Word: iq
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...part this is because, over the past couple of decades, Americans have turned inward as film-culture consumers. For fun they watch the big Hollywood movies; for edification they go, in much smaller numbers, to the American indies, which have replaced foreign films as the higher-IQ supplement. Another reason is, frankly, that the foreign stuff isn't as exciting as it once was. The preferred art-film mode is dour minimalism, in which glum folks surrender to cosmic torpor in front of a static camera. Even as the pulse of world entertainment, from pop movies to video games...
...heart, opened to $102 million at the domestic box office last weekend. Now comes Speed Racer, based on the '60s Japanese animated TV series, Mach GoGoGo. It's the new sound-and-light show from brothers Larry and Andy Wachowski, who in 1999 stamped the template for high-IQ effects entertainment with The Matrix. I don't think it'll do half of Iron Man's first-weekend business, but it's certainly got twice the visual dazzlement of that very handsome Marvel Comics movie...
Psychiatrists led by Guy Potter at Duke University conducted a study of more than 1,000 male twins, most of whom were World War II veterans. Potter collected 50-year-old data on the vets' IQ scores when they joined the Army, and then compared them to cognitive test scores the men generated after they retired from various jobs. He found that those who scored in the bottom quartile of the IQ scale when they were in their 20s, and then took on mentally challenging jobs, had the greatest gains on the cognitive tests in their 70s. "Being...
Since Potter could use the IQ scores from early in life as a baseline, he showed that regardless of how much intellectual ability a person starts out with, a mentally demanding job can keep his brain healthy well into retirement. In fact, the gains for people who have high IQs are relatively small, leading Potter to speculate that having a complex job, "may make up for a lack of advantage early in life, whether they be socioeconomic or otherwise." he says. So depending on what you do for a living, that daily grind may actually be the ultimate brain booster...
...birth defect - an enzyme deficiency - causes severe mental retardation, epilepsy and disfigurement of features. "The retardation is in the severe range - an IQ around 25," Dr. Tarby says. Afflicted children are missing portions of their brain, often cannot sit or stand, and suffer grand mal seizures and encephalitis. Language skills are nonexistent or minimal. "I remember one little girl has a fascination with coins and the only word she could say was 'money,'" the doctor said. Families whose children are affected often avail themselves of state-funded medical care, consistent with the FLDS philosophy of seeking government aid - despite their...