tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344006012024-03-08T03:21:31.584+08:00The boy who knew too much: a child prodigyThis is the true story of scientific child prodigy, and former baby genius, Ainan Celeste Cawley, written by his father. It is the true story, too, of his gifted brothers and of all the Cawley family.
I write also of child prodigy and genius in general: what it is, and how it is so often neglected in the modern world. As a society, we so often fail those we should most hope to see succeed: our gifted children and the gifted adults they become.
Site Copyright: Valentine Cawley, 2006 +Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.comBlogger1743125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-31906056374735107142016-05-25T03:52:00.000+08:002016-05-25T03:52:56.044+08:00The Winnower article - "Abortion is an "Infinite Crime.""It is some while since I last posted. Life has been busy.<br />
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I have just published an article that some of you might find interesting or important. It is entitled:<br />
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"Abortion is an "Infinite Crime": a Discussion of the Definition, Ethics and Implications."<br />
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It is published on the open access, post publication peer review journal site, The Winnower.<br />
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Please have a read and share it with others via Facebook, Blogs, Twitter, and the mass media if you have influence over them, too. Of all my academic writings, I think this is the most important. Once women understand the full implications of an abortion, fewer will choose that option. Thus, spreading the word about my article, will save the lives of unborn babies. I think that is worth doing. So, please raise awareness about my article. Thank you.<br />
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Please have a read of it here:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.thewinnower.com/papers/4641-abortion-is-an-infinite-crime-a-discussion-of-the-definition-ethics-and-implications<br />
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Thank you, in advance, for any help you can give in raising awareness of my article.<br />
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Valentine Cawley.<br />
<br /></span><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com tells the true
story of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy,
aged seven years and two months, and his gifted brothers.
It is written by his father Valentine Cawley and updated
daily. Thanks for reading.</div>Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-57842236023856684322015-05-07T22:35:00.000+08:002015-05-07T22:35:14.527+08:00My IMDB Pro page, for acting work.I realize that I have rarely posted photos of what I look like, on this blog...in fact, I haven't done so for many years. However, the other day, I joined IMDB Pro - the "bible" for the film and TV industry. On my profile, you will find some very recent photos taken in March 2015.<br />
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So, if you are curious about either how I look these days or what I have been up to in acting, please take a look at my IMDB Pro profile here:<br />
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www.imdb.me/valentinecawley<br />
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You will also find details of some recent acting projects - but note, that only a minority of my film and TV projects are listed on IMDB, because listing something there is quite challenging at times and requires a lot of information from the producers.<br />
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Thank you.<br />
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Written by Valentine Cawley<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com tells the true
story of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy,
aged seven years and two months, and his gifted brothers.
It is written by his father Valentine Cawley and updated
daily. Thanks for reading.</div>Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-38074857712823708582014-04-08T02:41:00.002+08:002014-04-08T02:41:51.831+08:00Mrs Boysis. Please contact me.Mrs Boysis, you left a message for me, on my blog, a couple of weeks back. I posted a reply to your message under the blog post that you had commented on, asking you to leave me an email address with which to correspond with you on the matter of your enquiry. You have not done so, so far. Please do so.<br />
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I would would like to help you with the matter of your enquiry but I have no means to contact you, so I have not been able to do so. So, please post a comment below, leaving me a means to contact you. I shall not post anything private like your number or email address...so don't worry. Thank you.<br />
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Valentine Cawley<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com tells the true
story of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy,
aged seven years and two months, and his gifted brothers.
It is written by his father Valentine Cawley and updated
daily. Thanks for reading.</div>Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-74217829748238473752014-01-06T13:58:00.000+08:002014-01-06T14:03:16.623+08:00Composers for Relief: Supporting the Philippines<div class="MsoNormal">
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Philippines is a charity album, to raise funds for the victims of Typhoon
Haiyan. Ainan, 13, at the time, was invited by Peter Ebbinghaus, the German
producer (from the company Soundtracks and Trailer Music) of this album, to contribute one of his own compositions to the album.
Ainan then went to a recording studio, and, at our own expense, in support of
the charity, recorded five of his compositions, to be offered to Mr.
Ebbinghaus. He chose Renaissance – Ainan’s shortest piece, but the one that
sounded most classical.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Renaissance was made available on Amazon
and iTunes along with the entire album, on December 12<sup>th</sup> 2013. This
marks the first time any of Ainan’s music has been commercially available to
the public. You may download Renaissance from Amazon for just 99 cents, US or
indeed the entire album of 28 tracks by 30 composers (some established, indeed
famous, others up and coming), for just 8.99 USD on Amazon.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I do hope you can all support this charity
initiative by buying the album or Ainan’s piece, if funds are tight. All profits
go to Gawad Kalinga, an NGO working in the Philippines to distribute food
packets to the victims of Typhoon Haiyan. It is also working to reconstruct the
damaged areas.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Some of you know that Ainan started out his
intellectual life as a Chemist, then developed interests in Mathematics,
Computer Programming and many other sciences and humanities subjects. When he
was 12, he taught himself to play the piano and began composing immediately.
Renaissance was composed when he had just turned 13 years old.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Renaissance is the first piece of music Ainan
has ever made available to the world. I hope you take the step of buying it for
your collection. It is just a short piece, yes...but it will one day be seen as
a significant one, simply because it is the first piece of music, Ainan ever
released. Also of note is that Ainan is the person playing the piano, in the
recording...so you get to hear him play, as well as compose.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Of note is that Ainan published Renaissance
in the same weekend that he released the film The Sempiternal, which he conceived,
wrote, directed and edited. Thus he became a film-maker and a recording
artist/professional composer, in the same weekend. That has to be a first of
some kind.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Thanks to Peter Ebbinghaus of Soundtracks and Trailer Music, for inviting Ainan to contribute to Composers for Relief. Ainan much enjoyed the opportunity and feels privileged to have been able to contribute to such a good cause.</span></div>
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Thank you, in advance, for supporting the victims of Typhoon Haiyan by buying Ainan’s music.<br />
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The link to Renaissance, by Ainan Celeste Cawley, on Amazon is here:<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Renaissance/dp/B00H9B6DVI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388983085&sr=8-1&keywords=renaissance+by+ainan+celeste+cawley">http://www.amazon.com/Renaissance/dp/B00H9B6DVI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388983085&sr=8-1&keywords=renaissance+by+ainan+celeste+cawley</a><br />
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The link to Composers for Relief: Supporting the Philippines, the parent charity album, is here:<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H9B5X8M/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp?ie=UTF8&qid=1388983085&sr=8-1">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H9B5X8M/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp?ie=UTF8&qid=1388983085&sr=8-1</a><br />
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Thank you.<br />
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Written by Valentine Cawley</div>
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<span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">If you would like to see an online summary of my academic achievements to date, please go here: </span><a href="http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To learn more of Ainan Celeste Cawley, 10, or his gifted brothers, Fintan, 7 and Tiarnan, 5, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">My Internet Movie Database listing is at:</span><a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm3438598/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://imdb.com/name/nm3438598/</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Ainan's IMDB listing is at </span><a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm3305973/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://imdb.com/name/nm3305973/</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Syahidah's IMDB listing is at </span><a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm3463926/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://imdb.com/name/nm3463926/</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Our editing, proofreading and copywriting company, Genghis Can, is at</span><a href="http://www.genghiscan.com/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.genghiscan.com/</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">This blog is copyright Valentine Cawley. Unauthorized duplication is prohibited. Use only with permission. Thank you.)</span><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;"> </span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com tells the true
story of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy,
aged seven years and two months, and his gifted brothers.
It is written by his father Valentine Cawley and updated
daily. Thanks for reading.</div>Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-21582344519126886252013-12-26T19:49:00.001+08:002013-12-26T19:49:09.448+08:00The Sempiternal: Ainan’s first film as director/writer/editor.<div class="MsoNormal">
On the 15<sup>th</sup> December 2013, Ainan
premiered his first short film, The Sempiternal, as director/writer/editor at
the Malaysian Shorts film festival, at Art for Grabs, Annexe Central Market,
and HELP University (on the 16<sup>th</sup> December 2013).</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Ainan conceived, wrote, directed himself and
edited the film, too, with a co-editor in Ignas Versinskas. This film marks
Ainan’s first venture into a new realm of creativity building on his
composition of the film score for the film Reflection, at the age of 12. This
latter film was premiered at the Vilnius International Film festival earlier
this year.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">This recent revelation of artistic gifts,
as writer, director and composer, may surprise some people, who have long seen
him as a scientist...and in a way, it surprises us, too, to look back on how he
was, when he was very young: ultra-focussed on Chemistry and Maths. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Ainan is beginning to explore the
creativity within him – and I am doing what I can to facilitate him – in this
case, making sure he has the crew and resources he needs, to make the films he
wants to make (or whatever else it is he wants to make).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The Sempiternal will be entered for other
festivals in the coming year. Eventually, we will make it available online for
all to see – and as a permanent record of his first filmic work as
writer/director/editor.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Incidentally, one of the judges of the
Malaysian Shorts festival said after the film had been shown: “If we had an
award for best actor, this would be it”. He was referring to Ainan’s film, The
Sempiternal. I found this heartening, for one simple reason: I was the actor he
was referring to! Thank you Diffan Norman, for your positive feedback.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The IMDB listing for The Sempiternal has
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<span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3417252/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3417252/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3438598/?ref_=tt_ov_st">http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3438598/?ref_=tt_ov_st</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Diffan noted that Ainan was the youngest
film-maker (13 years old at the time), to EVER show a film at the Malaysian
Shorts in its entire ten year history. Malaysian Shorts is a quarterly event
and in that ten year period, would have shown about 500 films. So, that Ainan
should be the youngest person out of 500 or so film-makers, does put his
achievement into context.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Well done Ainan!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Thanks to everyone who made this film
possible, including Nabyla Feyaerts, Michael Hagerty-Roach (my body double) and
Ignas Versinskas (the Director of Photography). </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">A special thanks to Diffan Norman and Amir Muhammad (the founder of Malaysian Shorts), who were the judges for the competition, for choosing to show Ainan's film, The Sempiternal. Thank you.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">(If you would like to support my continued writing of this blog and my ongoing campaign to raise awareness about giftedness and all issues pertaining to it, please donate, by clicking on the gold button to the left of the page.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To read about my fundraising campaign, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-in-support-of-my.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-in-support-of-my.html</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;"> and here: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-first-donation.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-first-donation.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">If you would like to read any of our scientific research papers, there are links to some of them, here: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/02/research-papers-by-valentine-cawley-and.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/02/research-papers-by-valentine-cawley-and.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">If you would like to see an online summary of my academic achievements to date, please go here: </span><a href="http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To learn more of Ainan Celeste Cawley, 10, or his gifted brothers, Fintan, 7 and Tiarnan, 5, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">I also write of gifted education, child prodigy, child genius, adult genius, savant, megasavant, HELP University College, the Irish, the Malays, Singapore, Malaysia, IQ, intelligence and creativity.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">There is a review of my blog, on the respected The Kindle Report here:</span><a href="http://thekindlereport.blogspot.com/2010/09/boy-who-knew-too-much-child-prodigy.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://thekindlereport.blogspot.com/2010/09/boy-who-knew-too-much-child-prodigy.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Please have a read, if you would like a critic's view of this blog. Thanks.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">You can get my blog on your Kindle, for easy reading, wherever you are, by going to: </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/B0042P5LEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284603792&sr=8-1" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/B0042P5LEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284603792&sr=8-1</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Please let all your fellow Kindlers know about my blog availability - and if you know my blog well enough, please be so kind as to write a thoughtful review of what you like about it. Thanks.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">My Internet Movie Database listing is at:</span><a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm3438598/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://imdb.com/name/nm3438598/</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Ainan's IMDB listing is at </span><a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm3305973/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://imdb.com/name/nm3305973/</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Syahidah's IMDB listing is at </span><a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm3463926/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://imdb.com/name/nm3463926/</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Our editing, proofreading and copywriting company, Genghis Can, is at</span><a href="http://www.genghiscan.com/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.genghiscan.com/</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">This blog is copyright Valentine Cawley. Unauthorized duplication is prohibited. Use only with permission. Thank you.)</span><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com tells the true
story of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy,
aged seven years and two months, and his gifted brothers.
