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Science Frontiers The Unusual & Unexplained
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... Frontiers ONLINE No. 87: May-Jun 1993 Issue Contents Other pages Home Page Science Frontiers Online All Issues This Issue Sourcebook Project Sourcebook Subjects Calculating prodigies, gnats, and smart weapons In a thought-provoking letter to New Scientist, J. Margolis commences with the observation that calculating ... (idiot savants), who are often also mentally retarded, can easily and almost instantaneously recognize 20-digit prime numbers! Gifted mathematicians with so-called photographic memories cannot perform such mental feats using known methods for identifying primes. What do the calculating prodigies know that the rest of ...... Other pages Home Page Science Frontiers Online All Issues This Issue Sourcebook Project Sourcebook Subjects Some Highly Focussed Minds Here is a modern study of calculating prodigies, idiot savants, or, as Rimland prefers, "autistic savants." Calculating prodigies are rarely idiots; that is ... with IQs below 30: rather they are almost always autistic, displaying gross disturbances in communication, and/or motor behavior. Rimland and his colleagues have studied 5,400 autistic children and found 10% of them to have extraordinary abilities. We hear most often ...... . 32: Mar-Apr 1984 Issue Contents Other pages Home Page Science Frontiers Online All Issues This Issue Sourcebook Project Sourcebook Subjects What makes a calculating prodigy? The above title is also that of a new book by Steven Smith. Naturally, the book is full of anecdotes ... the phenomenal accomplishments of calculating prodigies, both unlettered children and such famous scientists and mathematicians as Euler, Gauss, and A.C. Aitken. The latter "...had the uncanny power of mentally computing, to a long string of decimals, the values of e and ...... and in him we see the glimmerings of capabilities we may all have but cannot tap. Unlike so many "savants" and "calculating prodigies," Kerr is not deficient in "normal" human skills. He is just unusually smart. He has partially penetrated ... sort of barrier that seems to prevent most of us from drawing from a reservoir of remarkable mental capabilities. In savants and calculating prodigies, this barrier is ruptured and these talents flow readily to the fore-- but usually at the cost of some "normal" ...... 219:507, 1983.) Comment. Do humans have talents that seem unimportant now but which may be useful some day? Calculating prodigies, eidetic imagers, etc. From Science Frontiers #26, MAR-APR 1983.© 1983-2000 William R. Corliss Other Sites ... Interest SIS. Catastrophism, archaeoastronomy, ancient history, mythology and astronomy. Lobster. The journal of intelligence and political conspiracy (CIA, FBI, JFK, MI5, NSA, etc) Homeworking.com. Free resource for people thinking about working at home. ABC dating ...... of abilities, given the many possible skills in the human repertoire. Why do so many idiot savants have the obscure skill of calendar calculating? Why does the triad of retardation, blindness, and musical genius appear with such regularity among them? Why is there a ... A Review of the Syndrome," American Journal of Psychiatry, 145: 563, 1988.) Comment. Note that many child prodigies, who are different from idiot savants, lose their talents as they age. From Science Frontiers #58, JUL-AUG 1988. ...... that is, individuals with exceptional mathematic, mechanical, musical, and artistic talents, but with serious deficiencies in other human attributes. Calculating prodigies and other "idiot savants" immediately come to mind here. Sachs claims that perfect pitch is is even more common among ... savants. In fact, all muscial savants seem to have it. Perfect pitch is also common among those with Williams syndrome, which he defines as: "a-- syndrome which predisposes to hyperacusis and exceptional development of auditory, musical, and verbal skills, ...... 227 Atmospheric optics 288-290 Atoms clusters, 319 Auriferous gravels artifacts, 24 Auroras 255 sounds 287 Australites 221, 223 Autistic savants( See Calculating prodigies) Avalanches correlated with moon, 215 Aye ever-growing teeth, 136 percussive foraging 136-137 Azilian pebbles 41 Aztalan 3, 6 B ... temple 17-18 Babirusa 130 Bacteria 175-181, 182, 183 archaeobacteria 185 cometary origins 81 Cretaceous 177 directed mutation 180-181 extraterrestrial 65, 81, 119, 120, 179 gold deposits 216 iron deposits 216 magnetic sense 176 Martian 65 milky seas 260-261 mitochrondria 127, 189, 190 ...
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