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Thursday November 22nd 2007

Babies 'show social intelligence' 16901

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7103804.stm

by oblio Wed Nov 21st, 2007 10:36pm (from #bor) [score: 259 | approval: 75%]

But, according to new research, they can already assess someone's intentions towards them, deciding who is a likely friend or enemy. More →

babies, intelligence

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Wednesday November 14th 2007

Curvy women may be a clever bet 16784

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7090300.stm?lsm

by --B Mon Nov 12th, 2007 12:17pm (from #bor) [score: 338 | approval: 100%]

Women with curvy figures are likely to be brighter than waif-like counterparts and may well produce more intelligent offspring, a US study suggests. More →

curves, health, intelligence, study

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Monday February 12th 2007

How Not To Talk To Your Kids 13273

http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/

by coolguy Mon Feb 12th, 2007 2:48pm (from #bor) [score: 282 | approval: 100%]

For the past ten years, psychologist Carol Dweck and her team at Columbia (she's now at Stanford) studied the effect of praise on students in a dozen New York schools. Her seminal work- a series of experiments on 400 fifth-graders paints the picture most clearly. More →

intelligence, psychology, selfesteme, smart

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Wednesday December 6th 2006

Intelligent humpbacks are blessed with a whale of a brain 11805

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2474958,00.html

by oblio Wed Dec 6th, 2006 2:32am (from #bor) [score: 211 | approval: 83%]

Intelligent humpbacks are blessed with a whale of a brain

The finding may help to explain some of the behavior seen in whales, such as intricate communication skills, coalition formation, cultural transmission and tool usage. Patrick Hof and Estel Van der Gucht of the Department of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York discovered a type of cell called a spindle neuron in the cortex of humpbacks. More →

intelligence, whale, whales

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Wednesday August 30th 2006

Proof that I am smarter than all of you 9806

http://www.lexpress.mu/display_article_sup.php?news_id=71502

by dh- Tue Aug 29th, 2006 5:57pm (from #bor) [score: 296 | approval: 67%]

While researchers have long shown that tall people earn more than their shorter counterparts, it's not only social discrimination that accounts for this inequality - tall people are just smarter than their height-challenged peers, a new study finds. More →

Where do these giant amazon women come from?!?!?

height, intelligence

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Friday October 14th 2005

Marijuana Compound Spurs Brain Cell Growth 5550

http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/hscout/2005/10/13/hscout528519.html

by tmgltrn Fri Oct 14th, 2005 1:58pm (from #bor) [score: 621 | approval: 0%]

Marijuana Compound Spurs Brain Cell Growth

THURSDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDay News) -- When it comes to the controversy surrounding medical marijuana, an international team of researchers is busy stirring the pot by releasing findings that suggest the drug helps promote brain cell growth while treating mood disorders. More →

brain, intelligence, marijuana, medical marijuana

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