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 William James Sidis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sidis was born to Jewish Russian immigrant parents, Boris Sidis and Sarah Sidis née Mandelbaum.
In 1919, Sidis was arrested for participating in an anti-draft May Day parade (though initially a socialist, Sidis later favored libertarianism, another term he may have coined) and sentenced to 18 months in jail under the Sedition Act of 1918 for acting as a conscientious objector.
Many of these depictions rely on Sidis' negative image in the press of the day, which refused to acknowledge that Sidis' intellect could be attributed to anything but sacrificial monotonous cramming—exactly what his parents argued against (his mother once noted that the papers weren't writing about anyone she knew).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_James_Sidis   (1104 words)

  
 Good Will Sidis
Sidis (the name rhymes with Midas) was born a century ago, on April 1, 1898.
Boris Sidis (A.B. 1894, Ph.D. 1908), his father, was an early psychotherapist known for his work with hypnosis.
Billy Sidis qualified for admission to Harvard at 9, but had to wait two years to matriculate as a special student.
www.webenet.com /goodwillsidis.htm   (754 words)

  
 Sidis vs New Yorker
Sidis is no longer with them and they will not tell you where he has gone, but they will forward any mail that comes for him.
Sidis told them he hated Harvard and that anyone who sends his son to college is a fool―a boy can learn more in a public library.
Sidis is chiefly concerned with the Okamakammessett tribe, which he describes as having had a kind of proletarian federation.
www.sidis.net /newyorker3.htm   (3307 words)

  
 Sidis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Their son William James Sidis (1898–1944), an eccentric genius and child prodigy.
Sidis is a genus of ladybirds, in the family Coccinellidae.
The Sidi are a community of Sufis from the Indian region of Gujarat that arrived from East Africa in the 12th century.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sidis   (138 words)

  
 Sidis v. F.R.Publishing
William James Sidis was the unwilling subject of a brief biographical sketch and cartoon printed in The New Yorker weekly magazine for August 14, 1937.
The subtitle is explained by the closing sentence, quoting Sidis as saying 'with a grin' that it was strange, 'but, you know, I was born on April Fool's Day.' Accompanying the biography is a small cartoon showing the genius of eleven years lecturing to a group of astounded professors.
Since then Sidis has cloaked himself in obscurity, but his subsequent history, containing as it did the answer to the question of whether or not he had fulfilled his early promise, was still a matter of public concern.
www.nsulaw.nova.edu /Faculty/richmondm/defamation/Sidis.htm   (2863 words)

  
 Inveterate Bystander
Sidis told the reporter that he was not the boy-wonder he once was.
Sidis filled it with page after page of detailed information on how the transfers are interpreted, how to use them to their best advantage and the techniques used by the devoted "peridromophile" (his term for a someone who collects street car transfers) to find abandoned transfers.
Sidis told the reporter that he was no longer the mathematical genius he once was.
spiritrambler.blogspot.com /2003/11/homewilliam-james-sidis-smartest.html   (2032 words)

  
 Africans in India
Sidis are settled in Gujarat, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.
Since some cultural practices of Sidis, such as percussion music and the ritual embodiment of ancestors venerated as saints, seem to mirror comparable practices in Zanzibar studied by anthropologists under the heading of `African spirit possession cults', I was interested in possible symbolic links between them, or the diaspora of African religious practices in India.
To give an illustration: Sidi maids could be given as part of the dowry of a Rajput bride and had to move with her to her husband's house.
www.flonnet.com /fl2218/stories/20050909002609100.htm   (2470 words)

  
 No. 969: William James Sidis
illiam James Sidis was born in 1898 to Russian immigrants -- intellectual refugees from the pogroms.
Sidis graduated at 16 and went off to Rice University as a math professor.
Sidis took up the socialist cause and was jailed in 1918 during a communist anti-war rally.
www.uh.edu /engines/epi969.htm   (523 words)

