Magazine Wrap-Up

New Yorker - 12/17/07

The Flynn Effect - "If an American born in the 1930s has an I.Q. of 100, the Flynn Effect says that his children will have I.Q.s of 108, and his grandchildren I.Q.s of close to 120 - more than a standard deviation higher. If we work in the opposite direction, the typical teen-ager of today, with an I.Q. of 100, would have grandparents with average I.Q.s of 82...And if we go back even farther, the Flynn Effect puts the average I.Q.s of the schoolchildren of 1900 at around 70, which is to suggest, bizarrely, that a century ago the US was populated largely by people who today would be considered mentally retarded." --Interesting

Wired - December 2007

More information on the Burj Dubai...still rising by a floor every 3 days to a top secret of at least 2,500 feet more than double the size of the Empire State Building...Yikes that is big!

Rolling Stone - Late December

Interesting article on Cormac McCarthy and his association with the Santa Fe Institute (never read McCarthy seems a bit dark kind of like a serious Stephen King). Back in college I actually collected two books that the Santa Fe Institute had put together on biology and computer stuff. Fascinating stuff...Anyway to my surprise the Institute is still kicking. Anyway just somethings to make you go ahhhh...

"Does anyone know another animal besides humans who commit suicide?" - Answer: Dolphins.

Oohhh another Lisa Randall reference in Rolling Stone magazine...the second in about a month...who would of thunk that a theoretical physicist would get so much play in a rock and roll magazine.