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The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
His journey was guided by his extraordinary intelligence, his parents, his teachers at the Ethical Culture School,
Martin J. Sherwin • American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
The text involved two sub-topics: measurement of intelligence, and structure of intelligence.
Fiona McPherson • Mnemonics for study (2nd ed.) (Study Skills)
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Malcolm Hopper. He's brilliant. A scientist? A scientist. Jehovah's Witness. He was probably one of the German scientists brought here from Germany after World War II. One of the rocket scientists. Not a Nazi but being pressured by them and being freed really to come here. And he developed the turbo jet and the government used it on war planes
... See moreWe can hold a maximum of seven things in our head at the same time, plus/minus two (Miller 1956).
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
In contrast to the deactivation of Broca’s area, another region, Brodmann’s area 19, lit up in our participants. This is a region in the visual cortex that registers images when they first enter the brain.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
craniometry, the study and measurement of human skulls as a means of assessing intelligence.
J. Courtney Sullivan • The Cliffs: Reese's Book Club: A novel
Scientists measure the depth of someone’s depression using something named the Hamilton scale, which was invented by a scientist named Max Hamilton in 1959. The Hamilton scale ranges from 0 (where you’re skipping along merrily) to 51 (where you’re jumping in front of trains). To give you a yardstick: you can get a six-point leap in your Hamilton
... See moreJohann Hari • Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
Harvard Medical School was and is at the forefront of the neuroscience revolution,