It is written by his father Valentine Cawley and updated
daily. Thanks for reading.</div>Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-72577593181307144642013-10-03T13:41:00.000+08:002013-10-03T13:42:22.226+08:00Vikingdom opens in the United States, October 4th 2013<div class="MsoNormal">
Vikingdom is a film by Yusry Abdul Halim,
of KRU studios, in which I play a supporting role. It is not my place to review
it, since I played the role of Warick the Wise and my words would not seem to
be free of influence, therefore. However, I would like to point your way to two
American reviews, that have appeared in the last two days.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The first is from Slant Magazine:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The second is a syndicated review, which
first appeared in the Village Voice, yesterday, but has now appeared in OC
Weekly, and City Pages. No doubt it will spread further in the next few days.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Both reviews are favourable, in general and
give some insight into how the film fits into the context of prior works. What
I found most interesting about these reviews is that Vikingdom is being
received much more intelligently and open-mindedly in the United States, than
in its homeland of Malaysia. It very much seems as if the Malaysian cinema
going public is a bit narrow in its views of what it will accept
whole-heartedly, from a Malaysian director. They seem to have certain
conventional expectations which Vikingdom transgresses.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">For those of you living in America,
Vikingdom has a limited release on October 4<sup>th</sup> 2013. In many
theatres it is just for one night, it seems...so if you want to catch it in the
cinema, October 4<sup>th</sup> is the night to do it. For those of you in or
near New York, Vikingdom is showing at the AMC theatre, 34<sup>th</sup> Street,
for one full week’s run. For others who are not near any of the cinemas in the
listing to follow (which covers 21 cities across the USA), Vikingdom may be
downloaded from iTunes, from October 4<sup>th</sup> 2013, for enjoyment at
home.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.vikingdommovie.com/">http://www.vikingdommovie.com/</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">To set the film in context for you:
Malaysia has never made a film like Vikingdom, before. It is the first attempt
at an internationalized, epic action adventure. It is also a big step forward
on what has been achieved, at any time, by a Malaysian production company in
the past. This production was a co-production with Epic Pictures of Hollywood. Notably, this is also the first time a Malaysian film has ever been shown in US cinemas, at all. So, it is a major achievement, in that sense.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">If you get to see it, you may not recognize
me easily. I play Warick the Wise, but I am heavily disguised. I have a bushy brown
and grey beard, long grey hair, period costume, a bow and arrow, and look
utterly unlike my modern self. Even my own wife didn’t recognize me, after I
had changed into my Viking get-up one day, on set. So, if you want to be sure
who I am playing...just follow the name of my character: Warick the Wise.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">For those of you living outside of the USA, distribution has been arranged in around 85 countries. Most of those appear to open on or around the 16th December, 2013. The openings so far confirmed are: Thailand, October 10th; Japan, December 15th; and Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden December 16th. I will notify you of further release dates, once I become aware of them. Thank you.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">As for the Malaysian release on September 12th...Vikingdom was no.2 at the box office, in its first weekend of release, which is a pretty good showing. It finished up its run in the top 20% or so of box office, for local films, which is respectable.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">Written by Valentine Cawley</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">(If you would like to support my continued writing of this blog and my ongoing campaign to raise awareness about giftedness and all issues pertaining to it, please donate, by clicking on the gold button to the left of the page.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To read about my fundraising campaign, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-in-support-of-my.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-in-support-of-my.html</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;"> and here: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-first-donation.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-first-donation.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">If you would like to read any of our scientific research papers, there are links to some of them, here: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/02/research-papers-by-valentine-cawley-and.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/02/research-papers-by-valentine-cawley-and.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">If you would like to see an online summary of my academic achievements to date, please go here: </span><a href="http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To learn more of Ainan Celeste Cawley, 10, or his gifted brothers, Fintan, 7 and Tiarnan, 5, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">I also write of gifted education, child prodigy, child genius, adult genius, savant, megasavant, HELP University College, the Irish, the Malays, Singapore, Malaysia, IQ, intelligence and creativity.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">There is a review of my blog, on the respected The Kindle Report here:</span><a href="http://thekindlereport.blogspot.com/2010/09/boy-who-knew-too-much-child-prodigy.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://thekindlereport.blogspot.com/2010/09/boy-who-knew-too-much-child-prodigy.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Please have a read, if you would like a critic's view of this blog. Thanks.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">You can get my blog on your Kindle, for easy reading, wherever you are, by going to: </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/B0042P5LEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284603792&sr=8-1" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/B0042P5LEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284603792&sr=8-1</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Please let all your fellow Kindlers know about my blog availability - and if you know my blog well enough, please be so kind as to write a thoughtful review of what you like about it. 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story of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy,
aged seven years and two months, and his gifted brothers.
It is written by his father Valentine Cawley and updated
daily. Thanks for reading.</div>Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-88729049773427860152013-10-01T13:35:00.001+08:002013-10-01T13:35:27.705+08:00The font nerd.<div class="MsoNormal">
Ainan has always looked at the world in his
own way. One of these ways, is a little uncanny.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">When Ainan is out and about, he has the
habit of pointing at the written script around him – for instance, the sign on
a health centre: “That is Trajan”, he says, naming the font used. Or in a
restaurant, he will pick up a menu and observe: “That is Palatino Linotype”. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Everywhere he looks, he sees not just words, but fonts. In a day, he will name
many different fonts, as he notes them in the world around him.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">He did this, recently, in the company of a
noted artist, who was a guest lecturer at an event we attended. He was very
surprised when Ainan noted that the font used on a book he had published, was Gill
Sans. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“How do you know that?”, asked the
dumbfounded artist.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“Oh, he is a prodigy.” My wife answered, intervening,
with a shrug, as if that was explanation enough. Ainan himself was silent on
the matter – as usual, never commenting on himself, in company.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">What I find most interesting about this is
what it says about Ainan’s visual perception and visual memory. He is able to
identify a huge number of fonts – indeed, any font he has ever seen, and learnt
the name of – at a single glance. This suggests that he retains an accurate image
of each letter used in the fonts and is able to discriminate the often subtle differences
between fonts, with a very rapid glance. He has had no training in typography,
or lessons of any kind – but has simply picked up these discriminations on his
own.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">This phenomenon is just one of many with Ainan,
that show him to be a close observer of the world around him. Of course, this
ability to observe, remember and distinguish is much more useful in other
contexts, than simply labelling the written world in fonts. There are clearly
many practical advantages to such observational skill, which lend themselves
well to many areas of work, and creation. I have a few ideas of how Ainan might
apply this observational skill...but I will leave those for another day.</span></div>
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Written by Valentine Cawley</div>
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Unauthorized duplication is prohibited. Use only with permission. Thank you.)</span><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;"> </span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com tells the true
story of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy,
aged seven years and two months, and his gifted brothers.
It is written by his father Valentine Cawley and updated
daily. Thanks for reading.</div>Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-61593041589431316772013-08-24T12:50:00.000+08:002013-08-24T12:50:31.043+08:00Ainan on the ethics of knowledge.<div class="MsoNormal">
On July 19<sup>th</sup> 2013, Ainan posed
one of his often mischievous questions.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“Daddy, why is it ethical to destroy the
unknown?”, he posed, with a little smile peeking from the corners of his lips.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I knew, at once, what he was saying. To
come to know something, is to destroy the mystery that existed before that
knowledge was acquired. Ainan was playing with our ideas of ethics, and
extending them in ways they were never intended to be.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Yet, there was also something else in what
he was saying, I think. Man has a long history of not dealing very well with
that which is Unknown in other societies. When “modern” man has come upon less
developed societies, those “unknown” societies, usually end up being
extinguished, not by knowledge but by the sword, or gun.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">There is something of the philosopher, at
times, in the questions asked by Ainan. He likes to play with meanings,
expectations and paradox. In so doing, he points out interpretations which
others have usually not noticed were implicit in the words themselves. Thus, it
is, he examines words at a deeper level than their conventional meaning. This
tack has promise, if applied in more serious circumstances, for noting matters
which have been long overlooked, not just in philosophical thinking but in
other areas too. Besides, it can often be simply funny – which is more than
enough justification in my book.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I think Ainan is likely to destroy a lot
which is unknown, in his life, by coming to know it. That, of course, is the
aim of every scientific thinker. I look forward to that “destructive”
enlightenment.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i>Posted by Valentine Cawley</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">(If you would like to support my continued writing of this blog and my ongoing campaign to raise awareness about giftedness and all issues pertaining to it, please donate, by clicking on the gold button to the left of the page.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To read about my fundraising campaign, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-in-support-of-my.html" style="background-color: #112233; 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font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">If you would like to read any of our scientific research papers, there are links to some of them, here: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/02/research-papers-by-valentine-cawley-and.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/02/research-papers-by-valentine-cawley-and.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">If you would like to see an online summary of my academic achievements to date, please go here: </span><a href="http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To learn more of Ainan Celeste Cawley, 10, or his gifted brothers, Fintan, 7 and Tiarnan, 5, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">I also write of gifted education, child prodigy, child genius, adult genius, savant, megasavant, HELP University College, the Irish, the Malays, Singapore, Malaysia, IQ, intelligence and creativity.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">There is a review of my blog, on the respected The Kindle Report here:</span><a href="http://thekindlereport.blogspot.com/2010/09/boy-who-knew-too-much-child-prodigy.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://thekindlereport.blogspot.com/2010/09/boy-who-knew-too-much-child-prodigy.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; 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Thanks.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">You can get my blog on your Kindle, for easy reading, wherever you are, by going to: </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/B0042P5LEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284603792&sr=8-1" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/B0042P5LEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284603792&sr=8-1</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Please let all your fellow Kindlers know about my blog availability - and if you know my blog well enough, please be so kind as to write a thoughtful review of what you like about it. Thanks.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">My Internet Movie Database listing is at:</span><a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm3438598/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://imdb.com/name/nm3438598/</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Ainan's IMDB listing is at </span><a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm3305973/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://imdb.com/name/nm3305973/</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Syahidah's IMDB listing is at </span><a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm3463926/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://imdb.com/name/nm3463926/</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Our editing, proofreading and copywriting company, Genghis Can, is at</span><a href="http://www.genghiscan.com/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.genghiscan.com/</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">This blog is copyright Valentine Cawley. Unauthorized duplication is prohibited. Use only with permission. Thank you.)</span><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com tells the true
story of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy,
aged seven years and two months, and his gifted brothers.
