intelligence
Science

Eight Ways To Make Yourself Smarter

It often seems like everything you do, touch, or eat can make you smarter or dumber. But that’s not quite the case.

February 29, 2012
Science

Sniffing Rosemary Makes You Smarter

There are plenty of strange alternative uses for herbs. Rosemary, for instance, is supposed to soothe the skin and cure dandruff — though I can’t promise how well it will do either. Science, however, now tells us it definitely can make you smarter.

July 29, 2011
Software

Are Internet Explorer Users Dumber?

Gizmodo AU

A new study from a self-described “psychometric consultant” and recruitment firm says that there’s no real difference in IQ between other browsers — but IE users are, well, below average. To study the “effects of cognitive ability on the choice of web browser”, they ran a free online IQ test to over 100,000 people, and plotted the average IQ scores based on the browser used.

May 31, 2011
Science

How To Make Yourself Smarter In 20 Days

Supercharge your brain by spending 20 minutes each day for the next 20 days in mental training. You’ll reap the benefits for the next three months says a recent scientific study.

May 25, 2011
News

Military Orders Millions Of Employees To Spy On Each Other

The faces at the Pentagon are still mighty red since WikiLeaks. And they don’t want a repeat. A new directive from the Department of defence aims at squelching leaks – by deputising a massive number of employees as involuntary snitches.

May 20, 2011
Science

Five Ways To Improve Your Intelligence

Andrea Kuszewski, a behaviour therapist, has come up with five rules of life, that if followed, will “maximise your cognitive potential”. Basically, make give your brain more wrinkles. Luckily, you guys are probably living like this already.

May 18, 2011
Science

A Flaw In One Gene May Smooth Your Brain And Make You Less Smart

A single gene may alter the shape of your brain and determine your intelligence according to new research from the Yale School of Medicine.

March 10, 2011
Science

If Humanity Went Extinct, What Species Would Replace Us?

Could another species someday replace us as Earth’s dominant intelligent life and, if so, which species? To answer that question, we need to understand just what intelligence really is. And why, from an evolutionary standpoint, an organism would even want it.

July 30, 2010

CIA And Google’s Joint Investment Raising Eyebrows

Cambridge startup Recorded Future trawls the internet for raw data that it uses in an attempt to predict world events – understandably interesting stuff. But what do both Google and the CIA both see in the company? Wired digs deeper.

June 6, 2010
Science

Is The Internet Making Us Smarter Or Stupider?

It’s by no means a new debate, but it remains an important one, and today the Wall Street Journal tackles the issue with a pair of essays on what exactly internet’s doing to our noggins. So, which is it?

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