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Within the society, he's known as a bidder with deep pockets, a savant's knowledge and refined taste.

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"It's part police procedural, part monster movie, a funereal entertainment that is an unexpected repudiation of Mr Fincher's most famous movie, the serial-killer fiction Seven, as well as a testament to this cinematic savant's gifts."

GreenCine Daily: Zodiac. 2007

Traditional theory misses the fact that that “bringing hypotheses to bear on facts is an activity that goes on, ultimately, not in the savant's head but in industry” (p. 196).

Max Horkheimer Berendzen, J.C. 2009

Those who treat Sri Aurobindo as an icon must understand that Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence, as played out in Independent India, is as much weighted on the side of the prosecution as in the famous savant's time.

Archive 2008-12-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

Those who treat Sri Aurobindo as an icon must understand that Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence, as played out in Independent India, is as much weighted on the side of the prosecution as in the famous savant's time.

Alipore Bomb case was bigger than 1857. Sadly, our 'eminent' historians never told us this Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

A look at an autistic savant's brilliant mind from Talk of the Nation, about Daniel Tammet's memoir Born on a Blue Day.

Archive 2007-01-01 Kay Olson 2007

As the two scholars worked upon the same material from different angles, and as the English writer was unacquainted with the German savant's monograph until after Burton had written his Terminal Essay, it follows that the conclusions arrived at by these two scholars must be worthy of credence.

Satyricon 2007

A look at an autistic savant's brilliant mind from Talk of the Nation, about Daniel Tammet's memoir Born on a Blue Day.

Various NPR disability stories Kay Olson 2007

Ramachandran's musings on savants, who display exceptional skills in a very specific field, is illuminating in this respect, as he "unashamedly speculates" that a savant's talents may stem from an enlarged section of the brain called the angular gyrus.

Archive 2006-06-01 Mac 2006

It certainly raises moral questions, but there are any number of applications where a savant's abilities could prove invaluable if they could be reliably reproduced.

nessus Diary Entry nessus 2004