Intelligence

Vienna valued music; it got Mozart. We value technology; we got Mark Zuckerberg. Author Eric Weiner explains how place and culture shape the rise of geniuses.

An IQ-esque test like the SAT might be a good evaluator of your parents’ income or your background, but it isn’t a great predictor of real-life success. Turns out innate talent isn’t as important as society thinks it is.

The NSA’s ability to collect mass amounts of phone data might be coming to end as a bill on the topic moves through Congress. A former CIA head says it’s a necessary check against abuse, but one journalist thinks the agency has moved beyond the program altogether.

The Secretaría de Inteligencia allegedly got its start helping Nazis move to Argentina. It’s now a powerful spy agency that the president of Argentina is blaming for the recent murder of a prosecutor, and is trying to disband.

Modern war isn’t always fought on a physical battlefield, and the US Army is making new moves to try and keep hackers and cyber attacks away from its computers. Yet some of these vital battles are being fought by young men and women who are new to the field themselves.