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Insecurity at the Borderline
The Huffington Post: Republican Senator Thad Cochran, who has represented Mississippi since 1978, this week used a clever psychological strategy to fend off a primary challenge from the right wing of the party. “The Tea
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Advancing the Science of Imagination: Toward an “Imagination Quotient”
Award amounts up to $200,000. The Imagination Institute announces an international grants competition for research and intervention projects on the measurement and improvement of imagination. Deadline: September 30, 2014 For more information go to: imagination-institute.org
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Researchers: Nothing Special About Einstein’s Brain
NPR: SCOTT SIMON: Albert Einstein had an enviable mind. So much, in fact, that when he died in Princeton’s hospital, the pathologist on-call stole his brain. Dr. Einstein had asked for his brain to be
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The Wrong Way to Treat Child Geniuses
The Wall Street Journal: When I was a child, I was a “genius”—the kind you sometimes see profiled on the local news. I started reading at 2. I could multiply two-digit numbers in my head
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Gauging the Intelligence of Infants
The New York Times: This occasional column explores topics covered in Science Times 25 years ago to see what has changed — and what has not. The claim about babies was startling: A test administered
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So You Think You’re Smarter Than A CIA Agent
NPR: The morning I met Elaine Rich, she was sitting at the kitchen table of her small town home in suburban Maryland trying to estimate refugee flows in Syria. It wasn’t the only question she
