A Brilliant Brain

#1 Nikola Tesla

1856–1943 — Serbia/USA

Brilliance: 10/10 | Stewardship: 10/10 | Index: 100

He lit the world and died in the dark.

#2 Solomon

c. 970–931 BC — Israel

Brilliance: 10/10 | Stewardship: 9/10 | Index: 90

He asked for wisdom. He received everything.

#3 Johann Sebastian Bach

1685–1750 — Germany

Brilliance: 10/10 | Stewardship: 9/10 | Index: 90

Soli Deo Gloria.

#4 Marie Curie

1867–1934 — Poland/France

Brilliance: 10/10 | Stewardship: 9/10 | Index: 90

She refused to patent the process that killed her.

#5 Michael Faraday

1791–1867 — England

Brilliance: 10/10 | Stewardship: 9/10 | Index: 90

A bookbinder's apprentice who harnessed lightning.

#6 Louis Pasteur

1822–1895 — France

Brilliance: 10/10 | Stewardship: 9/10 | Index: 90

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

#7 Blaise Pascal

1623–1662 — France

Brilliance: 10/10 | Stewardship: 9/10 | Index: 90

He built the first computer, then gave everything away.

#8 Jesus Christ (Jesus of Nazareth)

c. 4 BC – c. AD 30/33 — Roman Judea (modern-day Israel/Palestine)

Brilliance: 9/10 | Stewardship: 10/10 | Index: 90

A humble carpenter whose radical message of love, justice, and forgiveness reshaped civilization and inspired billions.

#9 George Washington Carver

1864–1943 — USA

Brilliance: 9/10 | Stewardship: 10/10 | Index: 90

God gave them to me. How can I sell them?

#10 Daniel

c. 620–538 BC — Babylon/Israel

Brilliance: 9/10 | Stewardship: 10/10 | Index: 90

Integrity through every empire.

#11 Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)

c. 563–483 BC — India/Nepal

Brilliance: 9/10 | Stewardship: 9/10 | Index: 81

He left a palace to understand suffering.

#12 Norman Borlaug

1914–2009 — USA

Brilliance: 9/10 | Stewardship: 9/10 | Index: 81

The Green Revolution. He saved a billion people from famine. A billion.

#13 Augustine of Hippo

354–430 AD — North Africa

Brilliance: 10/10 | Stewardship: 8/10 | Index: 80

From hedonist to the most influential theologian in Western history.

#14 Johannes Kepler

1571–1630 — Germany

Brilliance: 10/10 | Stewardship: 8/10 | Index: 80

He heard the music of the spheres.

#15 Grigori Perelman

1966– — Russia

Brilliance: 10/10 | Stewardship: 8/10 | Index: 80

Proved the Poincaré conjecture. Declined the $1 million prize and the Fields Medal.

#16 Socrates

469–399 BC — Greece

Brilliance: 10/10 | Stewardship: 8/10 | Index: 80

He knew that he knew nothing. They killed him for it.

#17 Abraham

c. 2000 BC — Mesopotamia/Canaan

Brilliance: 8/10 | Stewardship: 10/10 | Index: 80

He left everything on a promise.

#18 Martin Luther King Jr.

1929–1968 — USA

Brilliance: 8/10 | Stewardship: 10/10 | Index: 80

I have a dream. He paid with his life.

#19 Abraham Lincoln

1809–1865 — USA

Brilliance: 8/10 | Stewardship: 10/10 | Index: 80

Self-educated. Preserved the Union. Freed the enslaved. Assassinated.

#20 William Wilberforce

1759–1833 — England

Brilliance: 8/10 | Stewardship: 10/10 | Index: 80

46 years. One cause. He won.

The Oath They Stopped Taking

Twenty-four hundred years ago, on a small island in the Aegean Sea, a physician articulated a commitment so clear that it survived intact for two millennia: *I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm.*

The Same Hands: Searle, Monsanto, Rumsfeld, and the Architecture of Mineral Depletion

Mineral depletion as policy is easy to discern upon review. Mankind lived to tell the tale and can come back stronger than ever -cognitively and otherwise!

The Organ Meat Protocol: The Ancestral Cognitive Fuel That Modern Nutrition Forgot

For millennia, organ meat has been prized for nutrition. It is time to remember that ancestral wisdom in the quest for cognitive potency.

They Lowered the Bar: How Institutions Engineered a Zinc-Deficient Population and Why It Matters for Your Brain

Would it surprise you to find out that Zinc levels have declined while at the same time the recommended levels for Zinc also declined?

Give Not Thy Strength: The Zinc Depletion Cycle That Nobody Wants You to Understand

The original post in this series — on morning erections as a diagnostic signal — generated more engagement, more pushback, and more quietly grateful messages than anything else on this site. It struck a nerve. Men knew something was wrong. They just didn't have the framework to understand what.