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Father’s Day is today: that scrap of holiday love thrown the way of fathers everywhere, because people must have felt bad that Dads were left out of the glory of Mother’s Day. Unless you’re a Dad, in which case you know that women rule; that Mother is the word for God on the lips of children everywhere (to paraphrase Crow author J. O’Barr); that Mothers lead and Fathers provide the support role, at least in traditional male-female parenting pairs.
We Dads are smart enough to say all that because it’s true.
Daniel Tammet is fascinating… The 31 year-old is capable of doing astronomical calculations in his head, speaks 9 languages (including one he invented) because of a condition called synesthesia.
Synesthesia is a combining of the sense that allows for increased sensory experience. Tammet can literally feel numbers in his head and see them as well. Any number from 0 to 10,000, Tammet knows its name, what it likes to drink and a few other