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"Squealing"? I Guess This Is A Groupie Article

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Jacob Barnett Is Even Better in 3D | VICE United States

"Jacob started explaining how compressed carbon can refract light through the bloodstream and computationally code biological information. I started squealing and my eyes started popping out of my head.

'I know, it's exciting,' he said."
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    After reading that article it felt like that stupid nyan cat video that loops for 10 hours and never does anything.
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      Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

      After reading that article it felt like that stupid nyan cat video that loops for 10 hours and never does anything.
      Yeah, l read a bit, and realized how long this was!

      He might be a genius, but he obviously needs to get out more! :rolleyes:


      And the person who wrote this needs to shorten it by 90%!


      Shane

      Now where is the Nyan Cat video? :rolleyes:
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        Originally Posted by tagiscom View Post

        Yeah, l read a bit, and realized how long this was!

        He might be a genius, but he obviously needs to get out more! :rolleyes:
        I searched his name and found a 60 Minutes piece on him. He's actually a pretty fascinating and remarkable boy. Some are saying he's smarter than Einstein. His IQ is higher, and he's working on his own 'expanded version' of Einstein's theory of relativity.

        That article didn't do him justice at all.
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          Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

          I searched his name and found 60 Minutes piece on him. He's actually a pretty fascinating and remarkable boy. Some are saying he may be smarter than Einstein. That article didn't do him justice at all.
          I think he handled himself quite well.

          He is a remarkable boy and I think he owes a lot of that to his mother. I read "The Spark," his mother's book on raising him, from the early days of his autism when he was around 2 and experts diagnosed him as essentially hopeless, to emergence of his genius. She bravely dismissed the whole lot of them and approached his autism in ways that concentrated on what he can do rather than fixating on what he couldn't do. She laid the groundwork that allowed his mind to flourish. I think the system has constricted and smothered a lot of brilliant minds, and society is worse off for it.

          Originally Posted by waterotter View Post

          TB, you have waaaaay way too much time on your hands
          Not really. I'm just talented in squandering what time I do have.
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          • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
            Originally Posted by thunderbird View Post

            I think the system has constricted and smothered a lot of brilliant minds, and society is worse off for it.
            I agree wholeheartedly. And it's not just autistic minds that are being beaten into submission. I think you'll appreciate this video:

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            • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
              Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

              I agree wholeheartedly. And it's not just autistic minds that are being beaten into submission. I think you'll appreciate this video:

              Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? - YouTube
              I'll give it a listen after my son falls asleep again. I know about being stigmatized and boxed in from a very young age. It causes needless damage, hollow of any merit or meaning.
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              • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
                Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

                I searched his name and found a 60 Minutes piece on him. He's actually a pretty fascinating and remarkable boy. Some are saying he's smarter than Einstein. His IQ is higher, and he's working on his own 'expanded version' of Einstein's theory of relativity.

                That article didn't do him justice at all.

                True, but Einstein could barely pass an IQ test, he just figured out how to do things in his life that would allow big ideas to come to him.

                But he was a genius in that he knew how do allow such ideas to appear to him.


                Yep, schools are there to create workers or soldiers.

                That explains why some of our greatest inventors, were called dunces or throw out of school!


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                • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
                  Originally Posted by tagiscom View Post

                  True, but Einstein could barely pass an IQ test...
                  Where did you get that, Shane? Biographers say he never had his IQ tested. It's been estimated many times, usually between 160 and 180, but it's been estimated as high as 230.
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                    Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

                    Where did you get that, Shane? Biographers say he never had his IQ tested. It's been estimated many times, usually between 160 and 180, but it's been estimated as high as 230.
                    IQ tests are, at best, a suggestive reflection of someone's potential in life. When someone achieves a caliber of accomplishment like Albert Einstein or Richard Feynman did, they scored the highest level in the best intelligence test there is: life itself.
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    TB, you have waaaaay way too much time on your hands
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