Autistic Einstein?

Loren Booda

Read between the lines: http://slatest.slate.com/id/2289409/

Andre

Well it seems that he has that in common with Einstein and Newton

humanino

He is just great !

Proton Soup

speaking of Einstein, how come i don't know what he sounds like? his image is ubiquitous in our culture, but he is always silent.

bp_psy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-1Z2wi2uSA

nismaratwork

He shpoke a lot auf German, und Ingles vas not his forte?

fourier jr

he has a developmental disorder?

nismaratwork

Somehow I'm not shocked that someone so mathematically minded would be limited in areas of social expression, but I wonder if you can conclude that this is autism spectrum, or unique to a certain level of genius?

Certainly the performance given goes beyond mere savant behavior.

Proton Soup

thanks!

still, you would expect more. kissinger sounds funny too, but i know what he sounds like. einstein was a rock star in his day, he even met marilyn monroe. you'd expect at least a few lectures on tape, something.

nismaratwork

From what I've read (Manjti Kumar talks about this) Einstein was not much of a lecturer, very informal an likeable, but, "often unprepared, making frequent errors." although he would ask his class to correct him graciously.

Who knows... the man was a unique kind of genius, maybe language just wasn't his forte, or maybe he had no interest? I truly don't know, but until you mentioned it I'd known about his reticence, but never considered it in the context of, "wow, I've never HEARD the man!"

FtlIsAwesome

http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/sound/voice1.mp3

MathematicalPhysicist

Boring!!!

I want to play NHL 2012!!!

DR13

Yeah... it seems like there is another prodigy. I don't know how smart he actually is. I would imagine some is just media hype but he obviously knows his stuff.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theloo...skys-the-limit

It would be cool for someone to do a study on kids that are labeled as a "prodigy". Then track their lives and see what actually happens to them. I wonder if there would be any correlation between future success and what field the prodigy works in (are physics prodigies more likely to develop than musical ones, or vice versa). Also, what would be the affect of family life: if you do not encourage they may not reach their potential, but over-encouragement leads to burnout.

JaredJames

All of these child prodigies is all well and good, but I've never heard of them again.

I watched a show a few years back that was going to "track their progress in the coming years" and it showed up once again - with a somewhat different 'cast' of children - and that was it.

I think they're pushed too hard, never get to have a childhood, and then burnout (possibly even down to the eventual freedom that is granted at college / university).

lisab

An extraordinary kid like him should be given what he needs to achieve his potential, but I doubt splashing around in the media will help him do so.

Impressive kid, though.

Proton Soup

what is he talking about with light accelerating sideways ?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theloo...skys-the-limit

Proton Soup

he may get bored with it in a few years and go into horticulture