{"id":417,"date":"2006-10-23T23:57:59","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T23:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2006\/10\/the_brainman\/"},"modified":"2006-10-23T23:57:59","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T23:57:59","slug":"the_brainman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2006\/10\/the_brainman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brainman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summary by Scot is worth a read. Because Daniel Tammet is a normal man whose talents came as the result of a seizure, he is able to describe his condition. He can do amazing math (by visualizing it) and learn languages fluently in a week (by &#8220;getting&#8221; their form.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/birdhouse.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/22\/the-brainman\/\"><\/p>\n<p>birdhouse.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/22\/the-brainman\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two extra videos from the show:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.discovery.com\/convergence\/brainman\/videogallery\/videogallery.html\">Numbers in different sizes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.discovery.com\/convergence\/brainman\/videogallery\/videogallery2.html\">Messed up PI.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stories like this are like peekng behind a wonderful curtain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summary by Scot is worth a read. Because Daniel Tammet is a normal man whose talents came as the result of a seizure, he is able to describe his condition. He can do amazing math (by visualizing it) and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2006\/10\/the_brainman\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}