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big science savant Kim Peek

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:22:05 GMT

clipped by: skymerci
clipper's remarks: a broadcast about the most famous world savant - Kim Peek, according the story of whose the movie "Rainman" was created.

Clip Source: video.google.com

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Tags: savant, rainman, kim peek, beautiful mind, memory, brain, genius, fast reading, autism

savants from mid-Sixties

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:13:46 GMT

clipped by: skymerci
clipper's remarks: ..possibly the oldest video on savantism.
to check the answers visit convertalot.com/calendars.html .

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: savant, savant syndrome, beautiful mind, maths, genius

possible savant syndrome

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:54:11 GMT

clipped by: skymerci
clipper's remarks: this is an example of possible savant syndrom i ran into recently. notice that there are no countries marked on the map...

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: savant, world map, memory, autism, beautiful mind, genius

Savant overall: look how and why

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:39:27 GMT

clipped by: skymerci
clipper's remarks: ..an introduction to savantism, a great collection of famous savants' stories. long vive the beautiful mind!

Clip Source: video.google.com

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Tags: savant, beautiful mind, brain, rainman, genius, music savant, memory, math savant, drawing savant

musical savant

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:54:36 GMT

clipped by: skymerci
clipper's remarks: ..one more incredible example of savant sindrome

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: savant sindrome, music, genius, autism

Fun with clouds

Wed, 09 May 2007 07:21:36 GMT

clipped by: coconutshell
clipper's remarks: I don't know who came up with this, but it's cool!!!

Clip Source: www.baraskit.se

Fun with clouds!

Cool images.

A cloud is a visible mass of condensed droplets or frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body...

Tags: photos, interesting, art, clouds, perspective

Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About Death

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:26:19 GMT

clipped by: locolapapa
clipper's remarks: See all ten on my clipmarks or visit the site.

Clip Source: www.shorttext.com

1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go -- the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch

2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated

3. 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider

4. Alexander's funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road from Egypt to Babylon was built to carry his body

5. When inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle

6. Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed people

7. It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we eat these days

8. An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for 1,130 years

9. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and 'buried' in space

Tags: death, facts, interesting

The Kaye Effect - Weird Phenomenon

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:42:52 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes

Clip Source: scienceblogs.com

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A Cool Movie of the Kaye Effect

This is an incredibly cool video of a strange phenomenon called the Kaye effect. It includes high speed video of the effect, and a demonstration of their mathematical analysis of the effect, and their prediction and verification of the effect.

The Kaye effect is an incredibly bizarre phenomenon. Basically, if you take a substance like liquid shampoo, and allow a thin stream of it to pour down from a height onto a smooth surface, the stream will periodically "bounce", producing a stream leaping up from the point of contact. Watch it - it's seriously cool.

Tags: kaye effect, kaye, science, video, shampoo, weird, liquid

Unusual, disturbing, and haunting pictures.

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:01:49 GMT

clipped by: k9riley99

Clip Source: xmb.stuffucanuse.com

Some of these are facinating, some are disturbing, all tell a story.

Tanker facing an approaching storm

That picture of the girl trapped in the mud was taken by and copyrighted to Frank Fourier. It depicts Omaira Sánchez, 13, who was trapped with her legs pressed by debris from her own house for three days; she and 23,000 more people died there. It occurred on November 13, 1985 when the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano produced a huge mudslide in Armero, Colombia (South America).

When rescue teams tried to help her, they realized that her legs were trapped. The only feasible option was to pull her out by breaking and ripping her legs off. Omayra remained strong until the last moment of her life. According to people who were by her side during those moments, the little girl wanted to live, saying her only worry was to go back to school.

Tags: natural storms, fascinating, disturbing, haunting pictures, pulitzer prize winning photo by kevin carter

Librarian Chick Wiki: hundreds of free learning resources

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:37:09 GMT

clipped by: enbar
clipper's remarks: Very cool. I haven't had a chance to dig into more than a few of the links, but looks to be a tremendous resource.

Clip Source: librarianchick.pbwiki.com

Hello, and welcome to Librarian Chick!

This a list of free resources for students and educators... and anyone else who's hip to learning. Feel free to click away! Though many of these resources could be listed under multiple categories, I've only added them once so you can CTRL+Click all links to open in tabs and never open the same page twice.

Librarian Chick's Learning Center - Search for more free educational information, sites, games and software!
Librarian Chick's Free Book Search - Quickly search for free audio books, text books and eBooks!

Tags: via:donationcoder, library, links, cool, research

spectacular pictures- rare cloud formation-

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:24:34 GMT

clipped by: vbk_kb

Clip Source: freshpics.blogspot.com

Rare Cloud Formations

An amazing compilation of worlds rarest and most beautiful cloud formations..

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Labels: Rare Cloud Formations

Tags: nature pics

Global Warming: A closer look at the numbers

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:58:10 GMT

clipped by: bferman
clipper's remarks: Hmm, it appears that some scientists have finally done the math on global warming. I guess climate change isn't really that big of a deal after all.

Clip Source: mysite.verizon.net

Water Vapor Rules
the Greenhouse System

Just how much of the "Greenhouse Effect" is caused by human activity?

It is about 0.28%, if water vapor is taken into account-- about 5.53%, if not.

Water vapor constitutes Earth's most significant greenhouse gas, accounting for about 95% of Earth's greenhouse effect (4). Interestingly, many "facts and figures' regarding global warming completely ignore the powerful effects of water vapor in the greenhouse system, carelessly (perhaps, deliberately) overstating human impacts as much as 20-fold.

Human activites contribute slightly to greenhouse gas concentrations through farming, manufacturing, power generation, and transportation. However, these emissions are so dwarfed in comparison to emissions from natural sources we can do nothing about, that even the most costly efforts to limit human emissions would have a very small-- perhaps undetectable-- effect on global climate.

Global Warming:
A closer look at the numbers

Tags: global warming, climate change, politics, environment

pi is wrong

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:33:26 GMT

clipped by: skymerci

Clip Source: www.math.utah.edu

Tags: pi, wrong, maths

savant drawings

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:51:32 GMT

clipped by: skymerci

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: savant, drawings, beautiful minds, rome

savant syndrome, beautiful minds

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:25:23 GMT

clipped by: skymerci

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: savant, syndrome, minds, sculptures

Clipmarks | skymerci's clips

big science savant Kim Peek

savants from mid-Sixties

possible savant syndrome

Savant overall: look how and why

musical savant

Fun with clouds

Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About Death

The Kaye Effect - Weird Phenomenon

A Cool Movie of the Kaye Effect

Unusual, disturbing, and haunting pictures.

Librarian Chick Wiki: hundreds of free learning resources

Hello, and welcome to Librarian Chick!

spectacular pictures- rare cloud formation-

Rare Cloud Formations

Global Warming: A closer look at the numbers

Water Vapor Rulesthe Greenhouse System

Global Warming:A closer look at the numbers

pi is wrong

savant drawings

savant syndrome, beautiful minds

Water Vapor Rules
the Greenhouse System

Global Warming:
A closer look at the numbers