Category Archives: Intelligence
Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying America
From Alternet.org:
“It’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant.” Barack Obama finally said it.
Though a successful political and electoral strategy, the Right’s stand against intelligence has steered them far off course, leaving them — and us — unable to deal successfully with the complex and dynamic circumstances we face as a nation and a [...]
Plastic Brain Outsmarts Experts
Training can increase fluid intelligence, once thought to be fixed at birth
Training a person’s working memory may increase his or her general intelligence.
Can human beings rev up their intelligence quotients, or are they stuck with IQs set by their genes at birth? Until recently, nature seemed to be the clear winner over nurture.
But new research, [...]
Why our brains are so clumsy
Free thinking, indeed any kind of thinking, is dependent on the abilities of our brains. Learning more about our brain can give us insight into the process and products of thinking.
In his new book, Kluge: The haphazard construction of the human mind, Gary Marcus aims to take the human species down a peg or two. [...]
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