It is written by his father Valentine Cawley and updated
daily. Thanks for reading.</div>Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-55903731949230718542013-07-16T15:17:00.001+08:002013-07-16T15:17:22.066+08:00Making history, in the eyes of a child prodigy.<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Sometimes, what seems a little cynical, can
also seem funny.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Yesterday, Ainan remarked: “It is easy to
write history...the difficulty comes in not writing fiction.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I thought it summed up, quite pithily, the
situation in not a few countries, where history and fiction were, to some
degree, intertwined, depending on the political motivations of the day. It
also, of course, embodies a certain cynicism of Ainan, towards the whole
process of recording the past, the influences that impinge upon it, and the
quality of the result.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Then again, I believe he was trying to make
a valid point that expressing the full truth of something is an eminently
difficult task and that, even if well-meaning, falsehood could creep in,
unbeknownst to even the most careful chronicler. In Ainan’s eyes, it may be
rare indeed, for the absolute truth to be written, but more common, instead,
for attractive fictions to be penned – ones that fit the needs of the time.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I wonder what the future will tell, if
anything, of Ainan: will it be the truth, or a fiction written by people who
don’t know him, understand him, or perhaps even judge him, truly, as he is,
rather than as they suppose him to be. Funny as Ainan’s remark is, he, too,
might one day, become a victim of this tendency that he notes. However, if it
happens in his lifetime, I am sure he will make an effort to correct those who
so chronicle – as will I, in the time I have.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i>Posted by Valentine Cawley</i></span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com tells the true
story of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy,
aged seven years and two months, and his gifted brothers.
It is written by his father Valentine Cawley and updated
daily. Thanks for reading.</div>Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-3690274375258898782013-06-29T19:48:00.000+08:002013-06-29T19:48:51.392+08:00Sympathy for one’s fellow animals.<div class="MsoNormal">
Sometimes, it is the quality of a
personality that impresses – particularly in the emotions in they feel for
others and what drives those emotions.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Yesterday, Tiarnan was watching a programme
on National Geographic Channel, about deadly snakes. One particular snake was
shown swallowing a rat whole. Tiarnan watched this with rapt attention and
leant forward a little.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“So sad.” He said, with a voice rich in
feeling. “So sad.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I said nothing but simply hugged him to me,
with my right arm.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Again, the snake was shown eating a rat. “So
sad.” He remarked again.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">His mother Syahidah was surprised at this
reaction. “That is a rat, Tiarnan.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“No. It is not. They are nice.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We both were touched by his sympathy
towards this furry victim.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">He paused for a moment and then said: “It
is not a rat. It is a <i>mouse</i>.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We didn’t argue the point. What was
important was that he actually cared about his fellow creature and what
happened to them. He felt genuine sadness to see the “mouse”, eaten whole.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">This reaction of Tiarnan impressed me
because too often, people nowadays seem to care little for their fellow man –
or their fellow creatures. Yet, Tiarnan is able to feel genuine sympathy for
his fellow creature – however small that creature may be, in the scheme of
things.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">What a sweetie Tiarnan is.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i>Posted by Valentine Cawley</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">(If you would like to support my continued writing of this blog and my ongoing campaign to raise awareness about giftedness and all issues pertaining to it, please donate, by clicking on the gold button to the left of the page.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To read about my fundraising campaign, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-in-support-of-my.html" style="background-color: #112233; 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font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">If you would like to read any of our scientific research papers, there are links to some of them, here: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/02/research-papers-by-valentine-cawley-and.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/02/research-papers-by-valentine-cawley-and.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">If you would like to see an online summary of my academic achievements to date, please go here: </span><a href="http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To learn more of Ainan Celeste Cawley, 10, or his gifted brothers, Fintan, 7 and Tiarnan, 5, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">I also write of gifted education, child prodigy, child genius, adult genius, savant, megasavant, HELP University College, the Irish, the Malays, Singapore, Malaysia, IQ, intelligence and creativity.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">There is a review of my blog, on the respected The Kindle Report here:</span><a href="http://thekindlereport.blogspot.com/2010/09/boy-who-knew-too-much-child-prodigy.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://thekindlereport.blogspot.com/2010/09/boy-who-knew-too-much-child-prodigy.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Please have a read, if you would like a critic's view of this blog. Thanks.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">You can get my blog on your Kindle, for easy reading, wherever you are, by going to: </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/B0042P5LEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284603792&sr=8-1" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/B0042P5LEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284603792&sr=8-1</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Please let all your fellow Kindlers know about my blog availability - and if you know my blog well enough, please be so kind as to write a thoughtful review of what you like about it. Thanks.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">My Internet Movie Database listing is at:</span><a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm3438598/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://imdb.com/name/nm3438598/</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Ainan's IMDB listing is at </span><a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm3305973/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://imdb.com/name/nm3305973/</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Syahidah's IMDB listing is at </span><a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm3463926/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://imdb.com/name/nm3463926/</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Our editing, proofreading and copywriting company, Genghis Can, is at</span><a href="http://www.genghiscan.com/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.genghiscan.com/</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">This blog is copyright Valentine Cawley. Unauthorized duplication is prohibited. Use only with permission. Thank you.)</span><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com tells the true
story of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy,
aged seven years and two months, and his gifted brothers.
It is written by his father Valentine Cawley and updated
daily. Thanks for reading.</div>Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-68131492006194330422013-06-29T19:38:00.001+08:002013-06-29T19:38:35.747+08:00Mysteriously disappearing posts on blogger.I am sorry to note that all posts since May 21st 2013 have disappeared from my blog, without trace. I don't know why this has happened, though perhaps it was due to a failed hard drive at Google (the owner of Blogger). Whatever the case, those posts are gone.<br />
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I wonder if you can help: if you have a copy of any of those posts on your computer, could you email it to me, or post it below this post? Thanks.<br />
<br />
I will resume posting today. Hopefully, those posts will not also be lost.<br />
<br />
Thank you.<br />
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<i>Posted by Valentine Cawley</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">(If you would like to support my continued writing of this blog and my ongoing campaign to raise awareness about giftedness and all issues pertaining to it, please donate, by clicking on the gold button to the left of the page.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To read about my fundraising campaign, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-in-support-of-my.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-in-support-of-my.html</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;"> and here: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-first-donation.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-first-donation.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">If you would like to read any of our scientific research papers, there are links to some of them, here: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/02/research-papers-by-valentine-cawley-and.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/02/research-papers-by-valentine-cawley-and.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">If you would like to see an online summary of my academic achievements to date, please go here: </span><a href="http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To learn more of Ainan Celeste Cawley, 10, or his gifted brothers, Fintan, 7 and Tiarnan, 5, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">I also write of gifted education, child prodigy, child genius, adult genius, savant, megasavant, HELP University College, the Irish, the Malays, Singapore, Malaysia, IQ, intelligence and creativity.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">There is a review of my blog, on the respected The Kindle Report here:</span><a href="http://thekindlereport.blogspot.com/2010/09/boy-who-knew-too-much-child-prodigy.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://thekindlereport.blogspot.com/2010/09/boy-who-knew-too-much-child-prodigy.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Please have a read, if you would like a critic's view of this blog. Thanks.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">You can get my blog on your Kindle, for easy reading, wherever you are, by going to: </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/B0042P5LEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284603792&sr=8-1" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/B0042P5LEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284603792&sr=8-1</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Please let all your fellow Kindlers know about my blog availability - and if you know my blog well enough, please be so kind as to write a thoughtful review of what you like about it. Thanks.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">My Internet Movie Database listing is at:</span><a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm3438598/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://imdb.com/name/nm3438598/</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Ainan's IMDB listing is at </span><a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm3305973/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://imdb.com/name/nm3305973/</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Syahidah's IMDB listing is at </span><a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm3463926/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://imdb.com/name/nm3463926/</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Our editing, proofreading and copywriting company, Genghis Can, is at</span><a href="http://www.genghiscan.com/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.genghiscan.com/</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">This blog is copyright Valentine Cawley. Unauthorized duplication is prohibited. Use only with permission. Thank you.)</span><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;"> </span><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com tells the true
story of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy,
aged seven years and two months, and his gifted brothers.
