MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'daniel tammet'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:02:19 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3272997&cid=t_203064_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2Fxmww43wvlsw%2F (Editor’s Note: contributor Scott Barry Kaufman recently interviewed Daniel Tammet, one of the 100 known prodigious savants living at the present time. Their in-depth conversation –summary and links follow Scott’s reflections below– provoked a powerful reaction in Scott’s mind, as you are about to read). Last night I was eating dinner with my parents back in my hometown in Philadelphia. I was telling them about my interview with Daniel Tammet, and how I was working on a post about my reflections on the interview. My father, who reads everything I write (which can be awkward sometimes!), looked at me and said, plainly and simply, “I see a lot of similarities between you and Daniel, Scott.” Those words were a kind of crystallizing moment for me. I su... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3272997 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:13:06 +0100 3272997 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2296756&cid=t_203064_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Fpi-dish.html Get the code:-Cut and pastefrom this littleboxy thing below Autism awareness month is nearly upon us, so I have a new design, with "Daniel Tammet" in mind, for those of us ordinary folks without savant skills. Criticisms so far:-1. The numbers are too big2. The numbers are too small3. There are not enough numbers, 50 numerals is stingy4. The numbers are anti-clockwise5. It has to end with a zero or serious pain ensues6. The numbers are upside down7. Where are the fish?8. Why can’t we have negative numbers instead?9. Green is betterPlease feel free to add your own criticism and comments so that I can adjust and try to accommodate.Cheers dearsIf you like what you read, send it to someone in 'need.' (Source: Whitterer on Autism) Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2296756 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:52:00 +0100 2296756 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2021578&cid=t_203064_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2Fq7WzIwVwu68%2F Those with savant syndrome have “quite remarkable, and sometimes spectacular, talents”—such as being able to recite prime number after prime number or to draw the city of Rome with photographic precision—while also having “serious mental or physical disability” (according to one website). Garrett Heaney in Wishtank describes an exchange two individuals who have been diagnosed with savant syndrome, Kim Peek (the model for Raymond in the movie Rain Man, though Raymond is referred to as “autistic” and as an “autistic savant”) and Daniel Tammet, the author of Born on a Blue Day). In particular, Heaney considers this exchange of words between Peek and Tammet: Towards the end of their first encounter, Kim hugs Daniel and says to him “... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2021578 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:35:49 +0100 2021578 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1809831&cid=t_203064_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FRKl78YBclGo%2F Charlie and I caught the PATH train in Jersey City and got off at 23rd Street in Manhattan. We usually take it all the way to the end at 33rd Street where we catch a subway up to where Jim’s office is near Lincoln Center and get some dinner together but Friday night was different. Philosopher Ian Hacking, Professor Emeritus of the College de France, was giving a lecture on How We Have Been Learning to Talk About Autism as a keynote lecture for a conference, Cognitive Disability: A Challenge to Moral Philosophy. The conference’s stated aim was to explore philosophical questions about three specific populations — people with autism, Alzheimer’s disease, and those labeled “mentally retarded” with those questions specifically being: Personhood: Should individua... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1809831 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:53:25 +0100 1809831