The Limits Of Genius Av Katie Spalding

<p><b>A hilarious look at how the line between ''genius'' and ''extremely lucky idiot'' is finer than we''d like to admit.</b><br><br>The more you delve into the stories behind history''s greatest names, the more you realise they have something in common: a mystifying lack of common sense. Take Marie Curie, famous for both discovering radioactivity and having absolutely zero lab safety protocols. Or Lord Byron, who literally took a <i>bear</i> with him to university. Or James Glaisher, a hot-air balloon pioneer who nearly ended up as the world''s first human satellite...<br><br>From Nikola Tesla falling in love with a pigeon to non-swimmer Albert Einstein''s near-fatal love of sailing holidays, <i>The Limits of Genius</i> is filled with examples of the so-called brightest and best of humanity doing, to put it bluntly, some really dumb shit. These are the stories that deserve to be told but never are: the hilarious, regrettable and downright baffling lesser-known achievements of the men