At first I just chalked up the down webserver to some poor schmed's server going belly-up under the weight of the slashdot effect. But no, that link is sitting on the New York Times server:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/magazine/22S
But for some reason I can get to the NYT.com frontpage, albeit after some delay. Their search results do not show anything matching that article name ("Savant for a Day") and Google doesn't have anything either.
Ca bien. Will just have to wait for it to die off.
Searching for "Allan Snyder" found plenty of other links. Like this one. [100megsfree4.com] I had no problems accessing the NYT article [nytimes.com], that link you posted seems chopped off.
Prof Snyder certainly doesn't seem to be a flake. I almost expected his "thinking cap" to be another $cientology E-meter or an Orgone box. Now, can we use it to create "Focused" individuals? (Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky.)
Synder was also featured in a Discover magazine article [discover.com] about this same device and its effects.
Additionally, the Discover article also talked about the various instances of sudden onset autism. One of the examples presented was the case of a 3 year old girl named Nadia, who was capable of drawing a picture of a horse and rider in such detail that it would've taken a experienced artist to do. The article shows one of Nadia's drawings, which IMHO is very beautifully rendered.
Now, if only to find that machine so I can calculate the Mayan calendar past 2012...
Major newspapers and tabloids have a several month lag time from the science journals, even the mainstream ones like Discover. So, rather than point to the digested version in the NYT, Weekly World News, MSNBC, Slate, and others, look up the original article in the Lancet, Nature, Science, Discover, Scientific American. If that's too hard, then fire up BIOSIS at your University and use that to find the online journal...
"Be there. Aloha."
-- Steve McGarret, _Hawaii Five-Oh_
Slashdot Effect (Score:5, Interesting)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/magazine/22S
But for some reason I can get to the NYT.com frontpage, albeit after some delay. Their search results do not show anything matching that article name ("Savant for a Day") and Google doesn't have anything either.
Ca bien. Will just have to wait for it to die off.
Re:Slashdot Effect (Score:1)
Re:Slashdot Effect (Score:2)
" Oh man, how long can this discussion go when you _can't_ RTFA?"
This is Slashdot, man. Stupidity has no boundaries. It could go on until the sun extinguishes.
Re:Slashdot Effect (Score:2)
Some of us, atleast I, read it yesterday when it was linked to from just about every other news site.
Re:Slashdot Effect zapped! (Score:1)
Searching for "Allan Snyder" found plenty of other links. Like this one. [100megsfree4.com] I had no problems accessing the NYT article [nytimes.com], that link you posted seems chopped off.
Prof Snyder certainly doesn't seem to be a flake. I almost expected his "thinking cap" to be another $cientology E-meter or an Orgone box. Now, can we use it to create "Focused" individuals? (Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky.)
Snyder featured in article over a year ago... (Score:5, Informative)
Additionally, the Discover article also talked about the various instances of sudden onset autism. One of the examples presented was the case of a 3 year old girl named Nadia, who was capable of drawing a picture of a horse and rider in such detail that it would've taken a experienced artist to do. The article shows one of Nadia's drawings, which IMHO is very beautifully rendered.
Now, if only to find that machine so I can calculate the Mayan calendar past 2012...
-Cyc
Checking your sources (Score:1)