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The Power of the Mind: Esref Armagan a blind man who can paint

Esref Armagan is a 54-year-old contemporary Turkish painter who has been completely blind since birth. He grew up poor and uneducated, and never had an art lesson, yet he paints detailed pictures in bright colors and 3-point perspective without assistance. For decades, Armagan was the subject of curiosity, awe, and skepticism in his native Turkey. Then in 2004, he became the subject of scientific brain studies in the United States. The astonishing results have been published in science journals, magazines, and newspapers around the globe. In 2008 the Discovery Channel aired a documentary which featured Armagan and three others with extraordinary abilities called The Real Superhumans.

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60 Inconvenient Personal Development Truths

60 Inconvenient Personal Development Truths | Science News | Scoop.it
Practical Tips for Productive Living...

I know you want to be the best you can be. We all do. But sometimes we look for success in the wrong places or we try to achieve it in the wrong ways.

Here are 60 inconvenient truths about personal development to help you stay on track.

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I Am Science

On January 27, 2012, science writer and marine biologist Kevin Zelnio started the Twitter hashtag #IamScience, encouraging scientists to share their individual stories about their traditional or unconventional paths that brought them to where they are today. The response was overwhelming, with hundreds of tweets pouring in over just a few days.

I've collected and excerpted just a handful of them, and set them to Reckless Kelly's "Wicked Twisted Road", a song that Kevin mentioned in his original post as holding particular significance for his own path toward science.

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BPS Research Digest: Hearing about scientists' struggles helps inspire students and boosts their learning

BPS Research Digest: Hearing about scientists' struggles helps inspire students and boosts their learning | Science News | Scoop.it

Science suffers from an image problem. Many students see the subject as too difficult and they think scientists are aloof boffins with big brains. A new study out of Taiwan tests the benefits of teaching high-school physics pupils about the struggles of eminent physicists - Galileo, Newton and Einstein.

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