Eric Weiner likes to think of himself as a â philosophical traveler.â The former correspondent for NPR has made a second career out of studying the intersection of places and ideas, with books such as ...

The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley by Eric Weiner Published in January of 2016. The places that Weiner does choose in his ...

When Eric Weiner sat down to write his new book he had to tackle a big question first: How do you define genius? "That's not as easy as it sounds," he tells NPR's Rachel Martin. "I have a slightly ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Not long ago, I spent a day in Waterloo, Canada, visiting with a few dozen scientists and engineers. There probably aren’t too many college students in ...

Renaissance Florence, Enlightenment Edinburgh, Mozart's Vienna: why have certain places at certain times created such monumental leaps in thought and innovation? This is the question at the heart of ...

Eric Weiner likes to think of himself as a "philosophical traveler." The former correspondent for NPR has made a second career out of studying the intersection of places and ideas, with books such as ...