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Daniel Tammet is on good morning america right now. He's a high fuctioning autistic savant. It's amazing. The way in which he describes how his mind functions, how he understands numbers, is simply astounding. Each number from 1 to 10000 has its own unique texture, color, shapw, qualities. He says that 6 is a small dark cold number. To understand sadness he envisions himself inside the hole of that small dark cold empty number.

When he closes his eyes, he sees a beautiful landscape where these numbers exist. He can easily compute mathematics. They asked him to divide 13 by 97 and he did it in just a few seconds, if that. He has a book. It must be fascinating.

And he can learn languages in a week. Icelandic. In a week. The brain is a really amazing faculty - interesting the trade-offs between mental facility and emotional understanding, though.

Just sharing.

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Google Scholar has proven much more productive than, oh, JSTOR. Google Scholar, you rock.

It has brought up much more applicable articles than most of my library approved resource searches have. Also, I am annoyed that the University of Washington does not have access to a couple databases that some promising looking articles are on. Damn you UW. You are no UW.

Speaking of my favorite UW, the one in Wisconsin, would you Madison peeps mind keeping half an ear out for museum/history/archaeology job openings in the area? Because it's such a hotbed of museum activity....