,
160

Florence and,
119
,
129

Freud and,
260
,
267
–68

Greece and,
24
,
60
,
289

steam engine,
142
,
144
,
163

Stekel, Wilhelm,
275

Sternberg, Robert,
58
,
90
,
94
–95

Stevenson, Robert Louis,
151
,
156
,
163
–65,
214

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(Stevenson),
151

Stravinsky, Igor,
18
,
273

“Strength of Weak Ties, The” (Granovetter),
302
–3

strong ties,
303
–4

Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The
(Kuhn),
266

successful failures,
270
–71,
311

Sunnyvale strip mall,
304
–5,
326

superfluidity,
179

Surgeons Hall Museum,
147
–50

Su Tungpo,
87

exile of,
80
,
156
,
276

painting and,
74
,
76
–77,
89

poetry and,
74
–77,
89
,
156

West Lake and,
74
,
77
,
92

Swaminathan,
213
–14

Switzerland,
9
,
15
,
73
,
256
,
311

symposia,
38
,
40
,
52
,
55
,
168
,
173
,
212

Symposium
(Xenophon),
33

synesthesia,
236

Tagore, Rabindranath,
194
–96,
198
–201,
203
–5,
210

ancestral home of,
195
–96,
198
–99

Calcutta and,
194
–95,
201
,
204

Einstein and,
200
–201

Taigu Café,
66
,
69

Taoism,
93
–94

tea,
93
,
169
,
212

Calcutta and,
189
,
193
,
203

China and,
75
,
101

Edinburgh and,
164
–66

Hangzhou and,
65
–66,
68
–69,
78
,
91
,
164

technology,
29
,
76
,
128
,
133
,
182
,
252
,
318
,
324

China and,
67
–68,
94

Hangzhou and,
66
,
70

radio and,
188
,
204
–5,
208
,
290
–91,
295
,
305
,
315

Silicon Valley and,
37
,
146
–47,
150
,
288
,
290
–91,
298
–99,
301
–2,
305
,
307
,
309
–10,
314
–15,
317

Temple of Zeus,
24
,
32

Terman, Fred,
291
–96,
305

Terman, Lewis,
291
–92

thambos,
24

“Theory of the Café Central” (Polgar),
254

thinking,
33
,
53
,
92
,
126
,
155
,
162
,
198
,
235
,
265
,
272
,
297
,
308

China and,
67
,
84
,
87
,
93

creativity and,
25
,
60
,
110
–11,
153
,
194
,
224
,
230
,
255
,
258
,
268
,
274
,
325

divergent,
22
,
39
,
88

Einstein and,
200
,
269

Greece and,
14
,
21
–24,
36
–37,
58

groupthink and,
170
,
303