Archive for the ‘Medicine’ Category
Apparent reduced risk of Parkinson’s Disease among Tobacco Smokers.
Yes, that is right, according to a group of eminent medical researchers, the more you smoke the less likely you are to get Parkinson’s disease.
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First born children are the most intelligent.
Norwegian scientists Petter Kristensen and Tor Bjerkedal in a paper published in Science entitled “Explaining the Relation between Birth Order and Intelligence”, argue that children raised as the first born are the most intelligent.
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Children achieve close to adult cognitive ability before adolescence, NIH Study Says
A recently published paper by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, argues that in the development of a healthy human brain, most of the cognative ability is developed by the age of 11 or 12.
Are you a Genius?
On a lighter note an interesting website that tries to analyze the I.Q. of various historic figures.
The methodology is dubious, but go have a look and decide for yourself, do you agree with their results.
Are you an Owl or a Lark? It might affect your verbal intelligence…
U.S. Army Doctors find that morningness-eveningness correlates with verbal ability in women but not men.