Three Pounds, Ten Watts and a Cloud of Dust, Part 3

When a blow to the head creates a savant..

"It sounds crazy. But (there are) actually one of a number of people who've miraculously developed artistic, musical, or mathematical abilities as a result of a brain injury. There's Orlando Serrell, who was struck in the head with a baseball as a 10-year-old and found he could remember the weather for each day following his accident. There's Derek Amato, who woke up after hitting his head at the bottom of a pool and became a master pianist at 40, despite lacking any sort of musical training. There's Alonzo Clemens, whose verbal and cognitive abilities stopped developing at the age of three due to a head injury but who can assemble incredibly detailed sculptures of animals in a matter of minutes."

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/05/eureka-when-a-blow-to-the-head-creates-a-sudden-genius/257282/

Three Pounds, Ten Watts and a Cloud of Dust, Part II

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2012/04/north_korea_s_2_mb_of_knowledge_taunt_how_many_megabytes_does_the_human_brain_hold_.html

In our never-ending quest to understand our 2nd favorite organ, another great read on the brain.  This time, the topic is our storage capacity...Just how many terabytes of data can our brains hold?

Battery Park

360 degree photography by Randy Scott Slavins

See link below for story and fantastic photos

at Huffington Post

 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/28/randy-scott-slavins-alternative-perspectives_n_1450164.html

Three pounds, ten watts and a cloud of dust

Illustration from Wired Magazine

Johnathan Lehrer is a contributor to Wired Magazine and the author of several books.  His topic in this great article from Edge.com revolves around the disconnect between the banal physicality of the brain and how utterly profound our conscious experience "feels" to us.  Brilliant read and catalyst for my minimalist description of our existence: "Three pounds, ten watts and a cloud of dust."  Enjoy.


http://edge.org/conversation/chimeras-of-experience

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 Timelapse of the moon and mercury over Brisbane, Australia

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120426.html