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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions

Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?

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Exceptional talent and the trouble with IQ tests

Is a high IQ really a mark of genius, or does something else explain the exceptional?

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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics

Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.

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The quest to breed gifted children

If you had the chance, would you choose a genius baby?

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  • Shepherds adoring the Christ Child. Etching by Robert van Audenaerd after Pietro da Cortona.
  • Cape Colony, South Africa: an African woman and child. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • A woman personifying France (?) rescuing a baby from the tentacles of an octopus representing tuberculosis. Colour lithograph by L. Cappiello, ca. 1922.
  • Childhood mortality: interior of a nursery with eight babies, watched by Death who opens the window from outside and reveals an industrial cityscape. Colour lithograph by Alice Dick Dumas.
  • Lord Durham, surrounded by schoolboy politicians, is victimised in a game and jostled by Lord Melbourne. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.
  • A semi-naked woman places a child on the ground and the child runs away. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A clothed child picks up a doll from the ground and walks away. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A bereaved mother mourning her dead daughter in a graveyard, stricken with remorse for having treated her harshly in her lifetime. Engraving by R.L. Wright.
  • A naked child gives a bouquet to a semi-naked woman sitting on the ground. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A woman carrying a child. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
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