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China Thinks We're Born With Our Brains
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Americans tend to think that our IQ is a combination of the genes we were born with and the way we were educated, but the Chinese think that at least half of the variation in intelligence quotient, or IQ, is inherited. The average person's IQ is 100. The average Nobel laureate's...
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Jocks Smarter Than Bookworms (At Some Things, Anyway)
Friday, February 1, 2013
We don't know about football players, but English Premier League soccer players, NHL hockey players, France's Top 14 club rugby players, and even elite amateur athletes have better developed cognitive functions than the average university student.
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Dumb and Dumber or Smart and Smarter?
Friday, January 18, 2013
Is the human race getting dumber? geneticist Gerald Crabtree thinks that human intelligence peaked several thousand years ago and from then on, has been on a slow decline.
His argument is based on the fact that for more than 99% of human evolutionary history, we lived as...
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His argument is based on the fact that for more than 99% of human evolutionary history, we lived as...
Your Intelligence Depends on Who's Listening
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Social factors can have a powerful effect on our intelligence. Most of us feel intelligent and amusing when talking to a particular person and feel dumb and inarticulate when talking to someone else.
In the October 7th edition of the New York Times, Annie Murphy Paul quotes psychologist Joshua Aronson as saying that we shouldn't...
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In the October 7th edition of the New York Times, Annie Murphy Paul quotes psychologist Joshua Aronson as saying that we shouldn't...
How to be Instantly Smarter
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
The idea of a simple, cheap and widely available device that could boost brain function (no more late nights studying for exams?) sounds too good to be true, but it may be a reality. Neurologists are coming up with brain stimulation techniques that may make us all...
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High Altitudes Produce Bigger Brains
Thursday, October 27, 2011
New research shows that The higher up in latitude you live, the bigger your brain AND eyeballs will be. But does this mean that people who live in these regions are better thinkers? Relatively few innovations have come from people living in these parts of the world, but...
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Big Breasted Women Have Higher I.Q.s
Friday, April 1, 2011
Forget the "blonde" jokes--it turns out that big-breasted women have higher I.Q.s. Yes, a recent study of over a thousand women revealed that those with larger...
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Too Smart for Their Own Good
Tuesday, October 7, 2003
Being smart isn't always successful in the evolutionary race. Swiss researchers wondered why, if intelligence is such an asset, we haven't evolved to the point where everyone is super smart. Since this hasn't happened, there must be some good reasons to be dumb. Scottish researchers have discovered that it pays to be smart if you're poor, but...
Chewing Gum Makes You Smarter
Friday, March 22, 2002
Chewing gum could make us smarter, according to a study carried out in the U.K. by the University of Northumbria and the Cognitive Research Unit in Reading. They found that chewing gum has a positive effect on cognitive tasks such as thinking and memory.
?The results were extremely clear and specifically we found that chewing gum...
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