Humans Getting Dumber Over the Years?

John Paul Pennebaker, Sealed Power Piston Rings, 1933, gelatin silver print, 1934 Art and Industry Exhibition Photograph Collection, Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts. John Paul Pennebaker. ...

A note to Brilliant Report readers: What follows is the transcript of a speech I gave to a gathering of college admissions counselors last week. In it, I try out some of the ideas that will appear in my forthcoming book. I'd love to hear your ...

I know this is a very well-read and well-educated group, so Im sure many of you have encountered the Wallace Stevens poem Thirteen Ways of Looking At A Blackbird. The genius of Stevens's poem is that he takes something so familiar—an ordinary, ...

Source: Eric Bridiers (U.S. Mission Photo). Some of Supreme Court Yesterday, Scalia added to this impressive list by writing not only one of his own best Fourth Amendment dissents, but one of the best Fourth Amendments dissents, ever. In a 5-4 ...

More on: , , , Julianne Jennings on and : Mainstream America has effectively marginalized our inherited way of being and, although restricted, it is still very much alive despite the history and purpose of the Europeans, which was to produce people ...

Reviewed by Consider the following: These are not facts that business schools typically expose their students to. But in Investing: The Last Liberal Art, Robert Hagstrom maintains that the knowledge conveyed in a liberal arts curriculum begets wide ...

Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer The ability to filter out motion in the background is an important perceptual tool CREDIT: J. Adam Fenster | University of Rochester A simple visual test is surprisingly accurate at predicting IQ, according to new ...

The tenth anniversary of completion of the Human Genome Project (HGP) passed this week, providing opportunity for much needed reflection upon the actual outcomes resulting from this global endeavour. Touted by some as the greatest scientific ...

Until recently, if a pregnant woman wanted to determine the genetic health of her baby, she had to endure a series of crude and invasive tests. Early in her second trimester, she would be given a blood test called the triple screen, which measures ...