intelligence

Girls tend to have more advanced language skills than boys, the researchers state.

These books will help you ideate more creatively.

Mirror neurons bounce smiles from one person to the next.

They experience reality differently than we do.

Eric Weinstein explains why choosing a nemesis is both energizing and necessary for success.

Meditation doesn’t just reduce stress or make you a more spiritual person; it changes your brain in a variety of ways that can make it easier to learn new information.

Research suggests that you should adopt an ancient rhetorical method called ‘illeism’.

We like to think of creativity as an inherently good thing. History and science say otherwise.

Want to learn better? Here’s a lesson from cognitive psychology.

In David Epstein’s ‘Range’, dabblers and dillettantes are ascendant.

Richard Lyon’s visionary plan for the future of innovation at Berkeley.

Want to be smarter than you were yesterday? Learn to have better conversations using these 3 design principles.

If AIs can generate photos of people who don’t exist, what else can they imagine?

There are a few different theories out there, but the parieto-frontal integration theory, or P-FIT, appears to give us the best model of the neuroscience of intelligence.

The downsides of drug abuse are so clear that one would imagine smarter folks would stay away from them. The research suggests otherwise.

A comprehensive interdisciplinary paper removes any doubt that orcas don’t belong in marine parks and zoos.

The remarkable distributed nervous system of the octopus is discussed at an astrobiology conference.

Not only do these monkeys use tools, they’re developing new, better tools to adapt to their environment.

Jonathan Zimmerman explains why teachers should invite, not censor, tough classroom debates.

You can be born with good genes and study hard and still not meet your potential. Your environment has a lot to do with how smart you are.

The Flynn effect shows people have gotten smarter, but some research claims those IQ gains are regressing. Can both be right?

How do you know you are real? A classic paper by philosopher Nick Bostrom argues you are likely a simulation.

Think adrenaline leaves you unable to think clearly? Think again.

The tactics that work now won’t work for long.

300 years of industrialization have boosted our IQ scores in one very specific way.

Their noses can count?

When should you censor yourself, and when should you speak up? Emily Chamlee-Wright explains moral philosopher Adam Smith’s ‘impartial spectator’.

Rote memorization doesn’t cut it for theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. Here’s why.

A sobering look at the prospects for kids not wealthy enough to fail upward.

A new study discovered that lack of purpose leads to earlier death.