From Boing Boing: BrilliantDreams -- a site for lucid dreaming -- hosts a page of famous discoveries and inventions inspired by dreams, like the dream in which Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz discovered the Benzene molecule: This … [Read more...]
The Foolish Wise Ones
BBC Learning: Fragments Of Genius. This is a remarkable show on autistic savants. I've included the link to the BitTorrent file of the show. Here are some of the highlights. Derek Paravicini is completely blind and autistic. Numbers are difficult … [Read more...]
How To Be An Expert
From: How to be an expert The only thing standing between you-as-amateur and you-as-expert is dedication. All that talk about prodigies? We could all be prodigies (or nearly so) if we just put in the time and focused. At least that's what the … [Read more...]