It is written by his father Valentine Cawley and updated
daily. Thanks for reading.</div>Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-57764915322565900512013-05-21T18:48:00.000+08:002013-05-21T18:48:16.842+08:00The most portable piano in the world.<br />
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Ainan, my 13 year old son, owns the most
portable piano in the world. It is in his head. I shall explain.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Ainan has the habit of playing an imaginary
piano with his fingers, whilst he sits at the dinner table, or even stands up
in mid conversation. His fingers tap out “tunes” in the air, not aimlessly, but
with perfect, most careful choice of movement and depression of finger. He has
been doing this for some time, now.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Today, I asked him: “Ainan: do you hear the
music when you do that?”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“Yes.” He said and carried on playing on
his invisible piano.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">He had confirmed what I had come to intuit:
Ainan actually hears the music he plays on his imaginary piano. For him, the
music is as real as if he had played it on an actual piano. So, it is, in this
way, that Ainan composes music, even when a piano is not near: he will simply
tap out the music to himself, on his inner piano. For him, that is enough, to
allow him to appreciate it. Most often, later, he will play it on a real piano
and, of course, record it – but the first creation is often of him simply
tapping the music out on the table or in the air.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">For Ainan, musical composition has become
very much an instinct and a reflex. Ainan is often seen to be tapping out music
on his imaginary piano, whilst holding a conversation. He particularly likes to
do this in the kitchen. Either his brothers, or his parents, will be talking to
him – and he will be responding – but throughout the conversation, he will
quite clearly be seen to be composing music, on his invisible piano. He is so
used to composing, now, that not even the distraction of a conversation can
stop him from doing so...it just carries on in the background, bubbling up from
within him.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It is quietly pleasing to see how much this
creative activity has become a part of Ainan since the beginning of his 12<sup>th</sup>
year, when he resumed composition, after a six year break (he had started to do
so as a six year old, before being put off music for a long time). I do hope
that he continues with this momentum and grows musically by the day, week,
month, year. Already, of course, he is a very accomplished composer, producing
new works all the time. I look forward to all the music, yet to be heard in
this house, to come. I hope he plays more of it on the piano in the corner of
the house, rather than on the one in the corner of his mind – for only he can
hear that one!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Happy composing Ainan – piano or not.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i>Posted by Valentine Cawley</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">(If you would like to support my continued writing of this blog and my ongoing campaign to raise awareness about giftedness and all issues pertaining to it, please donate, by clicking on the gold button to the left of the page.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To read about my fundraising campaign, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-in-support-of-my.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-in-support-of-my.html</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;"> and here: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-first-donation.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-first-donation.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">If you would like to read any of our scientific research papers, there are links to some of them, here: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/02/research-papers-by-valentine-cawley-and.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/02/research-papers-by-valentine-cawley-and.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">If you would like to see an online summary of my academic achievements to date, please go here: </span><a href="http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To learn more of Ainan Celeste Cawley, 10, or his gifted brothers, Fintan, 7 and Tiarnan, 5, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">I also write of gifted education, child prodigy, child genius, adult genius, savant, megasavant, HELP University College, the Irish, the Malays, Singapore, Malaysia, IQ, intelligence and creativity.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">There is a review of my blog, on the respected The Kindle Report here:</span><a href="http://thekindlereport.blogspot.com/2010/09/boy-who-knew-too-much-child-prodigy.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://thekindlereport.blogspot.com/2010/09/boy-who-knew-too-much-child-prodigy.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; 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Thanks.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">You can get my blog on your Kindle, for easy reading, wherever you are, by going to: </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/B0042P5LEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284603792&sr=8-1" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/B0042P5LEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284603792&sr=8-1</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Please let all your fellow Kindlers know about my blog availability - and if you know my blog well enough, please be so kind as to write a thoughtful review of what you like about it. Thanks.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">My Internet Movie Database listing is at:</span><a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm3438598/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://imdb.com/name/nm3438598/</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Ainan's IMDB listing is at </span><a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm3305973/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://imdb.com/name/nm3305973/</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Syahidah's IMDB listing is at </span><a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm3463926/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://imdb.com/name/nm3463926/</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Our editing, proofreading and copywriting company, Genghis Can, is at</span><a href="http://www.genghiscan.com/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.genghiscan.com/</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">This blog is copyright Valentine Cawley. Unauthorized duplication is prohibited. Use only with permission. Thank you.)</span><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com tells the true
story of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy,
aged seven years and two months, and his gifted brothers.
It is written by his father Valentine Cawley and updated
daily. Thanks for reading.</div>Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-78948764888773481432013-05-01T16:12:00.001+08:002013-05-01T16:16:07.189+08:00On the naming of children and adults.<br />
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A couple of days ago, Tiarnan, 7,
approached me with a concerned look in his troubled eyes.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">“Do people’s names change when they get
older?” He asked, rather intently.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“Why?”, I invited, softly.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“Because Tiarnan sounds like a little boy’s
name.”, said my little boy, with a not so little frown.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">“Tiarnan means <i>Lord</i>.” I said by way of countering him.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">He imbibed the word, Lord, and considered
it whether it was worthy. He didn’t seem convinced. Clearly, the sound of the
name, overwhelmed whatever meaning it might have for him.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I found this exchange rather enlightening
for what it says about Tiarnan’s inner thoughts. It is evident that he is
looking ahead, to a time when he would be an adult. He is considering what it
might be like to have his present name, in that time...and finds it wanting. It
also means he is forming external perspectives on his own name, coming to an
understanding of how other (adults) might perceive it. This is quite mature
reflection for such a little boy.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Then again, I wonder who or what has led
him to be unsatisfied with his name. It is a fine name in my view and has a
worthy meaning. I will have to ask him about it.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">All our children have well chosen names,
with interesting meanings. Each name is, in effect, a little story. I won’t
delve here, into the full meaning of their names, for that is a personal matter
– but I do believe that names should be chosen with the greatest care.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I hope, one day, Tiarnan might like his
name, as much as we do.</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">Posted by Valentine</span> Cawley</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">(If you would like to support my continued writing of this blog and my ongoing campaign to raise awareness about giftedness and all issues pertaining to it, please donate, by clicking on the gold button to the left of the page.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To read about my fundraising campaign, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-in-support-of-my.html" style="background-color: #112233; 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font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">If you would like to read any of our scientific research papers, there are links to some of them, here: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/02/research-papers-by-valentine-cawley-and.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/02/research-papers-by-valentine-cawley-and.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">If you would like to see an online summary of my academic achievements to date, please go here: </span><a href="http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To learn more of Ainan Celeste Cawley, 10, or his gifted brothers, Fintan, 7 and Tiarnan, 5, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">I also write of gifted education, child prodigy, child genius, adult genius, savant, megasavant, HELP University College, the Irish, the Malays, Singapore, Malaysia, IQ, intelligence and creativity.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">There is a review of my blog, on the respected The Kindle Report here:</span><a href="http://thekindlereport.blogspot.com/2010/09/boy-who-knew-too-much-child-prodigy.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://thekindlereport.blogspot.com/2010/09/boy-who-knew-too-much-child-prodigy.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Please have a read, if you would like a critic's view of this blog. Thanks.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">You can get my blog on your Kindle, for easy reading, wherever you are, by going to: </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/B0042P5LEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284603792&sr=8-1" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/B0042P5LEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284603792&sr=8-1</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Please let all your fellow Kindlers know about my blog availability - and if you know my blog well enough, please be so kind as to write a thoughtful review of what you like about it. 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<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com tells the true
story of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy,
aged seven years and two months, and his gifted brothers.
It is written by his father Valentine Cawley and updated
daily. Thanks for reading.</div>Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-54475927206286769872013-04-18T20:40:00.000+08:002013-04-18T20:40:21.144+08:00On having a public voice.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">Some of the world’s most interesting people
have the least opportunity to say what they think.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I thought I should let that thought stand alone, for awhile, to settle in. By this thought, I mean that, often in the modern world, the people we empower with a public voice, are not the most interesting, or the most intelligent of people...yet they are the ones we end up listening to, in all their vapidity. The whole situation strikes me as particularly dim, for what it does to the level of public discourse. In particular, I think of all the missed opportunities we all, as a society, have to learn from those who would be most interesting to listen to.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In our world, it is often the celebrity that is heard above all voices. Yet, what makes a celebrity? Is it intelligence? Often not. Is it genius? Almost certainly not. Is it taste? Questionable. Is it insight? Hardly. Why then do we listen to celebrities? Because they are the ones who get to speak their "thoughts" to us.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I have quite a lot to say, on many things. I also have a lot to say that I have never had the chance to say - because it hasn't been permitted in public - it hasn't been given the nod, to be published. Yet, my reach is small. I have a blog and I have intermittent newspaper articles in one South East Asian country. My thoughts do not have global reach. Yet, I can't help but feel that not a few of those thoughts are more worthy of such reach, than the words of many celebrities, in this world. They speak, and all the world hears...yet what they say, is hardly ever worth the utterance.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It is strange, how a public voice is accorded. It is not done on merit. It is done almost magically. The person who ends up with the loudest public voice, is not the one whose thoughts are of most worth - but whose PERSONALITY, attracts most interest, or, indeed, who is just damn good looking. (Which is, of course, the only thing some celebrities offer). </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I would like to see a world in which the most interesting people, the ones whose thoughts are measured carefully and crafted well, are also the ones we most tend to hear and listen to. That is not our present world. We live in a world in which the trivial receives most attention and the profound is often ignored. That is not a healthy world. It is a world in which the Mind of Man, is slowly dying, as a corporate entity - the group of us all, thinking.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I invite you to consider who it is, you hear in public. Notice that often the quality of the mind, does not match the quality of the opportunity. Too often mediocre minds, have a great opportunity to speak - and brilliant minds have too little a chance to be heard.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Of course, most people don't even realize how often the best of Man, get few opportunities to be considered, by the public. The masses are too busy hearing out, those they should not bother to hear at all.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Perhaps, in a way, it is the choice of the public. Perhaps the public prefers to listen to people like the average person. Perhaps they don't want to hear, ever, what the best of thinkers, have to say. Perhaps such thoughts are regarded as unacceptable, or perhaps incomprehensible, in some way. Even so, there should not be a relative silence, by those most able to speak. Their thoughts should be part of the public discourse; their views should have the chance to be heard.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We all lose out when it is not the best of us, who are given the chance to speak. We lose nothing, if mediocrities were to be silenced, instead. However, I doubt they ever will be. The mediocre, shall dominate the media, forevermore. In the meantime, the profound shall watch from the sidelines, knowing all, telling none, for want of the opportunity to do so.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">If we want a better world, all we have to do, as a mass, is to listen to the quieter voices, who have much more to say, than we have ever given them the chance to do so. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i>Posted by Valentine Cawley</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">(If you would like to support my continued writing of this blog and my ongoing campaign to raise awareness about giftedness and all issues pertaining to it, please donate, by clicking on the gold button to the left of the page.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To read about my fundraising campaign, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-in-support-of-my.html" style="background-color: #112233; 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color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To learn more of Ainan Celeste Cawley, 10, or his gifted brothers, Fintan, 7 and Tiarnan, 5, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">I also write of gifted education, child prodigy, child genius, adult genius, savant, megasavant, HELP University College, the Irish, the Malays, Singapore, Malaysia, IQ, intelligence and creativity.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">There is a review of my blog, on the respected The Kindle Report here:</span><a href="http://thekindlereport.blogspot.com/2010/09/boy-who-knew-too-much-child-prodigy.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://thekindlereport.blogspot.com/2010/09/boy-who-knew-too-much-child-prodigy.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; 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Thanks.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">You can get my blog on your Kindle, for easy reading, wherever you are, by going to: </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/B0042P5LEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284603792&sr=8-1" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/B0042P5LEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284603792&sr=8-1</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Please let all your fellow Kindlers know about my blog availability - and if you know my blog well enough, please be so kind as to write a thoughtful review of what you like about it. Thanks.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">My Internet Movie Database listing is at:</span><a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm3438598/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://imdb.com/name/nm3438598/</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Ainan's IMDB listing is at </span><a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm3305973/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://imdb.com/name/nm3305973/</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Syahidah's IMDB listing is at </span><a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm3463926/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://imdb.com/name/nm3463926/</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Our editing, proofreading and copywriting company, Genghis Can, is at</span><a href="http://www.genghiscan.com/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.genghiscan.com/</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">This blog is copyright Valentine Cawley. Unauthorized duplication is prohibited. Use only with permission. Thank you.)</span><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com tells the true
story of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy,
aged seven years and two months, and his gifted brothers.
