How Smart Can We Get?

How Smart Can We Get?

See inside Einstein’s brain, learn how to boost your memory, meet people who became savants after an injury, and more. Airing October 24, 2012 at 10 pm on PBS

PHow do you get a genius brain? Is it all in your genes? Or is it hard work? Is it possible that everyone’s brain has untapped genius–just waiting for the right circumstances so it can be unleashed? From a man who can immediately name the day of the week of any date in history to a “memory athlete” who can remember strings of hundreds of random numbers, David Pogue meets people stretching the boundaries of what the human mind can do. Then, Pogue puts himself to the test: after high-resolution scanning, he finds out how the anatomy of his brain measures up against the greatest mind of the century: Albert Einstein.