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?