It is written by his father Valentine Cawley and updated
daily. Thanks for reading.</div>Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-42093880424828345912013-04-15T15:22:00.000+08:002013-04-15T17:30:00.287+08:00Are prodigies in competition with others?<br />
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arrived on my blog with a curious search: “Cannot become a theoretical
physicist because of prodigies”. I thought this a most odd search in what it
said about the searcher’s understanding of prodigies.</div>
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regards to prodigies. Many researchers put the number of true prodigies, of all
types lumped together, at one in five million people. That means that the rarer
types of prodigy, such as omnibus
prodigy (the type Ainan has now demonstrated himself to be – a prodigy with a
multitude of talents), are much rarer still. There are, therefore, very few
prodigies. How many in Physics have there been in recorded history? Well,
Wikipedia’s list of child prodigies musters only 8 names. Thus, the entire
competition from child prodigy physicists amounts to just 8 people.</span></div>
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therefore, that prodigies are not, truly, in competition with the masses of
others, who are not prodigious. There are too few prodigies for it to be a
truly competitive situation – prodigies are simply overwhelmed numerically by
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you need not worry about the presence of prodigies in theoretical physics...no
matter how talented they are, they will be numerically too small a number, to
worry about, in any real competitive sense. This applies to all categories of
prodigy...no-one need worry about prodigies out competing them, because there
will always be too few of them to take up all the spots at the top, as it were:
there will always be space for a bright individual who took more time to
develop to their fullest.</span></div>
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become real competition at the top, in all fields: and that is if they were,
perhaps, a thousand times more prevalent. In such a situation, they would tend
to dominate – but that situation is unlikely to happen and, in fact, would be
impossible without major intervention in human evolution and population
genetics. This is not likely to happen in the foreseeable future, though it is conceivable
that it might happen one day – probably beginning in a state that has less
scruples than others, over possible ethical issues, most likely in Asia. I
doubt, however, whether that is going to be something present adults will have
to face, because the relevant technologies will take a significant time to
mature and may, of course, never be implemented in humans at all.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Prodigies are not anyone’s competition.
What they are, is human colour: they add to the spectrum of interesting humans
out there in the world and should be welcomed, not feared, or shunned. What
prodigies bring to the table is so rare that it is not, truly, in competition
with anyone. Each prodigy should be treasured and valued, for the human rarity
they are. Then again, if people fear their competition, people will tend to
hamper the prodigy’s development...they will attempt to stymie them in every
way they can. That, would be a truly sad loss of the prodigy’s talents. A
prodigy should be aided, in every way, to become what they may – for though
they add to life and society, they don’t take away opportunity from others,
because they are simply too few.</span></div>
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don’t worry about competing with them. It is not about competition, it is about
making the best of life, for us all.</span></div>
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color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To learn more of Ainan Celeste Cawley, 10, or his gifted brothers, Fintan, 7 and Tiarnan, 5, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">I also write of gifted education, child prodigy, child genius, adult genius, savant, megasavant, HELP University College, the Irish, the Malays, Singapore, Malaysia, IQ, intelligence and creativity.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">There is a review of my blog, on the respected The Kindle Report here:</span><a href="http://thekindlereport.blogspot.com/2010/09/boy-who-knew-too-much-child-prodigy.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://thekindlereport.blogspot.com/2010/09/boy-who-knew-too-much-child-prodigy.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; 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Thanks.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">You can get my blog on your Kindle, for easy reading, wherever you are, by going to: </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/B0042P5LEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284603792&sr=8-1" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/B0042P5LEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284603792&sr=8-1</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Please let all your fellow Kindlers know about my blog availability - and if you know my blog well enough, please be so kind as to write a thoughtful review of what you like about it. Thanks.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">My Internet Movie Database listing is at:</span><a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm3438598/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://imdb.com/name/nm3438598/</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Ainan's IMDB listing is at </span><a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm3305973/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://imdb.com/name/nm3305973/</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Syahidah's IMDB listing is at </span><a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm3463926/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://imdb.com/name/nm3463926/</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Our editing, proofreading and copywriting company, Genghis Can, is at</span><a href="http://www.genghiscan.com/" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.genghiscan.com/</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">This blog is copyright Valentine Cawley. Unauthorized duplication is prohibited. Use only with permission. Thank you.)</span><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com tells the true
story of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy,
aged seven years and two months, and his gifted brothers.
It is written by his father Valentine Cawley and updated
daily. Thanks for reading.</div>Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-52239864889754943042013-04-06T15:35:00.000+08:002013-04-06T15:35:42.175+08:00The adult world, from the point of view of a child.<br />
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Tiarnan is 7. Though pretty young by most
standards, he has clear views on many things. April 2<sup>nd</sup> was a case
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<span lang="EN-GB">Tiarnan sidled up to me as I sat at my
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<span lang="EN-GB">“Why do some countries like to fight?”, he
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<span lang="EN-GB">“Because they think they can get something
by fighting.”, I answered, quite simply, while I appraised his reaction.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Tiarnan laughed, without the hint of a
delay: “They will <i>never</i> get <i>anything</i> by
fighting.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“The Americans fought in the Middle East,
because they wanted oil.”, I countered, more to expand the conversation, than
to contradict his view.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“Why do they want oil?” Tiarnan, began. “They
have <i>legs</i>. They can just walk to
places.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">There was something in him that was aghast
at the whole idea. He seemed to think the Americans were being very silly,
indeed.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I thought his understanding was wonderfully
apt, so I let the matter stand unanswered.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">What strikes me as funny about this is
that, from the point of view of a child, the adult world can seem very silly.
The things adults do just don’t seem to be rational, when approached with the
clarity a bright child is able to bring to the situation. They have a very
uncluttered view of the world and see, in some ways, the core that adults learn
to overlook. In a way, it is silly that we have built our world to be dependent
on artificial transport systems, when we have a natural one at our disposal. It
is silly that we design our cities such that long distance driving is required
to get everything we need to live, instead of living locally, with all our
needs in easy reach – on foot. Modern adults have, in some ways, designed a
very silly world in which to live – and a young child can see that. I must say,
though, that it is refreshing to hear it said.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Of course, once the world’s oil runs out –
which will probably happen without a viable replacement to hand, then the silliness
of the world we have built will become clear, not only to our children, but to
all. Then, perhaps, we will, indeed, use our legs, to do what they were meant
to do: put the world within our reach. It is going to be a sobering shock for
most people – yet that is the world that is promised to come, on the basis of
one unavoidable fact: our oil reserves are finite and running out fast.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Yet, I can’t help but note that the end of
oil is likely to result in behaviour which would meet with Tiarnan’s
disapproval: resource wars fought over the remaining crumbs of oil. My little
son wouldn’t be impressed.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It is funny to note that if the world were
designed by children, it would be both simpler and somehow, potentially, nicer –
at least if designed by Tiarnan. His world is a world without war, lived
locally at a gentle pace. It is not such a bad place to consider.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Thank you Tiarnan, for showing me your
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">(If you would like to support my continued writing of this blog and my ongoing campaign to raise awareness about giftedness and all issues pertaining to it, please donate, by clicking on the gold button to the left of the page.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To read about my fundraising campaign, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-in-support-of-my.html" style="background-color: #112233; 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font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">If you would like to read any of our scientific research papers, there are links to some of them, here: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/02/research-papers-by-valentine-cawley-and.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/02/research-papers-by-valentine-cawley-and.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">If you would like to see an online summary of my academic achievements to date, please go here: </span><a href="http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To learn more of Ainan Celeste Cawley, 10, or his gifted brothers, Fintan, 7 and Tiarnan, 5, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; 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<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com tells the true
story of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy,
aged seven years and two months, and his gifted brothers.
It is written by his father Valentine Cawley and updated
daily. Thanks for reading.</div>Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-26565973688980259342013-04-01T16:14:00.000+08:002013-04-01T16:14:42.349+08:00A child composer’s view on music.<br />
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Ainan has a curious view on music. For him,
music is not what it is to most people.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">A few months ago, he remarked: <i>“Music is a hard science – since every note
is affected by the history of all the other notes.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I found this an interesting remark, in
several ways. Firstly, Ainan clearly understands Music to be a Science and not
an Art. He comes at it from a scientific perspective and tries to construct his
music, as a composer, in a scientific fashion: he brings reason to it, not just
taste (though I observe there is plenty of that, too). It is possible that this
particular approach to music, will lead to Ainan’s music being different from
that produced by those who believe music to be an Art (everyone else). I am
curious as to where this unusual outlook on music will lead him. Then again,
the second half of his remark, makes it clear that Ainan sees music as a whole:
each piece of music is a large scale structure, in which all the component
parts – the notes – are influenced by all their fellows and guided thereby. To
me, this means that Ainan has a “big picture” outlook on the composition of
music, allied to an attention to the smallest detail – how each note is
affected by all the other notes. He is simultaneously observing the whole and
the parts. This is suggestive, to my mind of a unified form of thinking – one that
deploys left and right brain styles, simultaneously. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">If anything were to distinguish Ainan from
other composers, it would be in the degree of intelligence and insight he
brings to bear on his compositions. He thinks very deeply about his music and
considers every aspect carefully. Yet, at the same time, he manages to be very
spontaneous in that the music emerges from him quite rapidly. His
thoughtfulness is not encumbering. It does not stem the flow of music, as it
might for some people. It helps him fashion it, as it comes, shape and form it.
