Audrey Dussutour is speaking about the blob: Blobs on the Mind Lots of other people are speaking about the blob, too—about the blob and intelligence. The blob is also known as “slime mold.” Intelligence is known to make people curious. Lots of this talking was inspired by the work of Toshiyuki Nakagaki and his colleagues, […]
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Professor(?) Richard Lynn – a profile
Those who have been watching the scholarly career of Richard Lynn, Professor Emeritus, at the University of Ulster [Note: See item 2 below], there are two recently published items which might be of interest. The first, [1], is a new paper published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, November 2018, Pages 275-277 (written along […]
Brain size in birds and their deaths in traffic accidents? (new study)
If a species of bird has a relatively small brain [compared to other avian species] is it likely to be less intelligent ? And, if so, might it be more likely to be involved in a traffic accident? A team from Ecologie Systématique Evolution, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, France and the House of […]
Do a person’s genes predict how high they will go in school? — The 3.2% solution
Scholars have wondered whether (and in some cases, assumed that) success in schools comes largely from the good genes a person inherits. A new study of scholars and their genes provides evidence that YES, IT DOES, sort of, a little bit, maybe. The study is powerful — its authors tell us exactly how powerful. The study is “Genome-wide association study […]
