[virgil283]

....."“I would say someone like him comes along maybe once in a generation,” Johnson says. “He’s not just smart; he’s cool and articulate. I think he may be the most amazing kid I’ve ever met.”...(H/T instapundit)

[cripplecreek]

One afternoon, Tiffany ducked her head out of the door to the garage and spotted Taylor, in his canary yellow nuclear-technician’s coveralls, watching a pool of liquid spreading across the concrete floor.
“Tay, it’s time for supper.”

“I think I’m going to have to clean this up first.”

“That’s not the stuff you said would kill us if it broke open, is it?”

“I don’t think so,” he said. “Not instantly.”

LOL

[virgil283]

This is an excellent story about parents who guided their genus sons into fulfilling scientific careers.... Plus it is very well written even by today's standards...

[SatinDoll]

My nephew wanted a laboratorry set. His grandparents complied. Then he started raiding the kitchen for materials and requesting slow-burning fuses - he was intending to make explosives!

So, I bought him a book on pumpkin chunking and other delightful ways to make object fly while making big booms. Since the only location in our backyard that a trebuchet would be able to work resulted in two houses being spattered with pumpkin entrails, nephew and his best friend made the war engine at the friend’s house.

Only their flock of sheep was terrorized.

[Tupelo]

Safety Third.

[LegendHasIt]

The son of one of my cousins started out like that.
Full scholarship to study both chemical and aeronautic engineering.

Dropped out halfway through. Now he checks tire pressures and cleans the windows on Air Force planes. With luck, if he re-ups, they will maybe let him pump fuel into them.

[Cyber Liberty]

The kids sat on the operator’s lap and took turns at the controls, guiding the boom as it swung above the rooftops on Northern Hills Drive....

That's really stupid. I doubt that happened. That is incredibly dangerous.

[muawiyah]

Regarding Smart Babies ~ we could use that crane.

[Nifster]

Yeah but I looked at his eyes.....this kid is either going to go bonkers and sit in a corner wondering about whatever or he is going to go out and slaughter dozens of others who aren’t him.

[Boiling point]

Wow! That kid has more brains in his little finger than Obama has ever even been in the same room with!