Tiger
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121774906&ps=cprs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Peek
[Edited on 23-12-2009 by Tiger]
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johnhara1
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Unbelieveable guy.
RIP
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DC90
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Originally posted by johnhara1
Unbelieveable guy.
RIP
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Tiger
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Couldnt button up his shirt or switch a light switch, but could read a book an hour at a page every 8 -10 seconds and memorize the entire volume 
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lostboy
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Unbelievable guy.
RIP
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stubs
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Couldnt button up his shirt or switch a light switch, but could read a book an hour at a page every 8 -10 seconds and memorize the entire volume
I find this fascinating.. I think he may have been natures little warning to us all about just how powerful our brains are without creating a super-being 
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johnhara1
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Kim Peek was born with macrocephaly, damage to the cerebellum, and, perhaps most important, agenesis of the corpus callosum, a condition in which the bundle of nerves that connects the two hemispheres of the brain is missing; in Peek's case, secondary connectors such as the anterior commissure were also missing. There is speculation that his neurons made other connections in the absence of a corpus callosum, which results in an increased memory capacity.
His brain will be in a lab somewhere now undergoing all kinds of tests....
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sxibeast
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RIP 
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