  
 58 Wn. App. 665, MICHAEL D. SIDIS, Appellant, v. BRODIE/DOHRMANN, INC., ET AL, Respondents.
Sidis contends that the trial court erred in determining that the statute of limitations had expired on his claims against Spring and Cambridge; Sidis further contends that material factual issues exist regarding Brodie/Dohrmann's alleged negligence.
Sidis initially contends that the trial court erred in dismissing Cambridge and Spring because the 3-year statute of limitations had expired.
Sidis maintains that proper commencement of the action as to Brodie/Dohrmann tolled the statute of limitations as to Cambridge and Spring, at least until Brodie/Dohrmann was dismissed.
www.mrsc.org /mc/courts/appellate/058wnapp/058wnapp0665.htm   (2297 words)

  
 The Straight Dope: Why did William Sidis, the world's (2nd) smartest human, achieve so little in life?
All we know is that Sidis, celebrated as a prodigy in his youth, produced virtually nothing of consequence as an adult.
Sidis was born April 1, 1898, to Russian Jewish immigrants to the U.S. From the evidence, Boris and Sarah Sidis were brilliant but neurotic--always a dangerous combination in parents.
Sidis was later estimated to have an IQ in the 250-300 range, and while that's conjectural (hell, foolish--on what basis could the scale be run up that high?), there's little doubt that he was a very smart guy.
www.straightdope.com /classics/a991210.html   (788 words)

  
 DG131.Sidis.bio
William James Sidis was born on April 1, 1898 in Brookline (MA), the son of Boris and Sarah Sidis.
Sidis joined the Socialist Party in 1918 (circa), and on May 1, 1919 led a May Day demonstration and parade organized by the Party.
Sidis died in Brookline (MA) on July 17, 1944 of a cerebral hemmorhage.
www.swarthmore.edu /Library/peace/DG100-150/DG131Eichel/dg131sidisbio.htm   (646 words)

  
 HISTORICAL FEATURE : History of the Ethiopian Diaspora in India
Sidi Massut, who had been denied some of his revenue from Surat, nevertheless sailed there with fleet in 1759, and remained there throughout the monsoon period.
During this time the Sidis "not only retained the government of the castle", as Cambridge asserts, but also "greatly encroached on that of the town": they appropriated no less than one-third of its revenues.
Sidi claims to the area were later confirmed by the British in 1759, after which Sidi control of the area continued for many years.
www.addistribune.com /Archives/2000/05/05-05-00/Hist.htm   (1390 words)

  
 Boris Sidis
Sidis was one of the first to undertake really scientific exploration of the subconscious region of the mind, and his findings therein were both varied and of practical importance.
In 1904 Sidis removed to Brookline, Massachusetts, to engage in the private practice of psychotherapy, to gain a medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and to continue his scientific researches.
Sidis returned to New York to accept the position of associate psychologist and psychopathologist in the recently established Pathological Institute of the New York State Hospitals from 1896 to 1901.
www.berdichev.org /boris_sidis.htm   (2126 words)

  
 Exploring Africa -> Students-> Africa and the World-> Africans in India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Sidis, the representatives of Habshi or Abyssinian slaves and soldiers of fortune are found … in Janjira island.
Rich Sidis generally deck their houses with swords, shields, lances, muskets, knives, and daggers hung on the walls from wooden pegs.
Sidis married other Indians who were not Sidis., and even Sidis living together did not always speak the same African language and used Indian languages to communicate with one another.
exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu /curriculum/lm15/stu_acttwo.html   (1343 words)

