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The Brain Injury That Made Me a Math Genius

April 21, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Excerpted from “Struck By Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel”

If you could see the world through my eyes, you would know how perfect it is, how much order runs through it, and how much structure is hidden in its tiniest parts. We’re so often victims of things – I see the violence too, the disease, the poverty stretching far and wide but the universe itself and everything we can touch and all that we are is made of the most beautiful geometric patterns imaginable. I know because they’re right in front of me. Because of a traumatic brain injury, the result of a brutal physical attack, I’ve been able to see these patterns for over a decade. This change in…

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The brain injury that made me a math genius

Lost Horizon Introduces The World To Shangri-La

April 19, 2014 / / 0 Comments

In these days of wars and rumors of wars, haven’t you ever dreamed of a place where there was peace and security, where living was not a struggle but a lasting delight?” Good question, easy answer: Duh. Yes. Yes now, in 2014, and yes in 1937, when those words opened up Lost Horizon, Frank Capra’s big screen contemplation of what happens when regular folks are given the opportunity to live forever in a kind of heaven that exists here on earth. embedded contentThe film is an adaptation of James Hilton’s eponymous 1933 novel, which – fun fact – is Pocket Book #1, and thus often cited as the first mass-market American paperback. The story follows a quintet of Westerners, rounded up by dashing diplomat Bob Conway, who barely escape a …

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Lost Horizon Introduces The World To Shangri-La

Sixteen-Year-Old Artist Wins National Art Competition with Hyper-Realistic Portrait Drawing

April 18, 2014 / / 0 Comments

For the past four years, 16-year-old artist Shania McDonagh has participated in the Texaco Children’s Art Competition, an art contest for children in Ireland held every year since 1955. Just looking at the astounding portrait above, it may come as no surprise that McDonagh has won the top prize for her age category every year since she was 12, and today snagged the top prize for the 2014 competition with this hyperrealistic drawing of a man titled Coleman. The judging panel chairman, Declan McGonagle, director of the National College of Art & Design, remarked that the girl’s work could position her as one of the most talented artists of her generation, and one whose skill could see her become one of Ireland’s foremost portrait artists…

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Spending my days working on

January 3, 2011 / / 0 Comments

Lately I have been spending my days (and nights) inventing safe health care. It is very exciting to at the edge of helping solve some of the most complex issues we face as a nation. I am right down deep in the tech working on things like virtualization of data, dynamic data gathering and prediction, polymorphic schema mapping and data-exchange technologies use semantic reconciliation for highly flexible entity matching fusing many disparate data sources, correlation engines to discover set properties of data and security. Very cool stuff to be working with every day!

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