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<span lang="EN-GB">Whether Ainan realizes it or not, he is
composing with a musical philosophy in mind – which he has nicely encapsulated
in that remark. I record this remark, therefore, as an early statement of his
outlook on music, so that it might be available in recorded form, for later
attention, when the outcome of his musical explorations is clearer, in years to
come.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In the meantime, I shall continue to enjoy
his ever flowing music, newly conceived in our home, on a daily basis.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i>Posted by Valentine Cawley</i></span></div>
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Thanks.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">You can get my blog on your Kindle, for easy reading, wherever you are, by going to: </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/B0042P5LEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284603792&sr=8-1" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/B0042P5LEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284603792&sr=8-1</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Please let all your fellow Kindlers know about my blog availability - and if you know my blog well enough, please be so kind as to write a thoughtful review of what you like about it. 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Unauthorized duplication is prohibited. Use only with permission. Thank you.)</span><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com tells the true
story of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy,
aged seven years and two months, and his gifted brothers.
It is written by his father Valentine Cawley and updated
daily. Thanks for reading.</div>Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-48138063452679876612013-03-16T17:47:00.000+08:002013-03-16T17:53:01.576+08:00Ainan Celeste Cawley, composer, for “Reflection” a film, by Ignas Versinskas.<br />
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Ainan Celeste Cawley, my eldest son,
composed the music for the film, “Reflection” , at age 12. The short film (15
minutes), written and directed by Ignas Versinskas, is premiering at the
Vilnius International Film Festival, which is from March 14<sup>th</sup> to March
28<sup>th</sup>, in Lithuania.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Now, I don’t know if you know much about
film scoring...but Google taught me something very interesting. In the field of
film music scoring, a youthful composer is thought to be one in their twenties.
I couldn’t find any examples of ones anywhere near as young as Ainan was when
he composed the music used in Reflection. It seems, therefore, that Ainan is
the youngest film score composer, in world history.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It came as a big surprise that Ainan, who
has over the years been primarily interested in science, computer programming,
mathematics and digital animated film-making, should suddenly emerge as a
composer. It was very sudden. We had a piano in our house for six long years –
and Ainan never touched it. He seemed utterly uninterested in it. Then, one day,
I heard music coming from the piano room, when Ainan was in the early months of
his 12<sup>th</sup> year. It was very familiar music...Beethoven, in fact. I
approached the room, very curious as to what I would find. There Ainan sat, at
the piano, playing Beethoven, without any sense, at all, that this might be
considered unusual – considering that he was doing so, without any piano
lessons, or aid, whatsoever. I listened and didn’t interrupt until he had
finished. It was only then that I told him how beautiful it sounded. He quietly
absorbed my words without comment. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“How did you learn to play that?” I further
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<span lang="EN-GB">“Oh, I heard it somewhere, before.” He
said, casually.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It turned out that he remembered the music
from months ago and had worked it out, by ear on the piano.</span><br />
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pieces. I learnt this by asking him who had composed the piece he had just
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<span lang="EN-GB">“Me.”, he answered, simply and started to
play another – of his own, it turned out.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Music emerged from him, spontaneously and
with considerable skill, considering how little time he had been playing and
composing.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">My friend, Ignas Versinskas, a director,
writer and actor, whom I had worked with on Vikingdom, (both of us were actors
on it) was making a film. He invited me to play the lead, Trent, in the film
Reflection. Trent is an Interpol agent – a detective whose life consists of
inquiry into the darker acts human beings are capable of. I agreed to do the
role. However, Ignas had a problem – the composer he intended to use had gone
overseas and was difficult to contact. That gave me the idea of a solution. I
invited Ignas round to listen to Ainan play his music.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Ignas was smitten at once. Ainan’s music
was just what was needed for Reflection. He decided then and there to invite
Ainan to compose the music for Reflection.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Ainan composed the music for Reflection
over a few weeks, at a few minutes, to tens of minutes, a day of work. He is
quite spontaneous with his music and it didn’t need all that much time to
compose the pieces. He ended up composing quite a few more works than were
actually used: the ones most suited to the needs of the film, were chosen.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Ainan then played the music into a computer
system, which recorded his performance in complete detail. </span><br />
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Then the music was
output, sometimes as a piano, as it had been input – but sometimes as other
instruments. Thus, the music used in the film was all performed by Ainan as
well as composed, but his performance is disguised by the fact that some of it
had been output to sound like different instruments, to the piano he plays.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">If you take a look at Ainan’s IMDB page,
here: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3305973/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1">http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3305973/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">You will note that Ainan is now described
as a composer and is listed as the composer on Reflection.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">If you click through to the full cast and
crew page for Reflection, here:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2751566/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2751566/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">You will see that it states “Original Music
score by Ainan Celeste Cawley”.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Of all of Ainan’s many achievements in his
life, this one is the one of which I am both most proud and most surprised. I
regard it as my favourite achievement of his, because of its utter
unexpectedness – and because it shows creativity in a domain that I did not
expect him focus on. It also shows genuine creativity and that is something
many prodigies do not display (many of them just show skill, not creativity).
Ainan is showing something more than that, therefore...he is showing the
working elements of true genius, too – that is, originality and creativity.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I have always described Ainan as a scientific
child prodigy – because that was his focus when he was very young. However, his
mind has broadened over the years. He is now operating at a high level in many
domains, scientific, mathematical and artistic. There is a term for such a
prodigy: it is called an omnibus prodigy. The composition of the film score for
Reflection, establishes Ainan as an omnibus prodigy. If you do some research
into it, you will find that this is the rarest kind of prodigy, since almost
all prodigies operate in a single area. Not so, with Ainan...his mind now
encompasses many facets of human endeavour. I am left to wonder what he will
become in the years ahead and what more surprises there might be.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">As for now, I am pleased just to be able to
listen to his music composition, on a daily basis when he comes home from
University. It is, now, one of my greatest pleasures, in life.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Thank you Ainan.</span></div>
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Unauthorized duplication is prohibited. Use only with permission. Thank you.)</span><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com tells the true
story of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy,
aged seven years and two months, and his gifted brothers.
It is written by his father Valentine Cawley and updated
daily. Thanks for reading.</div>Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-69662766343163618422013-03-14T11:44:00.001+08:002013-03-14T11:51:06.649+08:00Does the world care about genius, anymore?<br />
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I ask this question for a very specific
reason. It is the experience of my life, with regards to my child prodigy son,
that is not easy to secure adequate and fair coverage of his creative and
intellectual achievements. This abstemiousness in the coverage of genius, is not particular to Ainan. In fact, I have written many more articles on giftedness and its issues, than have ever been published. So many of my best articles on giftedness are not allowed to be seen and read by the world, because of unfortunate media mindsets. It is very strange to watch the media’s priorities,
in which, too often very, very trivial matters (David Beckham’s new haircut,
anyone?) receive massive global coverage, whereas much more significant,
indeed, historic achievements, such as Ainan making a scientific discovery and
co-authoring a research paper at the age of 8, receive relatively modest
coverage, considering their importance. It is very strange to watch. It seems
that the modern world celebrates ordinariness and sidelines the truly exceptional.
Once, it was not so. There was a time when, to become famous, one had to be
truly an exceptional being. Now, it is the other way around – the very ordinary
(such as reality TV stars), manage to achieve great fame, on the back of
seemingly no achievements whatsoever, whereas the world’s greatest scientists,
for instance, are essentially unheard of, outside of their own discipline. We
have an inversion of the age old relationship between merit and fame.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">It seems that in our time, too often, the
unworthy become known and the worthy remain unknown. At least, it is not
difficult to think of talentless, famous people and even easier to think of very
talented, unknown ones (we all know one or two such people). Public regard now
seems to be accorded on those most like the public – ie. unexceptional – and least
like the giants of old – ie. geniuses. This is a tragedy, not only for the geniuses concerned, but for
Mankind and human society as a whole. I shall explain why.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">A genius has the power to transform the
human world – be it culturally, technologically, scientifically or societally.
Yet, to effect such transformation, the genius needs to influence the world.
The ability to influence that world and effect the positive changes they could
make, depends directly on how well known they are. The better known they are,
the more the world will listen to their ideas. Thus, it can be readily seen
that, to reach their maximum potential for positive change in the world, a
genius needs to be famous, in a very real sense. An unknown genius is an
uninfluential genius. An unknown genius will not be able to change the world,
to any significant degree. It is only when their work becomes well known, that
it can have a chance of affecting the world. Thus, it can be seen that the media,
by starving the general public of information on geniuses, by preferentially
covering the Top 100 Celebrity Haircuts/nose clippings/shopping sprees, are
directly impeding the progress of humanity.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Humanity cannot progress unless the work of
its creators becomes widely known. That creative work cannot become widely
known, unless the creators themselves are also widely known. Thus, it can be
seen that creative work cannot change the world, in any real way, unless its
creators are themselves well known. Fame can be used for trivial or profound purposes.
In the hands of a genius, it can be used to truly transform the world, in a
positive way.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It is time to silence the tumult of
unremarkable “celebrities” and put in their place, the truly remarkable among
us. By empowering such individuals of genius, with the influence that comes
with fame, the world will progress with greater rapidity, to the benefit of
all. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">So, it is up to the media, to make a point
of giving people of genius – and their creative works – an appropriate level of
coverage, in proportion to the significance, rarity and potential of the
achievements. A book, an artwork, a musical composition, a scientific paper, an
architectural design, a poem, a film and any other creative achievement are all
INFINITELY more worthy of global coverage, than a celebrity’s latest “hook up”.
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<span lang="EN-GB">Let us usher in a world of significance –
and let the trivial be silenced. Banish celebrity haircuts, relationships, and
trashy behaviour from the world’s newspapers and put in their place
achievements and achievers of significance.
Were this done, we would soon all be living in a much better world than
this one.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i>Posted by Valentine Cawley</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">(If you would like to support my continued writing of this blog and my ongoing campaign to raise awareness about giftedness and all issues pertaining to it, please donate, by clicking on the gold button to the left of the page.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To read about my fundraising campaign, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-in-support-of-my.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-in-support-of-my.html</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;"> and here: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-first-donation.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-first-donation.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">If you would like to read any of our scientific research papers, there are links to some of them, here: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/02/research-papers-by-valentine-cawley-and.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/02/research-papers-by-valentine-cawley-and.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">If you would like to see an online summary of my academic achievements to date, please go here: </span><a href="http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To learn more of Ainan Celeste Cawley, 10, or his gifted brothers, Fintan, 7 and Tiarnan, 5, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; 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Thanks.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">You can get my blog on your Kindle, for easy reading, wherever you are, by going to: </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/B0042P5LEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284603792&sr=8-1" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/B0042P5LEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284603792&sr=8-1</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">Please let all your fellow Kindlers know about my blog availability - and if you know my blog well enough, please be so kind as to write a thoughtful review of what you like about it. 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Unauthorized duplication is prohibited. Use only with permission. Thank you.)</span><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com tells the true
story of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy,
aged seven years and two months, and his gifted brothers.
