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POPSDoes the Human Brain Possess Potential “Super Powers”? Mind expert Allan Snyder of the University of Sydney and director of Centre for the Mind, is certain that all people have these latent super abilities, but only some are able to express them through “malfunctions” of overriding brain functions.
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POPSDo animals think like autistic savants ? I'm sure the animals were thinking like this a long time before people turned up. So far the theory doesn't seem like it will be easy to verify one way or another, but who knows ? We are always discovering things we never expected to know.
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POPSpossible savant syndrome this is an example of possible savant syndrom i ran into recently. notice that there are no countries marked on the map...
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POPSThe Human Camera You won't believe the spectacular drawings done by Stephen Wiltshire, an autistic savant artist. His incredibly detailed drawings of cityscapes and other things have to be seen to be believed. After a 45 minute helicopter trip over Tokyo, he drew an amazingly detailed drawing of the cityscape totally from memory on a huge 10 meter long canvas. His artwork is nothing short of brilliant.
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POPSSavant Wonderful video. I cannot recommend the site (potential bugs).
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POPSIced Coffee Great article from the NYT on iced coffee and link to the recipe.
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POPSThe World's Smartest Man Meet Daniel Tammet - an autistic savant who can perform mind-boggling mathematical calculations, speaks seven languages, but he has trouble telling left from right.
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POPSEyecandy : Image Savant - Spore SPORE is an ongoing software/aesthetic development project that has grown out of a proprietary ultra-high speed particle renderer which runs on Irix, Linux, and OSX.