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  • June 2008

    • Search Engines: How They're Reshaping Your Brain

      Atlantic Monthly  |  Jun 11, 08 10:42 AM CDT

      Search Engines: How They're Reshaping Your Brain

      (Newser) - Although he’s thrilled with all the time he saves using the Internet for research and awed by the vast intellectual opportunities available to every web surfer, Nicholas Carr is a bit disconcerted that he no longer has the patience for reading books or long articles. With his netizen mind fidgeting and losing the thread after a few pages, Carr wonders in the Atlantic : What is the net doing to our brains? More »

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      Internet  • book  • computer  • reading  • artificial intelligence  • human intelligence

  • April 2008

    • Brain Training Can Boost Smarts

      Wired  |  Apr 29, 08 3:13 AM CDT

      Brain Training Can Boost Smarts

      (Newser) - Software claiming to improve intelligence has met with market success in recent years— along with plenty of skepticism—but sales could now get a boost with the discovery that it really is possible to improve general intelligence with mental gymnastics. Researchers had thought so-called "fluid intelligence" was purely genetic, but tests have demonstrated that mental workouts can improve capacity, Wired reports. More »

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      software  • brain  • intelligence  • neuroscience  • human intelligence

  • March 2008

    • 'Petraeus Generation' Is Making Muslim Allies

      Newsweek  |  Mar 17, 08 7:45 PM CDT

      'Petraeus Generation' Is Making Muslim Allies

      (Newser) - US officers in Iraq and Afghanistan are learning to talk first and shoot later—a sea change for CO's trained to win by force, Newsweek reports. But their early gun battles only sparked insurgency and mired them in baffling street battles. Now, says David Petraeus, “You can’t kill your way out of an insurgency." A generation of US officers is absorbing Muslim culture and trying to make allies of insurgent foes to win. More »

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      Iraq war  • Afghanistan  • David Petraeus  • troop surge  • human intelligence

  • December 2007

    • IQ Measures Not Just Brains, But Also Culture

      New Yorker  |  Dec 13, 07 4:55 PM CST

      IQ Measures Not Just Brains, But Also Culture

      (Newser) - The average global IQ is rising three points per decade not because humans are getting smarter, but because culture is getting more challenging—and the measure isn’t just a test of our smarts genes. The quotient effectively tests “the quality of the world [a] person lives in,” the New Yorker ’s Malcolm Gladwell writes, dissolving the myth that intelligence is fixed. More »

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      race  • culture  • human intelligence

    • Scientist Blasted for Racism Has Black Genes

      Independent (UK)  |  Dec 10, 07 7:01 AM CST

      Scientist Blasted for Racism Has Black Genes

      (Newser) - Nobel laureate James Watson, famous for co-discovering DNA and infamous for his theory that black Africans are less intelligent than whites, turns out to have a genetic profile with 16 times as many black genes as the average white European, the Independent reports. Watson's genes are said to be comparable to someone with an African great-grandparent. More »

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      Africa  • race  • DNA  • genes  • James Watson  • human intelligence

  • August 2007

    • CIA Superspy Unmasks After 3 Decades

      Associated Press  |  Aug 8, 07 5:09 PM CDT

      CIA Superspy Unmasks After 3 Decades

      (Newser) - As he prepares for retirement, the CIA's chief spymaster has elected to reveal his true identity, the AP reports. Jose Rodriguez spent more than 30 years undercover, much of the time in Latin America; the Puerto Rico native has headed the agency's clandestine service since 2004. An agency spokesman says Rodriguez's cover was lifted a month ago. More »

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      CIA  • Latin America  • Michael Hayden  • Puerto Rico  • spy  • human intelligence  • Jose Rodriguez  • spycraft

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