As Marc Abrahams writes today (24 November) in EducationGuardian, psychologists spend an enormous amount of energy arguing about what genius is, and where it comes from. But then, with the dear departed, it’s easy to appreciate their formidable legacies to the world. To paraphrase the late great Nick Drake, time has told us; we can clearly see with objective eyes the seismic impact their work had â” and more importantly, still has â” on the world. We’ve narrowed it down to 10 choices, and we’d love to see who you think is the greatest living genius â” so get voting here . One the one hand he was half of the greatest popular song-writing partnership in history; on the other he wrote the Frog Chorus. In order to post a comment you need to be registered and signed in.
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The American Library Association (ALA) has realised this link, offering people the chance to play games and learn more about the real stories behind them. However, our game begins in 1459 and ends in 1499 so the Leonardo players encounter and interact with is much younger,” said Corey May, lead scriptwriter for the game at Ubisoft Montreal. When it comes to exploring history through games, World War II has been a popular setting for shooter games over the years but The Saboteur, a new action game from Electronic Arts, serves up the French resistance to Nazi occupation as its setting and introduces a protagonist based on a real-life war hero. Players step into the boots of Sean Devlin, who was inspired by William Grover-Williams, a half-English/half-French grand prix champion driver for the French Bugatti racing team in the 1930s. Tom French, lead designer of The Saboteur at Pandemic Studios, said to many people, World War II was only fought by soldiers and viewed as epic battles like the Normandy Beach invasion or Pearl Harbour.
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NEW YORK (AP) - An interactive exhibit featuring life-size models of Leonardo da Vinci’s 500-year-old inventions and machines opens in Times Square on Friday. Although best known for painting the masterpiece “Mona Lisa,” da Vinci also designed a fantastical array of futuristic flying machines, robots, weapons and mechanical devices. Highlights of the exhibit include the “Great Kite” flying machine, a working prototype of his “Self-Propelled Cart, and physical models of his mechanical bat and lion. Visitors can use touch screens to turn the artist’s numerous sketches into three-dimensional models. All content © Copyright 2001 - 2009 WorldNow and WCAX. For more information on this site, please read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service .
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Leonardo da Vinci dreamed up plans for all that and more, but few ever made it out of his sketchbooks. It also uses souped-up, PlayStation-style engineering that lets you flip through his Codex notebooks, rotate the images and watch them take on a 3-D life of their own. Then the screen pulls away to reveal a replica of his workshop (try not to knock over that skeleton in the corner on your way in). Inside the main gallery are 10 models of his inventions, touch-screen stations, a life-size rendering of “The Last Supper” and a retouched version of the Mona Lisa in which her sallow skin has turned practically rosy. Conceived 500 years ago as a present for the king of France, da Vinci made it so that pulleys and ropes made it walk and even drop a bunch of lilies at the king’s feet.
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