送交者: fair 于 2005-12-01, 16:47:57:
两片文章比较感兴趣：
1) Getting a Leg Up on Land
讨论鱼如何进化到陆地上的。
2) Inside the Mind of a Savant
讨论人脑和记忆的关系。
"But phenomenal memory is itself the skill in a 54-year-old man named Kim Peek. His friends call him "Kim-puter."
He can, indeed, pull a fact from his mental library as fast as a search engine can mine the Internet. He read Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October in one hour and 25 minutes. Four months later, when asked, he gave the name of the Russian radio operator in the book, referring to the page describing the character and quoting several passages verbatim."