The genius test - Giles Sparrow

What is the Higgs Boson? Where did life come from? And what are you looking at when you're looking at Modern Art?

Put your knowledge to the test - and learn to think and talk like a genius.

The Genius Test takes you on a journey through humanity's most brain-bending ideas, from the big bang and the origins of life to chaos theory, existentialism and special relativity, challenging you to understand and providing the tools to help you master the big ideas.

Shortcuts to becoming a genius include:

Are you a Genius? quizzes - questions to test your knowledge

The 10 things a Genius would know

Talk like a Genius - intellectual conversation gambits

A Bluffer's summary

The Genius Test challenges you to understand 50 subjects including:

The
Hard Problem of consciousness; the human genome;
Evo-devo; the human
brain;
A.I.; Fermat's Last Theorem; the Riemann Hypothesis; Gdel's
Theorem of Incompleteness;
Post-modernism; Modern architecture;
Keynesianism; Semiotics and Structuralism; Schrdinger's cat; DNA;
Deconstructivism; the mind-body problem;
Superstrings; Quantum Theory;
The Big Bang; black holes...and many more.

Giles Sparrow studied Astronomy at University College London, and works as an editor specializing in popular science. He is the author of - amongst other books - The Genius Test, The Universe and How To See It, The Stargazer's Handbook and Hubble: Window on the Universe and was a major contributor to Dorling Kindersley's Universe.