Are More Eccentric Artists Perceived As Better Artists?
A study finds part of the reason people love Lady Gaga and Vincent Van Gogh is that these are very eccentric artists, and people have strong, unconscious stereotypes that eccentric artists are better.
In a new biography, Graham Farmelo digs deep into the archives and personal papers of a little-known Nobel-winning physicist. Farmelo discusses <em>The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom</em> and his theory that Dirac may have been autistic.