GENIUSES (continued):
On Aug. 21, 2013 ...
AND ONE OF THOSE YOUNG MEN, initially in critical condition, still has not returned home. KYLE JOHNSON of Grand Forks Health Department’s Mosquito Control team is in rehabilitation at Courage Center in Golden Valley, Minn., for traumatic brain and brain stem injuries.
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• When Edison was developing the phonograph, it wasn’t as a form of entertainment. He was more interested in its educational and business possibilities – teaching elocution and diction, recordings for the blind, dictation, and recording a teacher’s instructions. During the 1880s, this brilliant individual filed for a new patent on the average of every five days, more than 1,300 items over the course of his creative life. Because he had dyslexia, Edison spent just three months in public school before his mother chose to deal with his learning disability by homeschooling him. Although we mainly remember his “big” inventions, such as the stock ticker, voting machine, motion picture camera and projector, phonograph, and incandescent light bulbs, Edison was also the inventor of waxed paper! As to being a genius, Edison had this to say, “Genius is one percent inspiration and 99% perspiration.” • Kim Ung-Yong’s IQ is approximately 210, perhaps the highest in the world. By his third birthday, he was reading Japanese, Korean, German, and English, and was enrolled as a physics student at South Korea’s Hanyang University. At 8, he was invited by NASA to study in the U.S. and work for the organization. After 10 years with NASA, he returned to Korea and obtained his doctorate in civil engineering.
Tidbits Laughs A little boy asked his father, “Dad, where did my intelligence come from?” His father replied, “Well, son, you must have gotten it from your mother, because I still have mine.”
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: i Scientists have retrieved 800,000-
year-old ice from a glacier in Antarctica. i A reindeer’s nose heats air on the way to its lungs.