008 The Functional Nerds
In the eighth episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by the 3rd member of the 3rd Nerd Army: Blake Charlton! Blake is both a novelist (Spellwright published by TOR) and a medical student, so we talked about: science fiction-like technologies being used in the world today, bionic limbs, nerve / brain rewiring, neural plasticity, neural perception, gross anatomy, the phantom limb phenomenon, Flash Forward, gross morphology, The Ultra-Humanite, the autism spectrum, music, Rex Lewis, a young musician with autism who could play back melodies that, for most, would take months to learn & had perfect pitch and a phenomenal memory, Stephen Wiltshire, an artist diagnosed as autistic who draws and paints detailed cityscapes sometimes after having only observed them briefly, Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks, savantism, Music Instinct: Science and Songs, Bobby McFerrin, Arthur C Clarke’s Childhood’s End, ADD, Dyslexia, Synesthesia & the awesome human brain. Oh, yeah, and there’s this whole contest thing happening…
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Huzzah! Blake Charlton is a Third Nerd. Nice. I must listen, but not yet…grrr…Stupid Work. Blah!
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Finally got to listen to the whole podcast (I am a wee, little bit behind).
Great show. One thing I wondered about when Blake mentioned about synesthesia: Did Robert Jordan know about the phenomenon? After all, Rand and others, discovered they could tell when an Aes Sedai was using Saidar by a tingle (or was it something else?).
Anyways, very cool show. I wonder how the contest went? I had a great idea for it, but didn’t get the time to do anything with it.