Nicole Barr's Mensa IQ Score of 162: What It Really Means
First published September 29, 2022. In August 2015, Nicole Barr, a 12-year-old pupil from Harlow in Essex, England, scored 162 on a superv...
Learning, Memory & Human Intelligence
People learn, remember and solve problems in many different ways. Explore stories about those abilities and the ideas used to describe them. A test score or a clever puzzle can be interesting without defining a whole person, and claims about intelligence deserve a close look at what was actually measured.
Adhara Pérez Sánchez: The Mexican Prodigy With a Reported 162 IQ
Originally published 2022-09-27. Adhara Pérez Sánchez is a Mexican girl, born in 2011, who was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at a...
Jonny Kim: Navy SEAL, Harvard Doctor and NASA Astronaut
First published January 3, 2022. Jonny Kim is a former US Navy SEAL who became a Harvard-trained doctor, a naval aviator and a NASA astron...
How Long Does It Take to Learn a Language? The FSI Estimates
Originally published 2021-01-26. How long does it take an English speaker to learn another language? The most widely quoted answer comes f...
Goleman's Four Domains of Emotional Intelligence, Explained
Originally published 2020-08-25. Daniel Goleman's model of emotional intelligence groups the skill into four areas: self-awareness , s...
7 Traits of Deep Thinkers and What Psychology Says About Them
A deep thinker is someone who enjoys turning ideas over slowly, looking for causes, connections and meaning instead of settling for the fir...
Are You a Free Thinker? 4 Traits of Independent, Radical Minds
A free thinker is someone who forms opinions from evidence and reasoning rather than simply accepting what authority, tradition or the loud...
Emotional Intelligence vs Mental Strength: What's the Difference?
Originally published 2020-05-15. Emotional intelligence is the ability to notice, understand and manage emotions, both your own and other ...
10 Books You Have to Read, From Animal Farm to Momo
If you want a short list of novels that are easy to start, hard to forget and still talked about decades later, these ten are a good place ...
The Key to Happiness According to Epictetus, Epicurus and Aristotle
Ask three great Greek thinkers what makes a life happy and you get three different answers. Epictetus , the Stoic, said happiness depends o...
Bruce Lee Quotes: 33 Sayings on Mastery, Water and Self-Knowledge
Bruce Lee’s best-known sayings boil down to a few ideas: stay flexible like water, keep what works and drop what does not, know yourself th...
Ten Popular Claims About the Human Brain
In this article Separate estimates from settled measurements 1) For our mind, there's no difference between reality and imagination. 2) ...
Lao Tzu Quotes: 33 Sayings and Which Are Really His
Laozi, also written Lao Tzu, is the sage traditionally credited with the Tao Te Ching, the short classic at the heart of Taoist thought. Hi...
Microsoft Japan's 2019 Four-Day Week Trial and Its 40% Result
Originally published 2020-05-12. In August 2019, Microsoft Japan closed its offices every Friday and gave its roughly 2,300 full-time empl...
30 Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes and Where They Come From
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) was a Baptist minister and the best-known leader of the American civil rights movement. His words are qu...
Bob Marley Quotes: The Lyrics He Sang and Lines He Never Said
The best Bob Marley quotes are mostly his own song lyrics: lines about music, freedom, faith and love that he wrote and sang between the ea...
29 Thought-Provoking Picture Quotes by Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short-sto...
8 Hobbies That Can Boost Your Brainpower, and What Research Shows
Yes, some hobbies can make you mentally sharper, but not in the way internet lists often promise. No pastime will turn an average person in...
5 Signs You Are a Sapiosexual, and What the Research Says
A sapiosexual is someone who finds intelligence the most attractive quality in another person, often more than looks. Typical signs are fee...
24 Socrates Quotes: Which Are Really His and Which Are Not
Socrates never wrote a single line. Everything we think we know about his words comes from people who knew him, chiefly his students Plato ...
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First published March 14, 2017. Thyme cannot cure strep throat, herpes, a yeast infection or the flu. That is the honest answer to a claim ...
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Originally published 2017-12-02. "If you love her, don't destroy her" is the title of a widely shared 2017 letter by the Leb... -
If you want a home workout that needs no equipment, five moves cover almost the whole body: the plank, the squat, the bird-dog, the glute b... -
Originally published 2017-02-09. Letting go means deciding to stop carrying something that drains you: an expectation, a grudge, a habit o... -
Originally published 2020-04-27. "Weightless" is an eight-minute ambient track by the Manchester band Marconi Union , written wi... -
In early 2018 a young Thai woman named Atittaya Chumkeaw drew attention online for something simple: she kept posting happy photos with her...