It is written by his father Valentine Cawley and updated
daily. Thanks for reading.</div>Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-58279406315584533782013-03-12T17:45:00.000+08:002013-03-12T17:45:15.295+08:00Vikingdom Teaser Trailer ReleasedAs regular readers will know, I played a role in Vikingdom, the KRU studios epic action adventure film. Last night, at 9 pm, KRU released a one minute, seven second teaser trailer for Vikingdom. I am visible in it, to the eagle eyed (try the 22 second, in the right hand upper corner).<br />
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Here it is:<br />
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkBbQm-W5SI<br />
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Vikingdom will be released, I expect, in the next few months. My role, Warick, is a significant one in that I am one of the questors, in the main quest, which occupies most of the film. I am, therefore, onscreen, for much of the time.<br />
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The funny thing is, I never would have expected to have been in an epic action adventure film. It was a good experience. The hero of the film, Eirick, was played by Dominic Purcell, of Prison Break fame.<br />
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Please let me know what you think of the trailer below. I hope you go on to see the film when it comes out. It certainly looks like it will be enjoyable to watch...and it will give you a chance to see some of my acting, in action, as it were.<br />
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Happy watching.<br />
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<i>Posted by Valentine Cawley</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">(If you would like to support my continued writing of this blog and my ongoing campaign to raise awareness about giftedness and all issues pertaining to it, please donate, by clicking on the gold button to the left of the page.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To read about my fundraising campaign, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-in-support-of-my.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; 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color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To learn more of Ainan Celeste Cawley, 10, or his gifted brothers, Fintan, 7 and Tiarnan, 5, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; 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Unauthorized duplication is prohibited. Use only with permission. Thank you.)</span><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;"> </span><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com tells the true
story of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy,
aged seven years and two months, and his gifted brothers.
It is written by his father Valentine Cawley and updated
daily. Thanks for reading.</div>Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-33621177448832422972013-03-02T22:58:00.000+08:002013-03-03T18:13:48.469+08:00Poach the poachers<br />
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The Rhino is in danger of extinction, owing
to illegal poaching, for its horn, which is believed to have medicinal value,
in Chinese medicine. Indeed, so strong is this belief that Rhino horn is now
selling at 65,000 USD per kilogram – and all for nothing more than a pile of
keratin (found in fingernails everywhere).</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Leaving aside the undoubted fact that, in
truth there is NO medicinal value to Rhino horn, in any way at all...just a
tradition of stupidity surrounding it...I am left startled that scientists
assaying the problem of what to do about the illegal Rhino trade have suggested
legalizing it. This way, they argue, cheaper, legal Rhino horn can be provided
from farms, without killing the animals, and this would somehow, magically, end
the illegal trade. Of course, it is likely to just make illegal Rhino
harvesting (along with the killing of the Rhinos) easier to pursue, for now it
would have no consequences.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Let us examine what a Rhino poacher does
when he kills a Rhino. There are just 5,000 Black Rhinos and 20,000 White
Rhinos left in the world. So, when a poacher kills a White Rhino he (as the
poacher is probably male), he will have killed one twenty thousandth of a species.
So, too, if he kills a Black Rhino, he will have killed one five thousandth of
a species. Consider what that means for a moment. What would we do to a person
who killed one twenty thousandth of the human species? That would be 350,000
people. Or how about someone who killed one five thousandth of the human
species...that would be 1,400,000 people. What would we do with such a person?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We would send in special forces to kill
them. That is what we would do. So, I wish to suggest that we do the same for
anyone who kills such a proportion of an endangered species. We should, quite
simply poach the poachers.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I wonder why we don’t do this,
automatically. My only answer is that the developed powers just don’t care
enough about endangered species to hunt down and kill their killers. We should,
however, be doing just that. If someone cares so little about life on this
planet, that they are prepared to exterminate a species, they should,
themselves, be subject to extermination. That, to me, seems a fair and
reasonable – and JUST stand on the issue. A poacher is forever diminishing
Nature, by being one of those who drive species to extinction. They should not
be tolerated, but should be eliminated.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">To my mind it is a simple equation. The life
of a cold hearted, even evil, poacher is not worth one twenty thousandth of the
lives of another species of higher animal. They should be killed – and killed
in such a public way, that it dissuades other would be poachers from poaching.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I would be prepared to believe that a
developed nation cares about the future of planet Earth, if it sends its
special forces out after poachers, in less developed nations who don’t have the
means to deal with it. Let us hear, instead, not the death statistics of yet
another endangered species in its death throes – but a daily tally of the
number of poachers killed, in the name of saving those species. Were this to be
covered in the news, on a regular basis, word would eventually filter through
to those inclined to poach that “Poaching is a BAD idea.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">This is the only effective way left to save
these species in the wild. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Poach the poachers, to save the world.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i>Posted by Valentine Cawley</i></span></div>
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Unauthorized duplication is prohibited. Use only with permission. Thank you.)</span><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com tells the true
story of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy,
aged seven years and two months, and his gifted brothers.
It is written by his father Valentine Cawley and updated
daily. Thanks for reading.</div>Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-91885156773564652202013-02-28T18:57:00.000+08:002013-02-28T18:57:37.189+08:00Mathematical serendipity and the Apollonian Gasket.<br />
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Maths is vast. Sometimes, looking at how
much has been done, I wonder at the mathematical Universe that has been created
by the collective endeavour of all Man’s generations of mathematical thinkers.
Now, this vastness has consequences which Ainan discovered recently.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Some time ago, Ainan drew what seemed to
him a very interesting shape of tangential circles within a circle, echoing
fractally on. He drew it because the form of it appealed to him, aesthetically.
He liked its mathematical beauty.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Some time later, Ainan stumbled on
something on Wikipedia: the Apollonian Gasket. It was the figure Ainan had
drawn...the fractal shape of tangential circles. Ainan had rediscovered
something invented, initially, by Apollonius of Perga, the Greek Mathematician.
How odd...and how revealing of the vastness of mathematical creation, that a
random creation of a child, playing with mathematical ideas, should, itself,
have already been the random creation of an adult, long ago, in Greece.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Ainan is inventing much mathematics these
days. He invents mathematical problems, schemas, conjectures, propositions and theories, for himself to play
with. No doubt, on occasion, they will be something that has been done before –
like the Apollonian Gasket – yet, at other times, I am sure, they are something
that has never been done before. The problem with that is that I am not a
mathematician and so I am not in a position to advise Ainan as to the merit,
utility or value of anything he does. So, he just creates in mathematical
isolation, playing with maths, as other children might play with the sand, at
the beach: happily, joyfully, for the very purpose of immersing oneself in the
environment – in his case, an abstract one – in the other’s, the beach.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Ainan is presently alone in his
mathematical pursuits. There is no-one to share them with – though I listen to
him and watch, with a sprinkling of wonder, at what he does. Yet, I cannot be
the perfect audience to his mathematical work, because my primary domains are
elsewhere, other than this.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Ainan spins on, growing, becoming,
morphing, each passing year, into a being, ever more rarified, ever more
unexpected. My role is to do what I can to foster that growth – even if it be
in areas that are not my primary strengths. I enjoy it, but I wish, for his
sake that I could be all the differing intellects he requires to be properly
supported. I can be most of them – and am – but I cannot be all of them. Yet,
what I can be, is appreciative of his intellectual growth, in whichever
direction it meanders, no matter how far it wanders...I can appreciate it...and
I do. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">(If you would like to support my continued writing of this blog and my ongoing campaign to raise awareness about giftedness and all issues pertaining to it, please donate, by clicking on the gold button to the left of the page.</span><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To read about my fundraising campaign, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/01/fundraising-drive-in-support-of-my.html" style="background-color: #112233; 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font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">If you would like to read any of our scientific research papers, there are links to some of them, here: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/02/research-papers-by-valentine-cawley-and.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/02/research-papers-by-valentine-cawley-and.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">If you would like to see an online summary of my academic achievements to date, please go here: </span><a href="http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11136175</a><span style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">To learn more of Ainan Celeste Cawley, 10, or his gifted brothers, Fintan, 7 and Tiarnan, 5, please go to: </span><a href="http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html" style="background-color: #112233; color: #ddaa77; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;">http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html</a><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.66666603088379px;" /><br style="background-color: #112233; color: #aabbcc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #112233; 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daily. Thanks for reading.</div>Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-33719082701718119022013-02-25T16:18:00.001+08:002013-02-25T16:27:41.345+08:00Aaron Swartz and the failure to value genius.The article below was written as an article intended for The Star newspaper, Malaysia. They, however, declined to publish it. So, too, did the New York Times and the Sunday Times, so decline. The latter two newspapers were not even polite enough to reply - though the Star was, at least.<br />
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I rather think that the key idea proposed within this article found disapproval with these news organs...they couldn't bring themselves, it seems, to air my suggested solution to the problem I raise and discuss. To me, that seems closed minded. My solution should, at least, be brought out into the open for discussion. Having been rejected by three newspapers, however, I think it is best if I, at least, publish this article on my blog, so that it might, at least, get a small readership...which is better than no readership at all.</div>
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If any newspaper does wish to run the article...just ask me, and I shall arrange it. Thanks.</div>
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<i><u><span lang="EN-GB">Aaron Swartz and the failure to value genius.<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></h1>
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Valentine Cawley<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It is striking to note that, throughout
history, geniuses are more often valued dead, than alive. In life, a genius can
expect much opposition, not a little hostility and a complete absence of
support. Yet, in death, “Humanity” finds it in itself to heap praise on the
corpse of the now unthreatening genius.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">So, too, it is in the nature of genius to
be apart from the mainstream; to hold different viewpoints, which, though
unique at first, might, in time, become commonplace, if the genius’ ideas are
ever accepted. Yet, during the course of their working lives, it is common for
geniuses to strive against the “system”, to be ever seeking change, and
improvement - revolution even. It is
this tendency which, of course, leads on many occasions to the persecution of
geniuses, their loss of liberty and even loss of life.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">What can a genius do for society? A genius,
properly enabled to do their work, can bring into being a new world, a new way
of doing something old, a new science, a new technology and a new culture. A
genius can give us a world we would never know without them. One genius is more
valuable to a society than millions of ordinary workers – because those
ordinary workers will never bring anything new into being – they only ever work
with what already exists and the boundaries that have already been laid out. A
genius should, therefore, be treasured, however awkward it might be, at times,
to have them around.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The recent case of Aaron Swartz, the
internet pioneer, writer, computer programmer, political organizer and internet
activist brings into focus issues surrounding the attitude of society, to
genius. As many of you will know, he committed suicide on January 11<sup>th</sup>,
2013, seemingly in order to escape from a draconian prosecution by the US
government, for a rather odd “crime”: downloading over 4 million articles,
which were accessible free, to him, from the JSTOR database, from an unlocked
closet at MIT. He had done this because he objected to JSTOR charging
significant fees for the articles, since he believed this restricted access to
them. He had a point, for I argued similarly, in a journal article I published
entitled: “<b><i>An analysis of the ethics of peer review and other traditional academic
publishing practices”</i></b>, in the <i>International Journal of Social Science and
Humanity.</i> (<a href="http://www.ijssh.org/papers/36-H058.pdf">http://www.ijssh.org/papers/36-H058.pdf</a>)
I found that it was unethical to charge for academic articles, since this acted
so as to limit the distribution of knowledge, for the purpose of profiteering.
