June 29, 2009
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Annals of Religion and Politics:
Calvinist Epiphany
for St. Peter’s Day“Have your people
call my people.“
– George Carlin
Diamond life, lover boy;
we move in space
with minimum waste
and maximum joy.– Sade, quoted here on
Lincoln’s Birthday, 2003This is perhaps suitable
for the soundtrack of
the film “Blockheads“
(currently in development)–
Diamond Life – Related material from Wikipedia:
“Uta Frith, in her book Autism: Explaining the Enigma,[5] addresses the superior performance of autistic individuals on the block design [link not in Wikipedia] test. This was also addressed in [an] earlier paper.[6] A particularly interesting article demonstrates the differences in construction time in the performance of the block design task by Asperger syndrome individuals and non-Asperger’s individuals. An essential point here is that in an unsegmented version of the task, Asperger’s individuals performed dramatically faster than non-Asperger’s individuals: [7].”
5. Frith, Uta (2003). Autism: explaining the enigma (2nd ed. ). Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Pub. ISBN 0-631-22901-9.
6. Shah A, Frith U (Nov 1993). “Why do autistic individuals show superior performance on the block design task?”. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 34 (8): 1351–64. PMID 8294523.
7. Caron MJ, Mottron L, Berthiaume C, Dawson M (Jul 2006). “Cognitive mechanisms, specificity and neural underpinnings of visuospatial peaks in autism”. Brain 129 (Pt 7): 1789–802. doi:. PMID 16597652. “Fig 3″.
Lover Boy –
Related material from a film (see Calvinist Epiphany, June 17):
Related material from another film:
For the relevance of this maxim to autism, see Markoff Process (March 4, 2009).
