Wednesday, April 09, 2008

SAMSON'S RIDDLE (out of the lion's belly, may yet come sweet)


Rare brain disease gave scientist "a torrent of creativity"




































POSTED BY CORY DOCTOROW, on Boing Boing a directory of wonderful things

Dr Anne Adams was a Canadian scientist who died of a rare brain disease -- frontotemporal dementia -- which caused her to give up her lab and engage in an ecstasy of creative effort (and an agony of frustration as her mathematical ability slipped away), mostly centered on Ravel's Bolero, a composition he wrote in the throes of the same disease.

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