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Vicious (Villains, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.18 — 318,568 ratings — published 2013
Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,161,209 ratings — published 2015
Steelheart (The Reckoners, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.14 — 195,010 ratings — published 2013
I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.93 — 351,555 ratings — published 2010
The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.07 — 233,041 ratings — published 2005
Glass Sword (Red Queen, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.78 — 420,388 ratings — published 2016
Firefight (The Reckoners, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.25 — 111,910 ratings — published 2015
Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,207,270 ratings — published 2011
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,352,496 ratings — published 2011
Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.10 — 751,360 ratings — published 2013
Super Human (The New Heroes/Quantum Prophecy, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,806 ratings — published 2006
Gone (Gone, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.87 — 210,035 ratings — published 2008
Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.06 — 479,681 ratings — published 2008
Super Powereds: Year 1 (Super Powereds, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.34 — 13,803 ratings — published 2013
The Power of Six (Lorien Legacies, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.14 — 142,363 ratings — published 2011
Ignite Me (Shatter Me, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.45 — 664,536 ratings — published 2014
The Awakening (The New Heroes/Quantum Prophecy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,688 ratings — published 2006
Vengeful (Villains, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.12 — 127,969 ratings — published 2018
Seed (The Dire Saga, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.31 — 767 ratings — published 2016
Born (The Dire Saga, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,058 ratings — published
The Rules of Supervillainy (The Supervillainy Saga, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,046 ratings — published 2015
Ex-Heroes (Ex-Heroes, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.86 — 16,679 ratings — published 2010
Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain (Please Don't Tell My Parents, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,784 ratings — published 2014
Super Powereds: Year 2 (Super Powereds, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.55 — 11,472 ratings — published 2013
The Rise of Nine (Lorien Legacies, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.16 — 112,362 ratings — published 2012
The Warrior Heir (The Heir Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.94 — 54,996 ratings — published 2006
The Ascension: A Super Human Clash (The New Heroes/Quantum Prophecy, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,614 ratings — published 2011
Playing for Keeps (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,278 ratings — published 2008
Playing with Fire (Tales of an Extraordinary Girl, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,833 ratings — published 2006
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,408,752 ratings — published 2005
Virals (Virals, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,780 ratings — published 2010
Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.25 — 25,252 ratings — published 2017
Renegades (Renegades, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.11 — 164,205 ratings — published 2017
The Wim Hof Method: Activate Your Full Human Potential (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.81 — 18,185 ratings — published 2020
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.13 — 26,234 ratings — published 2019
Hench (Hench, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.00 — 26,569 ratings — published 2020
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,096,662 ratings — published 2012
Ruin and Rising (Shadow and Bone, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.97 — 588,347 ratings — published 2014
Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.80 — 680,670 ratings — published 2013
The Never Hero (Chronicles of Jonathan Tibbs #1)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,116 ratings — published 2014
Starfall (The Chronicles of Fid #3)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.67 — 457 ratings — published 2019
Behind Distant Stars (The Chronicles of Fid #2)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.59 — 460 ratings — published 2018
Fid's Crusade (The Chronicles of Fid #1)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.47 — 709 ratings — published 2018
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ワンパンマン 1 一撃 [One Punch Man 1: Ichigeki] (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.47 — 84,115 ratings — published 2012
Semper Fi (Superhuman, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.30 — 971 ratings — published
The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 3.92 — 134,382 ratings — published 2013
Countdown to Apocalypse (Superhuman #2)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,612 ratings — published
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.27 — 746,045 ratings — published 2014
Super Powereds: Year 3 (Super Powereds, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.58 — 10,439 ratings — published 2015
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as superhuman)
avg rating 4.16 — 187,361 ratings — published 2016
“Mice that had initially shown a fear of stranger mice showed no sign of this behavior after they were treated with suramin. They behaved like ordinary mice for as long as the suramin was in their systems. After five weeks, when the suramin was effectively gone, their autistic behavior returned.
Whether blocking purines will have the same effect in people needs to be tested. Moreover, suramin has a long-term toxic effect, so a safer alternative needs to be found. Nevertheless, that an autistic human could potentially be granted a normal life with a single drug is amazing. Yet, as I worked through Dr. Naviaux’s papers one thought lingered: Would an autistic savant want an ordinary life?”
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Whether blocking purines will have the same effect in people needs to be tested. Moreover, suramin has a long-term toxic effect, so a safer alternative needs to be found. Nevertheless, that an autistic human could potentially be granted a normal life with a single drug is amazing. Yet, as I worked through Dr. Naviaux’s papers one thought lingered: Would an autistic savant want an ordinary life?”
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“In case you think I am just making some sort of wild speculation here about Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for Algernon coming true, think again. In Keyes’s story, a mentally disabled janitor named Charlie is healed of his handicap with an experimental medical procedure shortly after it does the same for a mouse named Algernon.10 Charlie’s tale was the stuff of fiction when it was written in the 1950s, but—based upon work being done in cellular biology—it does not look as if it will remain fiction for much longer.
Robert Naviaux, a cellular biologist at UC San Diego, was fascinated by autistic savants and curious about what precisely was happening in their brains that granted them their incredible abilities. “Neurons that are developing contacts in the brain ‘look’ for little lights in the darkness, the metabolic activity of other neurons that have been activated by use,” explained Dr. Naviaux. Once they find these lights, they send out projections called axons to handshake with them and form connections.”
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Robert Naviaux, a cellular biologist at UC San Diego, was fascinated by autistic savants and curious about what precisely was happening in their brains that granted them their incredible abilities. “Neurons that are developing contacts in the brain ‘look’ for little lights in the darkness, the metabolic activity of other neurons that have been activated by use,” explained Dr. Naviaux. Once they find these lights, they send out projections called axons to handshake with them and form connections.”
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