September 28, 2009
What if you finished reading this article and remembered every detail of it for the rest of your life? That’s the problem people with super-autobiographical memory face—and yes, it’s often referred to as a problem, not a gift. Their minds are like a computer hard drive that retains everything: dates, middle names, license plate numbers, even what they eat for lunch on a daily basis There are only four confirmed super memory cases, a disorder experts say is somewhat related to OCD, though no doubt there are plenty others who haven’t been identified yet.
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Do you think this is a gift or not? Why or why not?
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September 21, 2009
SYDNEY (Reuters) – For bored commuters with already bulging pockets, a shirt design company has come up with the perfect solution to keep them entertained on the trip to work — a commuter tie with a hidden iPod storage pocket.
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Do you think this is a good invention? Why or why not?
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September 6, 2009
Scientists Examine How a Disorder Makes Some See a Color-Coded World
By Lee Dye – March 28
Even as a child, the man called “WO” knew he saw the world quite differently than his friends.
Letters, numbers and words all had distinct colors.
He knew it, because he could see it with his own eyes. To him, a page of black print didn’t look black at all. It was a symphony of color. The number “2″ was bright orange, “5″ was green, and so forth.
His young friends, no doubt, thought he was a bit nutty, but he had one close ally. His mother understood. She knew words had colors, because she, too, could see them. They weren’t the same colors her son saw, but they were colors, nonetheless.
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Describe in your own words, what it would be like to live with synesthesia.
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