Smart Guys

I'm really glad there are people who volunteer to get the headaches that come from thinking this stuff through.

My head thanks you for your service, guys.

Smarterness

And then they found that every decade we were getting a few IQ points smarter.

Yes - that's a little fishy, especially so when we find out that after a while, IQ scores plateaued, and then started going down a bit.

So, what the fuck is up with this shit?

Adam Conover debunks the IQ Test, and Dr Rina Bliss pushes us to rejigger our perceptions of "intelligence".

Our general environment - air and water quality, stress, food and housing security, and a host of other factors - has a considerable impact on our overall intelligence genome, and the changes we experience in our own genetic makeup are passed along to our children, who of course then pass them along to their children.

The dumbing down of America is not just about reality TV and information siloes.

Epigenetics is the study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work. Unlike genetic changes, epigenetic changes are reversible and do not change your DNA sequence, but they can change how your body reads a DNA sequence.

"Seize the learning moment."

“Neuroplasticity” refers to your brain’s ability to restructure or rewire itself when it recognizes the need for adaption. In other words, it can continue developing and changing throughout life.

1. Play video games
2. Travel
3. Make music
4. Learn a new language
5. Do some artsy stuff
6. Exercise

Today's Welfare Cheat

Chris Hayes may be the smartest guy on the TV box right now.

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