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Léon Gambetta

A French lawyer and republican politician who proclaimed and played a prominent role in the Frenc...

Amedeo Avogadro

An Italian scientist, most noted for his contribution to molecular theory.

John H. Sununu

An American politician who was White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush.

Kim Peek

An American savant whose life became the inspiration for the main characterter of the 1988 film R...

Benjamin Constant

Benjamin Constant

A Swiss-French political activist and writer on political theory and religion.

Gilbert Burnet

A Scottish philosopher and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury who was one of the few close friend...

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To Creation and Beyond: The Remarkable Life of Leslie Lemke

To Creation and Beyond: The Remarkable Life of Leslie Lemke

wisconsinacademy.org

On a warm summer night in June of 1980, Leslie Lemke gave a piano concert in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. That concert was my introduction to an extraordinary man and his surprising talent.Leslie’s talent stems from a rare but remarkable condition called savant syndrome in which a person with an underlying disability such as autism or other central nervous system illness or injury also has some extraordinary ability that stands in stark contrast to their overall handicap.I’ve been engaged in savant syndrome research since 1962, writing and publishing widely on the subject, participating in numerous broadcast and documentary productions, even consulting for the movie Rain Man. Today I’m a research consultant on autism at St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac. But I was working in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health when I got to know Leslie and his incredible story....

Daniel Defoe and the Written Constitution

Daniel Defoe and the Written Constitution

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Today, as constitutionalism spreads around the globe, it is embodied de rigueur in written documents. Even places that sustained polities for centuries without a written constitution have begun to succumb to the lure of writtenness. America, we think, spawned this worldwide force, inaugurating a radically new form of political organization when it adopted the U.S. Constitution as its foundational text. Yet the notion of the written constitution had, in fact, received an earlier imprimatur from the pen of Daniel Defoe, English novelist, political pamphleteer, and secret agent. Plying his tra...

Meet TIME's First-Ever Kid of the Year

Meet TIME's First-Ever Kid of the Year

The world belongs to those who shape it. And however uncertain that world may feel at a given moment, the reassuring reality seems to be that each new generation produces more of what these kids—five Kid of the Year finalists selected from a field of more than 5,000 Americans, ages 8 to 16—have already achieved: positive impact, in all sizes.Read about how we picked the Kid of the Year here. And watch TIME’s Kid of the Year broadcast special on Dec. 4 at 7:30 p.m. ET on Nickelodeon.Kid of the Year: Gitanjali Rao, 15Lone Tree, Colo....

Kim Peek, the Real Rain Man

Kim Peek, the Real Rain Man

psychologytoday.com

Kim Peek, who lent inspiration to the fictional character Raymond Babbitt — played by Dustin Hoffman in the movie Rain Man — was a remarkable savant. A savant is an individual who — with little or no apparent effort — completes intellectual tasks that would be impossible for ordinary people to master.Kim Peek’s special abilities started early, around the age of a year and a half. He could read both pages of an open book at once, one page with one eye and the other with the other eye. This style of reading continued until his death in 2009. His reading comprehension was impressive. He...

To Creation and Beyond: The Remarkable Life of Leslie Lemke

Daniel Defoe and the Written Constitution

Meet TIME's First-Ever Kid of the Year

Kim Peek, the Real Rain Man

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Carolus Linnaeus: Founder of Modern Taxonomy

Biology

Carolus Linnaeus: Founder of Modern Taxonomy

Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778), Swedish botanist and zoologist, laid the foundations for the biological binomial nomenclature system still used today. As the father of modern taxonomy and ecology, he is known as the “most famous botanist of all time.”2He was also “a creationist and thus an enemy of...

Lazare Carnot, a forgotten piece in the Napoleon Bonaparte jigsaw

Mathematics

Lazare Carnot, a forgotten piece in the Napoleon Bonaparte jigsaw

In the night of 17/18 Fructidor An V (3-4 September 1797), exactly four years after the first September massacres of 1793, Directors Barras, Reubell and La Réveillière-Lépeaux set in motion their coup d’état deigned, supposedly, to bring France back from the royalist abyss into the safety of orth...

Freud's Dream Interpretation: A Different Perspective Based on the Self-Organization Theory of Dreaming

Psychology

Freud's Dream Interpretation: A Different Perspective Based on the Self-Organization Theory of Dreaming

The self-organization theory of dreaming proposes that the sleeping brain is a self-organizing system that can combine discontinuous and incongruous neuronal signals (i.e., different elements of dreams) into a relatively continuous narrative during sleep (Kahn and Hobson, 1993; Kahn et al., 2000,...