Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Jul 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Kids’ Lower IQ Scores Linked To Prenatal Pollution
Researchers for the first time have linked air pollution exposure before birth with lower IQ scores in childhood, bolstering evidence that smog may harm the developing brain.
Posted in Education Issues and Ideas on Jul 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Parent-Paid Aides Ordered Out of (New York) City Schools
For years, top Manhattan public schools have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from parents to independently hire assistants to help teachers with reading, writing, tying shoelaces or supervising recess. But after a complaint by the city’s powerful teachers union, the Bloomberg administration has ordered an end [...]
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Jul 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Artistic tendencies linked to ’schizophrenia gene’
…the mutation dampens a brain region that reins in mood and behaviour, called the prefrontal cortex. This change could unleash creative potential in some people and psychotic delusions in others.
This is fascinating and an early piece of a larger understanding of both mental illness and creative thought and I predict [...]