Web links from the book:

1. Stephen Hawking’s website features a brief biography, information about his professional accomplishments, and downloadable copies of public lectures.
    
2. At Not Exactly Rocket Science you can read about tool use in chimpanzees and see a video of chimps making and using fishing sticks.
Nature’s Tools: How Birds Use Them is an excerpt from a BBC wildlife film that shows a New Caledonia crow fishing for grubs. Also, you can see Figaro, the cockatoo mentioned in the application, demonstrating his inventiveness.
    
3. The Bell Curve Flattened, an article in the online magazine Slate, refutes ideas about genetic racial differences in intelligence that were presented in the controversial book The Bell Curve.
    
4. You can get information about various kinds of intellectual disability from the The Arc, the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, the National Fragile X Foundation, and the National Library of Medicine’s Williams Syndrome page.
    
5. Sources of information on autism and autism spectrum disorders include the National Institute of Mental Health’s website Autism Spectrum Disorders, Internet Mental Health’s Autism Spectrum Disorder site, and the Autism Research Institute’s section on Treating Autism (see menu item). Mapping Connectivity has information about connectivity mapping in autism, with photos illustrating 7 methods used.
    
6. The Wisconsin Medical Society’s Savant Syndrome 2013—Myths and Realities will dispel some of your notions about savantism and even about intelligence. Then, two videos of Kim Peek are guaranteed to impress you.
    
7. Temple Grandin’s Web Page features her professional work along with a brief description of her.
    
8. The Attention Deficit Disorder Association has high-quality articles on ADHD, and the National Institute of Mental Health explores a number of topics at its Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder site.

The news articles about the newly approved ADHD testing device are available from Health Day and the U. S. Food and Drug Administration.

Other websites:

• TED talk from Dr. Gregory Petsko, Chair of the Department of Biomedicine at Brandeis University, about the epidemic of Alzheimer’s disease in the next 30 years, due to the increased lifespan of humans (16 min). There also is a 3 minute Q&A video.
   
• Alanna Shaikh, a specialist in global health, discusses the effects of Alzheimer’s disease in her own family in a TED talk filmed in Scotland in 2012 (7 min).