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At 12-years-old, Jacob Barnett is a genius. He’s already in college, his IQ is higher than Einstein’s, and for fun he‘s working on an expanded version of that man’s theory of relativity. So far, the signs are good. Professors are astounded. So what else does a boy genius with vast brilliance do in his free time? Disprove the big bang, of course. Original Story is below: http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011103200369 When Jacob Barnett first learned about the Schrödinger equation for quantum mechanics, he could hardly contain himself. For three straight days, his little brain buzzed with mathematical functions. From within his 12-year-old, mildly...

This short video is a small example of the values and priorities of Israeli parents. While Israeli children are busy bringing beauty into the world through hard work and dedicated efforts to better the world through music, art, literature, discoveries in medicine, and innovations in high tech, agriculture, and a myriad of others peaceful activities, Palestinian parents and teachers and political and religious leaders in Gaza and the West Bank and much of the rest of the Muslim world put their energies and squander their resources in giving their children lessons and textbooks teaching hate and then they strap suicide...

Zhang entered one of China's top universities before he was 13 years old. Let's see: when I was 13, I was still waiting to go through puberty. Zhang replaced Lee Kai-fu, (I have written quite a few blogs about Lee) as director of Microsoft's research center in Beijing in 2000. One thing that Zhang could do that no one else could before him was convince the Chinese government to award post-doctoral degrees to a foreign company for the first time. Zhang seems to be especially skilled at dealing with Chinese officials and his ability to cut through red tape to...

Canada may lose brilliant toddler to brain drain U.S. Arabs to pay tuition: Boy names capitals of 40 countries and speaks 3 languages CREDIT: Tim Fraser, CanWest News Service Bachar Sbeiti, a three-year-old from Windsor, starts class next week at a school for gifted children in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. His funding was raised by the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee. Bachar Sbeiti can rattle off Islam's 99 names for God, knows the capitals and flags of dozens of countries and speaks three languages. And, at three years old, he is poised to become the youngest member of Canada's brain drain. The boy...