  
 117 Wn.2d 325, P.2d 781, SIDIS v. BRODIE/DOHRMANN, INC.
In 1984, Michael Sidis, a restaurant cook, was injured when a table-side, alcohol-burning stove exploded as he was refueling it.
Sidis argued that service on Brodie/Dohrmann tolled the statute of limitation as to all defendants named in the complaint because RCW 4.16.170, the tolling statute, states: "[T]he plaintiff shall cause one or more of the defendants to be served.
While it is true that RCW 4.16.170, literally read, tolls the statute of limitation for an unspecified period, that period is not infinite, as the court implied.
www.mrsc.org /mc/courts/supreme/117wn2d/117wn2d0325.htm   (1840 words)

  
 globalinfo.org - Dec 22, INDIA (#34229)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Sidis were also once deeply involved in the agate trade, and one of their most beloved saints, or Pirs, is Bava Gor; an African agate trader who Sidis believe brought Islam to India.
Sidis still retain the widespread East Africa performance aesthetic of n'goma, which they call "goma," and it comes through most strongly in the connection between their drummers and dancers.
Sidi ritual, like much Afro-Caribbean ritual, is focused around the intercession of their saints, and a ritual at a Muslim Sidi shrine would be surprisingly familiar to practitioners of Voudoun or Santeria.
www.globalinfo.org /eng/reader.asp?ArticleId=34229   (1289 words)

  
 The Prodigy
One of the intriguing facts about William Sidis, as is the case with other “manufactured” prodigies such as Norbert Wiener and John Stuart Mill is that their fathers tried to make prodigies of them and succeeded(!), though at terrible personal cost to the children upon whom this was thrust..
‘Sidis’ he wrote in his memoirs, ‘was too young to be a companion for me, and much too eccentric, although we were in one class together in postulate theory, and I respected the work he did…..He was considerably behind the children of his age in social development and social adaptability.
Sidis admitted that her love might have achieved wonders with him, for whereas he might be stubborn with others, there is nothing he would not have done to please her.
hiqnews.megafoundation.org /William_Sidis.htm   (14736 words)

  
 Sidis Worth It?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
What sets the Sidis apart for me is the fit of their upper, particularly in the heel.
My Sidis are the most comfortable cycling shoe I have ever had on my feet, and I should note that I have a very hard time finding really comfortable shoes.
Yeah, my Sidi techno's are 8 years old and the plastic around the buckle has finally disintegrated into 6 pieces (too much flex running time adapter and cleats).
www.cyclingforums.com /t175829.html   (1330 words)

  
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If you had read the Sarah Sidis' "Sidis Story" carefully, you would remember her commenting that she was astounded he learned Latin at 2 since in her opinion he began to talk late.
His father, Boris Sidis, was a genius as well, who knew 27 languages and wrote excellent works on social psychology.
It wasn't until M.I.T. professor Comstock predicted young Sidis to be the greatest mathematician of the century and a combination of envy and his supposed failure to live up to that claim that the failure myth came about.
hiqnews.megafoundation.org /2003-10-18-Letters_to_the_Editor.htm   (774 words)

  
 William James Sidis - THE EXTENT OF RIGHTS -So what ever happened to Billy?
Sidis sued for libel and invasion of privacy.
Though he won a small out-of-court settlement for libel, the invasion of privacy charge was dismissed by the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark decision.
'The article is merciless in its dissection of intimate details of its subject's personal life,' the court conceded, but Sidis was 'a public figure' and thus could not claim protection from the interest of the press, which continued to hound him until his death in 1944.
www.llpoh.org /sidis.html   (1202 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/William James Sidis
Young William could not deal with this anomaly, and became so agitated that he had to be removed from the dining room.
A comment that Aldous Huxley once made about Sir Isaac Newton might equally have been said of Sidis, For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things.
Wallace, Amy, The Prodigy: A biography of William James Sidis, America's Greatest Child Prodigy, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. 1986.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/William_James_Sidis   (656 words)

  
 BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | India's lost Africans: Your response   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
She is now in Bombay pursuing her research, and one main theme is to identify the African provenance of the distinctive music played by isolated Sidi communities in the western Indian state of Gujarat.
And although the Sidis are one of the most overlooked elements of the massive African diaspora, we heard about a lot of research now underway.
One or two e-mails complained that the Sidis were being regarded as an anthropological curiosity rather than a living community, and resented the implication that Africans settled in new continents only as slaves.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1077000/1077982.stm   (596 words)

