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	<title>Comments on: 9 Child Prodigies (Who Actually Ended Up Doing Something)</title>
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		<title>By: Gina</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/23412/comment-page-1#comment-229061</link>
		<dc:creator>Gina</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just a thought: what about those exceptional children who are never reaching fame or are mentioned outside the small local pool? How are they praised, helped, recognized?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just a thought: what about those exceptional children who are never reaching fame or are mentioned outside the small local pool? How are they praised, helped, recognized?</p>
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		<title>By: Megan</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/23412/comment-page-1#comment-213821</link>
		<dc:creator>Megan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I would just like to point out that Picasso probably wouldn&#039;t have painted in the way he did without Cezanne figuring most of it out first. I just learned about it today in my Art History Class. Cezanne was the one to start adding the element of time to his work, and Picasso just started doing it a lot better. :-)

Trivia! Picasso was accused of stealing the Mona Lisa when it randomly disappeared from the Louvre. Ended up a guy who was cleaning the framing (or something like that) sneaked in stole her to &quot;return her to her rightful owner&quot;. Needless to say, she was clearly found, and now no one can go near her.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would just like to point out that Picasso probably wouldn&#8217;t have painted in the way he did without Cezanne figuring most of it out first. I just learned about it today in my Art History Class. Cezanne was the one to start adding the element of time to his work, and Picasso just started doing it a lot better. :-)</p>
<p>Trivia! Picasso was accused of stealing the Mona Lisa when it randomly disappeared from the Louvre. Ended up a guy who was cleaning the framing (or something like that) sneaked in stole her to &#8220;return her to her rightful owner&#8221;. Needless to say, she was clearly found, and now no one can go near her.</p>
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		<title>By: John L</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/23412/comment-page-1#comment-194976</link>
		<dc:creator>John L</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What about Tiger Woods?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What about Tiger Woods?</p>
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		<title>By: Edward</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/23412/comment-page-1#comment-170641</link>
		<dc:creator>Edward</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No love for Shirley Temple?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No love for Shirley Temple?</p>
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		<title>By: Jorge</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/23412/comment-page-1#comment-170222</link>
		<dc:creator>Jorge</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>HP Lovecraft was writing complex prose and reading adult literature at age 5, then went on to pioneer a new kind of horror writing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>HP Lovecraft was writing complex prose and reading adult literature at age 5, then went on to pioneer a new kind of horror writing.</p>
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		<title>By: Hyacinth</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/23412/comment-page-1#comment-146145</link>
		<dc:creator>Hyacinth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If only all of these names and their histories were as well known to the general populous as the likes of Danny Bonaduce, et al.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If only all of these names and their histories were as well known to the general populous as the likes of Danny Bonaduce, et al.</p>
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		<title>By: Michelle</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/23412/comment-page-1#comment-145706</link>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Where&#039;s Neil Patrick Harris?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Where&#8217;s Neil Patrick Harris?</p>
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		<title>By: JJ Skittles</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/23412/comment-page-1#comment-145412</link>
		<dc:creator>JJ Skittles</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great site, great article.  Mental Floss is dangerous - before I know it, I&#039;m an hour in with several articles under my belt and plenty of goofy quizzes already invested.  With this article, I also know how far away I am from prodigy level.
Thanks for humbling me!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great site, great article.  Mental Floss is dangerous &#8211; before I know it, I&#8217;m an hour in with several articles under my belt and plenty of goofy quizzes already invested.  With this article, I also know how far away I am from prodigy level.<br />
Thanks for humbling me!</p>
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		<title>By: Corbet</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/23412/comment-page-1#comment-144610</link>
		<dc:creator>Corbet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is always refreshing to see children make something of themselves... In kind of the same realm as when a child star foregoes the whole drug habbit and becomes successful in their own right, it should also be celebrated when child prodigies manage to overcome the weight of their own genius and not crack under the pressure to become something or someone important.

I believe it should be noted, however, in regards to the bit on Piaget.... his theory on child development is only a theory afterall, and it is quite a stretch to refer to it as a revelation.  It is simply after nearly 80 years of being so closely associated with education curriculums and further advances in child psychology that we, as a collective, have begun to accept this &quot;theory&quot; as absolute.  The man behind the theory, lost, and his ideas made concrete; an example to follow.  It is nice to see that someone looked into where he came from though instead of focusing on the flawed nature of his proposed developmental process.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is always refreshing to see children make something of themselves&#8230; In kind of the same realm as when a child star foregoes the whole drug habbit and becomes successful in their own right, it should also be celebrated when child prodigies manage to overcome the weight of their own genius and not crack under the pressure to become something or someone important.</p>
<p>I believe it should be noted, however, in regards to the bit on Piaget&#8230;. his theory on child development is only a theory afterall, and it is quite a stretch to refer to it as a revelation.  It is simply after nearly 80 years of being so closely associated with education curriculums and further advances in child psychology that we, as a collective, have begun to accept this &#8220;theory&#8221; as absolute.  The man behind the theory, lost, and his ideas made concrete; an example to follow.  It is nice to see that someone looked into where he came from though instead of focusing on the flawed nature of his proposed developmental process.</p>
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		<title>By: Kathryn</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/23412/comment-page-1#comment-132735</link>
		<dc:creator>Kathryn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So glad to see that a couple of women made your list! They often get left out of conversations about child prodigies because there aren&#039;t as many of them as there are male child prodigies. Great stuff!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So glad to see that a couple of women made your list! They often get left out of conversations about child prodigies because there aren&#8217;t as many of them as there are male child prodigies. Great stuff!</p>
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