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Short Shots v4 - Interesting and Amazing
News Alert (Update): Police are looking for a blow-up figure of SpongeBob SquarePants swiped from a Minnesota Burger King. They've found a ransom note which starts off: "We have SpongeBob." It then demands, "Give us ten Crabby Patties, fries and milkshakes." (via Michelle Malkin)
Paralyzed Dogs Walk - Dogs with paralyzed hind legs regained the ability to walk after getting a shot of a chemical cousin of antifreeze that helped repair nerve cells in their damaged spinal cords, scientists reported.
America Loses its Best Minds - The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week, sparking calls for increased patrols to stop the illegal immigration.
Twelve-Year-Old Genius - Jay Greenberg has composed five symphonies and has written pieces in less than an hour that major symphonies have performed. [hat tip: Parableman]
This must be a trick - A 38-year-old with degrees in psychology, education and computer science needed only 11.8 seconds to calculate the 13th root of a 100-digit number in his head, setting a new record, organizers said. [via Political Brief]
Posted by tim at December 4, 2004 8:16 PM
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Posted by: Beth at December 5, 2004 12:39 AM
It must be a trick? Many people have been known to have incredible mathematical abilities. It usually goes along with some condition like autism. What's probably going is that the brain develops much more in ways that have to do with systematizing and enjoying the kind of reasoning and focusing involved with mathematics but failing to develop in ways involving interpersonal communication and emotional intelligence. Some have even portrayed it as being more male than most males, since being male tends to go along with those abilities, just not to that extreme, and being female tends to go along with the abilities autistic people are less developed in.
Posted by: Jeremy Pierce at December 5, 2004 6:54 AM
"it must be a trick" - I wrote in jest but it apparently did not come across that way. What is amazing to me is I don't think I could assimilate a 100 digit number in the 12 second time period much less type it into a computer. Amazingly, the same person memorized a 22 digit number in 4 seconds.
Posted by: Tim at December 5, 2004 8:28 AM
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