Thus academic publishers, are making money at the expense of human progress. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">For Swartz’s action in bringing attention
to this issue, he had faced up to 35 years in prison and a 1 million US dollar
fine. For a 26 year old, potentially looking forward to a life in prison, until
his sixties, this must have seemed an overwhelming prospect to Aaron Swartz.
Rather than face such an awful prospect, he appears to have chosen to end his
life, by hanging.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Every death is a loss to the world. Yet,
Aaron’s life was not a typical one. At just 14, he contributed to the creation
of RSS, used to feed updates of blogs to the world. His code is now ubiquitous.
He founded Infogami which was merged with Reddit. He participated in the
creation of the Creative Commons license and he organized the Internet, to
oppose and defeat SOPA (STOP ONLINE PIRACY ACT). Along the way, he also
highlighted and spoke out against President Obama’s “kill list” – which perhaps
did not make him popular in certain quarters in his own nation.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">To many, Aaron Swartz was a genius – and he
was certainly prodigious as a programmer. By his death, the world has lost all
he would ever have done – and there is no guessing what that might have been.
Thus, the future is undoubtedly impoverished by his passing. Had he lived, the
world yet to be, would have been fashioned and shaped, to some degree by this
young man’s thought. Now, none of that will ever be. We have all lost, by his
death – not just his immediate family.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Was it sensible of the American government
to pursue Aaron Swartz so harshly? Was a potential 35 years in prison a
reasonable response to downloading some academic journal articles, which JSTOR
has now made free to view, in any case? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It is clear that this sledgehammer approach
of the US government to the case of Aaron Swartz, has cost America and the
world far more than it stood to gain by punishing him, so aggressively. The
treatment of Aaron Swartz calls to mind the treatment of other geniuses,
throughout history. Alan Turing, for instance, was prosecuted by the British
state, for being a homosexual. His penalty was chemical castration. Two years
after his sentence, he apparently committed suicide by cyanide poisoning. Alan
Turing was a computing genius, who was one of the founders of the modern era of
computing. His life work changed the world. Also, by cracking the German Enigma
code, he may very well have changed history too, ensuring the triumph of the
Allies, and the defeat of the Nazis. The British thanked him by persecuting him
and prompting him to end his own life. The cost to humanity of his loss is
truly incalculable, since there is no telling what contributions he would have
made had he lived out the remainder of his natural life, instead of dying at
41, by suicide.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">Then, in the field of literature, there was
Oscar Wilde, a writer of genius, who was also prosecuted for his sexual
orientation. The two years he spent in prison utterly broke his health, and led
to his death three years later. The world had lost another genius at the age of
just 46. Again, we are left with the certainty of the world’s loss, but not
knowing how great that loss was, for we shall never see what he never lived to
write.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">These three examples make clear that
societies, in general, do not value genius enough, nor consider the
consequences of persecuting them. The rather pedestrian individuals who take it
upon themselves to prosecute them do not take into consideration the
consequences for society, of those prosecutions. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">This leads me to propose a principle by
which society should moderate the punishments it metes out to individuals, for
crimes. </span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB">The principle of least harm to society:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">“No
person should be given a punishment for a crime, that would cause more harm or
loss to society, in consequence, than the crime itself caused.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In a more extreme form, this could arguably
be refined to: <i>“No person should be
punished for a crime in such a way as to cause harm to society, thereby.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Thus, it can be seen, in the cases of
geniuses, it does not make sense for a society to jail a genius for long
periods, thereby losing the fruits of all their potential work in that period,
if the creative work lost, would have been of greater value than the harm their
crime caused society. What this means, in practice, is that it is foolish for
society to punish geniuses illiberally, for most crimes, because, in effect,
society is thereby punishing itself, by depriving itself of works of genius. To
punish the genius, through extended jail sentences, is to inflict loss and harm
on society itself. That is simply not a rational response to the crimes of
genius.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">As for my more extreme version of the
principle of least harm to society, this may be wiser, since even short
sentences can destroy a genius.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The examples of Alan Turing and Oscar Wilde
illustrate how even short sentences can break the health of geniuses, provoking
an early death, by natural means or even by suicide. Humanity lost greatly by
the deaths of Turing, Wilde and Swartz. Reflecting on their wasted potential,
we should be moved to reconsider the ways in which people of special talent to
society are punished, should they commit what is considered a crime, in their
day. It is senseless to deprive the world, of the fruits of their genius,
simply because society wishes to make an example of them – as was clearly the
case with Aaron Swartz and, arguably, Wilde and Turing.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Should a person of genius commit a crime, a
way should be found to punish them, if punishment is thought necessary, that
still allows them to do their creative work and does not limit, in any way,
their creative potential. Society needs geniuses far too much, to act so as to
snuff out either their lives or potential.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It should also be remembered that geniuses
are often at odds with society and non-conformist, even rebellious in their
actions. This attitude can lead them into trouble. Society should be understanding
of their nature when they do court trouble, in this way. It should not punish
them. The US military, for instance, was very understanding with Richard
Feynman, the physicist of genius, when he was working on the Manhattan project
to build the first atom bomb. He had the hobby of breaking into military safes
containing top secret documents. He did it for sport. The military, however,
did not punish him, but tolerated this behaviour, understanding that he was
just playing. It is a pity for Aaron Swartz and us all, that MIT was not so
understanding, when Swartz downloaded those documents. That lack of tolerance
has cost the world a young genius. Never more should a genius be lost in
similar circumstances. Let there be tolerance for the differences that make
geniuses what they are – and perhaps, make them occasionally cross the line of
what society would normally accept. The cost to society is too great, if this
accommodation can’t be made. Let us be wise enough to do so.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i>Posted by Valentine Cawley</i></span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com tells the true
story of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy,
aged seven years and two months, and his gifted brothers.
It is written by his father Valentine Cawley and updated
daily. Thanks for reading.</div>Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-20143034580770835452013-02-10T11:48:00.000+08:002013-02-10T11:48:00.640+08:00A perspective on mathematicsOn the 5th February 2013, Ainan confided: "The reason I like the Ackermann function is because it is so simple."<br />
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Some might not agree. The Wikipedia article on the Ackermann function states: <span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">In computability theory</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"> the </span><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">Ackermann function</b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">, named after Wilhelm Ackermann</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"> is one of the simplest and earliest-discovered examples of a total computable function</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"> that is not primitive recursive. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">All primitive recursive functions are total and computable, but the Ackermann function illustrates that not all total computable functions are primitive recursive."</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As maths goes, the Ackermann function is simple enough - but the point is that this is the view of a boy who has just turned 13. I suspect this is not a common view therefore.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ainan is growing into a young mathematician, along with his other attributes. He studies maths every semester at Taylor's University and is steadily growing in knowledge, skill, competence and confidence. He even makes up his own maths.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The other day, he was trying to explain to me a mathematical system he had designed. He was very enthusiastic about it. What struck me more than his enthusiasm was his repetition of: "It is so simple Daddy."</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I looked at the page he was writing on, densely scrawled with mathematical notation and thought that most people would disagree. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ainan is still growing intellectually. Each year sees him becoming more complex, more adept and that bit more beyond the expected. He is only 13, now...near the beginning of that year of his life. Thus, he still has quite a few years of intellectual growth left to him. It is becoming clear that he has already journeyed further, intellectually, than most ever do - yet he is still quite early on in his journey. I am left to wonder: how far will he go? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;">I look forward to being witness to his growth - and an assistant to it, when I can be.</span></span><br />
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aged seven years and two months, and his gifted brothers.
It is written by his father Valentine Cawley and updated
daily. Thanks for reading.</div>Valentine Cawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086966474154914172noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34400601.post-65975169616404826472013-02-03T19:52:00.001+08:002013-02-03T20:01:16.179+08:00Bacon Number and the size of Hollywood.<br />
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Hollywood is a very small place. I am not
talking physically – although it isn’t very big in that sense, either – I am
talking in terms of relationships.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Today, I went to the Oracle of Bacon,
online, and typed in my name, out of curiosity, to see what connection it could
find for me, with Kevin Bacon, the actor.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It said I have a Bacon Number of 2. That is
I am only two degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The relationship was that I appeared in
Vikingdom as Warick, (not yet released) with Ron Smoorenburg (as Captain of Jomsberg 2), who appeared with Kevin Bacon
in Elephant White (2011). This brought home to me just how small Hollywood is,
in terms of human associations.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Only by appearing in a film with Kevin
Bacon directly, could I improve upon this Bacon Number. Whether that will
happen is anyone’s guess. Nevertheless, it does show how small the filmic world
is.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">To put this Bacon Number score of 2 into
perspective, I looked up Dominic Purcell’s Bacon Number (he is the star of
Vikingdom, playing the hero Eirick). It is also 2. The connection is that
Dominic Purcell was in Scenes of the crime (2001) with Robert Wahlberg, who
went on to appear in Mystic River (2003) with Kevin Bacon.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Now, that is not to say that I am as well
established as Dominic Purcell – I am not, by a great margin – but in terms of
connectivity to Kevin Bacon in this limited sense, we are just as well
connected as each other.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">On the other hand, Tom Cruise has a Bacon
Number of 1, having appeared with him in A Few Good Men (1992).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Of course, this measure of Hollywood
connectivity is entirely arbitrary, since any other actor could have been
chosen. There are in fact many more well connected actors than Kevin Bacon (I
read recently that he was only the 444<sup>th</sup> most connected actor in
Hollywood). It is probable that the connectivity numbers would be smaller had a
more well connected actor been chosen as the “target” than Kevin Bacon. Whatever
the case, whomever is chosen to connect to, the result would be the same:
Hollywood is a very small “place”.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Given how small it is, I feel fortunate to
be a part of it, in my own way.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i>Posted by Valentine Cawley</i></span></div>
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