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Adam Piore

Science

Why We Keep Playing the Lottery

“It’s just beyond our experience—we have nothing in our evolutionary history that prepares us or primes us, no intellectual architecture, to try and grasp the remoteness of those odds.”

Adam Piore Nautilus Aug 2013 15min Permalink

Science

When Brain Damage Unlocks the Genius Within

The science of acquired savant syndrome.

Adam Piore Popular Science Feb 2013 15min Permalink