  
 The greatest mind ever
Upon arriving in America Boris Sidis taught himself to read and write English in four months and educated himself with a work-one-week-study-for-two policy.
Princess Diana was a recent victim of the tyranny of the press, but she was not the first and will not be the last.
William Sidis was denied privacy and the freedom to live his life in the way he wanted and withdrew into his shell.
www.daveslater.telinco.co.uk /sidis.htm   (1512 words)

  
 Product Review
I've got two pairs of Carnac Orions in which I regularly ride around, and also some Sidis, the name of which escapes me (perhaps it is the Verona).
The Sidis have the Micro-Lock system, which is a small winch-like mechanism that tightens down the upper.
One thing about the Ellipses that IS a time saver over the Sidis: simply the fact that it's a strap, not a winch.
www.slowtwitch.com /mainheadings/prodreview/newproduct/ellipse.html   (601 words)

  
 William James Sidis on Unconscious Intelligence
Bill Sidis knew that his successors would eventually grasp fundamental ineptness of his father's, his friends', his antagonists', and academia's invalid and passé SOMiticisms.
Sidis clearly did not see mind as a quantum stage.] But the same can be said of the consciousness of another person; it is only through circumstantial evidence that I know of it.
Sidis was fully capable of both denying that assumption and considering alternates and their profound implications.
www.quantonics.com /William_James_Sidis_on_Unconscious_Intelligence.html   (3948 words)

  
 Great performances from students' plays   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
SidiS is the name of a restaurant in Boston, appropriately owned by Sid (Ken Clary '00), to which Gwen (Janet Chieh '99) brings her friend Quin (David Day '98) to celebrate his promotion to Tier Manager at his company.
Quin seems uncomfortable at the restaurant and tells Gwen later that it was at SidiS that his college girlfriend, the only girl he ever loved, left him.
Chieh came off as haughty and a bit too comical in her voice inflections and motions, creating an interesting blend of humor and severity which may have not been in the script.
www-tech.mit.edu /V116/N60/plays.60a.html   (1154 words)

  
 Atletico Rules   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In one dusty attic, he found a bulky manuscript called The Tribes and the States in which Sidis argues persuasively that the New England political system was profoundly influenced by the democratic federation of the Penacook Indians.
He was trying to tell people some of the most important things that could be said about their country and they were rewarding him by publicly calling him a 'fool' and failing to publish what he had written.
It's interesting that Pirisig wrote about Sidis, since there seems to be a bit of similarity: both leading hermit type lives, and both interested in the influence of American Indians on American Culture (in terms of democracy and speech patterns i.e.
atleticorules.blogspot.com /2003_01_12_atleticorules_archive.html   (9896 words)

  
 NiiCa - African Diaspora   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Some Sidis are keenly aware of their past, and a few remain in touch with relatives in Africa.
In the nearby town of Junagadh, a smaller group of Sidis lives alongside the shrine of Bava Gor, an ancient Sufi Muslim holyman who was himself of African descent.
Amy Catlin believes that the Sidis of western India came from coastal and inland villages in east Africa which were raided by slave traders.
www.niica.on.ca /diaspora/IndiAfrica.aspx   (482 words)

  
 Yisrael Sidis, Ph.D.
Dr Sidis is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an Assistant in Biochemistry at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Another set of studies focuses on the molecular mechanisms that mediate the antagonistic effects of activins and its closely related factors inhibins in the context of various reproductive cell models.
Characterization of inhibin/activin subunit, activin receptor, and follistatin messenger ribonucleic acid in human and mouse oocytes: evidence for activin's paracrine signaling from granulosa cells to oocytes.
www.mgh.harvard.edu /reproendo/reu_Sidis.htm   (465 words)

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