Devil King
10-13-2011, 01:18 PM
In 2000, a boy was born in Charite Hospital in Berlin, Germany. Unlike the other babies, his muscles were not soft and undefined. They were bulging from his arms and legs. As the child grew, he developed muscles twice the size of his peers, while maintaining half the body fat, and before the age of 4 he was able to hold seven-pound weights with his arms extended.
This little Hercules, who is now a healthy 7-year-old, is the first human with a proven mutation in myostatin, a protein that limits muscle growth.
Daniel Paul Tammet is a British high-functioning autistic savant gifted with a facility for mathematical calculations, sequence memory, and natural language learning. He was born with congenital childhood epilepsy. Experiencing numbers as colors or sensations is a well-documented form of synesthesia, but the detail and specificity of Tammet's mental imagery of numbers is unique. In his mind, he says, each number up to 10,000 has its own unique shape and feel, that he can "see" results of calculations as landscapes, and that he can "sense" whether a number is prime or composite. He has described his visual image of 289 as particularly ugly, 333 as particularly attractive, and pi as beautiful. Tammet not only verbally describes these visions, but also creates artwork, particularly watercolor paintings, such as his painting of Pi.
Simply amazing - you have characters that surpass known human limitation all the time. I wonder if human evolution will reach the point where humans will eventually have a slew of these abilities.
http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/07/02/28/myostatin-blockers-the-potential-benefits-and-risks-of-these-forthcoming-super-muscle-drugs.htm
http://www.oddee.com/item_91848.aspx
This little Hercules, who is now a healthy 7-year-old, is the first human with a proven mutation in myostatin, a protein that limits muscle growth.
Daniel Paul Tammet is a British high-functioning autistic savant gifted with a facility for mathematical calculations, sequence memory, and natural language learning. He was born with congenital childhood epilepsy. Experiencing numbers as colors or sensations is a well-documented form of synesthesia, but the detail and specificity of Tammet's mental imagery of numbers is unique. In his mind, he says, each number up to 10,000 has its own unique shape and feel, that he can "see" results of calculations as landscapes, and that he can "sense" whether a number is prime or composite. He has described his visual image of 289 as particularly ugly, 333 as particularly attractive, and pi as beautiful. Tammet not only verbally describes these visions, but also creates artwork, particularly watercolor paintings, such as his painting of Pi.
Simply amazing - you have characters that surpass known human limitation all the time. I wonder if human evolution will reach the point where humans will eventually have a slew of these abilities.
http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/07/02/28/myostatin-blockers-the-potential-benefits-and-risks-of-these-forthcoming-super-muscle-drugs.htm
http://www.oddee.com/item_91848.aspx