Friday, April 17, 2009

Op-Ed Columnist - How to Raise Our I.Q. - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Columnist - How to Raise Our I.Q. - NYTimes.com

Reporting on “Intelligence and How to Get It” by Richard Nisbett, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan.

Recent data suggest that IQ is less genetically determined than thought by conventional wisdom. Could be possible to develop programs which appear to have significant ability to increase IQ in early childhood.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Openmindedness video

Wolfram|Alpha

Wolfram|Alpha

will be launching in May 2009. I am looking forward to it! Wolfram is a very bright guy, though his multi year frolic into cellular automata seems like it might have been a stretch... kind of like mastering Rubik's cube. Hard, fun, cool but ultimately not all that useful.