21 days ago by Sus Scrofa

At age two, Jake Barnett was diagnosed with autism and his future was unclear. Now at age 13, Jake is a college sophomore and a math and science prodigy. Jake says his autism is key to his success. Morley Safer reports. Jake Barnett is one in 10 million. The Indianapolis 13-year-old has been acing c ...

106 days ago by auditionfree

10-28-11 – Los Angeles, CA>San Diego, CA – We are a drummer, a screamer, and a guitar player. We are looking for a bass player as well as another guitar player. Our main influences on the music we write are Meshuggah, The Arusha Accord, Elitist, Texas in July, August Burns Red, Slipknot, Periphery, ...

115 days ago by Grant

Lately, one my default cartooning methods has been to squeeze an entire children's book into a single comic page. Instead of stretching an idea to 32 pages, I distill it to 8 panels. Due to space constraints, some couplets I write don't make the final cut. Like this highly personal rhyme: If OCD is ...

124 days ago by Ben Chan Benechan, Dip ABRSM

Source: wikipedia Derek Paravicini is blind, has autism. He has the skills classified as a musical savant, which means he can play any piece back perfectly he has ever heard (as most savants can). This reminds me of Mozart's superb memory when he notated the Gregorio Allegri's Miserere from the Vati ...

147 days ago by Matt

Zen and the Art of the Glass Family in J.D. Salinger’s Short Stories Article by Paul Thomson While J.D. Salinger is best known for his 1951 classic The Catcher in the Rye, his own favorite works center on a family of brilliant, reclusive, unorthodox former child prodigies known as the Glasses. (Thin ...

147 days ago by Ben Chan Benechan, Dip ABRSM

South African Taiwanese girl Ying-Shan Tseng is blind yet this child prodigy performs Tchaikovsky and Mozart piano concertos at the tender age of 8. I read about Tseng from an article in the UK's Daily Mail newspaper. How does she learn music, you may ask? The sheet music or score is in Braille musi ...

161 days ago by bigmusic

Piano lessons always seem to bring up the same question from parents: “How long until my child is playing classical music?” What I find is that many people who are not musicians have an idea that any child can be put in two years of piano lessons and suddenly playing something like a Mozart piano co ...

164 days ago by Blackburn

Meet Rene Seranno, he's only 10-years-old but he is already a thousand times better at skating than you will ever be. He's already got so many sponsors that he has trouble remembering all of them and I can only imagine the offers will just keep pouring in as he gets older. He's been skating since he ...

176 days ago by Amigo

Here's the poem. I need to know who wrote it for homework. THE SUPERFICAL The mind sees only that which it longs to see. That is why whispers fade so quickly and settle as a beautified memory, but then we realize that reality is merely perception. Clearly reality is nowhere. Here at the entrance of ...

200 days ago by madamelibrarian

Because I now believe in poetry and all of its possibilities and because I spent many years being oblivious to poetry, I’ve created a new website! My ultimate, ultimate goal is for people far and wide to say, “Poetry is fun,” “poetry is relevant,” and “poetry is pop.” Because even if all of it’s not ...