savants

The other amazing thing about these political savants is how they never actually specify what form this “fighting like hell” will take.

Matthew Yglesias » The Old Reagan Magic 2010

The other amazing thing about these political savants is how they never actually specify what form this “fighting like hell” will take.

Matthew Yglesias » The Old Reagan Magic 2010

The color ordering systems I have presented show how certain savants used their understanding of the sciences and of art to emphasize different physical forms or highlight different underlying theories.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

Steve Silberman, who wrote a brilliant piece on geeks and autism in Wired a couple years back, has a great long feature in the current issue about autistic "savants" -- people who have an instinctive, brilliant grasp of some abstruse task, such as music or math.

Boing Boing: November 23, 2003 - November 29, 2003 Archives 2003

To this end, he had brought with him more than 150 so-called savants -- engineers, artists, cartographers, physicists and zoologists -- whose much-celebrated scientific and archaeological discoveries would help to redeem the expedition in the eyes of posterity.

Going East for Empire Mark Molesky 2008

The result of centuries of arcane developments in the deepest bowels of derro civilizations, the savants were the only dwarves who had the unusual ability to cast very powerful spells, ones capable of levitating large objects or even call - ing down storms of ice.

Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003

The result of centuries of arcane developments in the deepest bowels of derro civilizations, the savants were the only dwarves who had the unusual ability to cast very powerful spells, ones capable of levitating large objects or even call - ing down storms of ice.

Flint the King Kirchoff, Mary 1990

Idiots with Ph. Ds. Idiots of a rather specialized genus, whom I call savants idiots, of whom the former Fed chairman is perhaps the most visible and emblematic example "

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Idiots with Ph. Ds. Idiots of a rather specialized genus, whom I call savants idiots, of whom the former Fed chairman is perhaps the most visible and emblematic example "

pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2008

Idiots with Ph. Ds. Idiots of a rather specialized genus, whom I call savants idiots, of whom the former Fed chairman is perhaps the most visible and emblematic example "

pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2008