What is genius? Would you recognize a genius if you met one? We’ll introduce you to four geniuses – or at least four people who just landed MacArthur fellowships – the so-called “genius award” that hands out 625,000 dollars no-strings-attached to the lucky winners. Four exceptionally creative people, musicians Jeremy Denk and Vijay Iyer, novelist Karen Russell and astrophysicist Sara Seager, in this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge.
