The Magic Garbage Bullet: Part Two

The Wizardry of Science!!
That could be an alternate name for this article, focusing on the absolutely keen affection we have for the High IQs and the Tiger Parent-Mind-Set to drive high IQs and the outcome of this paradise we call Earth.


Read this excerpt:

Could Einstein's Theory of Relativity be a few mathematical equations away from being disproved?  Jacob Barnett of Hamilton County, Ind., who is just weeks shy of his 13^th birthday, thinks so. And, he's got the solutions to prove it.

Barnett, who has an IQ of 170, explained his expanded theory of relativity — in a YouTube video. His mother Kristine Barnett, who admittedly flunked math, did what every other mother would do if her genius son started talking mathematical gibberish. She told him to explain the whole thing slowly while she taped her son explaining his take on the theory.

Read the entire story at:

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/03/26/12-year-old-genius-expands-einsteins-theory-of-relativity/#ixzz1HvFA9JaT

That story is a very interesting narrative, and it is an ancient one. I can remember the story of Jesus discussing the Torah with the elders in the Temple, even though Jesus was but a kid. Nothing like a prodigy to whet our celebrity-seeking appetites! It's in the genes.

Now where are the Prodigies of Nursing and Care? Of Husbandry and Teaching? Where is the Big Media fascination with young prodigies in those arts which enrich our lives and our environment? Or are there no such prodigies? Are Great and Prodigious Things solely restricted to Mathematics?! 

I had a post on a religious order devoted to restoring the Chesapeake Watershed; does anyone care?
http://fatherdaughtertalk.blogspot.com/2011/02/sinum-conservate-save-bay.html

The world's population is growing.
The climate is shifting.
For the most part, we are peoples that have not learned how to share back in first grade.
Until we reward and celebrate humanity's benefactors with at least as great acclaim and attention as we do to unusual abilities that have no direct connection with our welfare, this society will not endure.