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What's the reasoning behind altering the submission title? It is most definitely click-bait: To Be a Genius, Think Like a 94-Year-Old and was appropriately being flagged by users precisely for that.

More so a single isolated case of a researcher with an entire lab of young students is not particularly good supporting evidence of some people become more creative with age either -- if the intention is to write about the later an actual over-view of the field or related fields should be required.




The article talks about the average age of Nobel prize winners, of patent holders, and so on.




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