Are we getting more stupid? Researchers claim our intelligence is diminishing as we no longer need it to survive

Our intelligence and behaviour requires optimal functioning of a large number of genes, which requires enormous evolutionary pressures to maintain.

Now, in a provocative theory, a team from Stanford University claim we are losing our intellectual and emotional capabilities because the intricate web of genes which endows us with our brain power is particularly vulnerable to mutations – and these mutations are not being selected against our modern society because we [...]

There is nothing Greece can do on its own to improve its situation

Something like a ping-pong has developed between Prof. Yanis Varoufakis and myself (in his blog) where he argues that there is nothing which Greece can do on its own until the EZ-structure is changed and I invariably respond that there are a lot of things which Greece could/should do on its own while others should worry about the EZ-structure.

Prof. Varoufakis’ latest blogpost focuses on the very hypothetical question whether Germany would be [...]

FBI nabs five mastermind geniuses after teaching them how to blow up a bridge in Cleveland

Mike Adams
Natural News
Thursday, May 3, 2012

I feel safer already. After recruiting five of the dumbest crack heads in the city of Cleveland, Ohio and convincing them to “blow up a bridge”, the FBI halted the operation just in time — a move that wasn’t too difficult considering the FBI plotted the whole thing to begin with.

And thanks to the FBI, we have all been saved from the masterminds of evil [...]

How talking to yourself can IMPROVE your mind

It’s meant to be the first sign that you’re losing your mind, but new research has found that talking to yourself can actually boost brain power. 

Specifically, vocalising the hunt for an object can help you find it quicker, according to the small study published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 

The team of researchers were led by Gary Lupyan, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, [...]

How clever are you? Count how many friends you have and that will tell you the answer

People with bigger brains have more friends, scientists say.

Keeping up friendships takes brain power, research found, and people with real friends – as opposed to pals on social network sites – have to employ more cognitive skills to understand what someone is thinking.

Researchers have found a link between the number of friends people have and the size of their orbital prefrontal cortex – a region of the brain found just [...]

“Either I’d go in and take the oil or I don’t go in at all,” Trump said. “We can’t be the policeman for the world.”

From HuffPost:

WASHINGTON — With gas prices rising above $3.50 a gallon in all but one state, Americans are getting hit hard at the pump. But billionaire and presidential aspirant Donald Trump thinks he has the solution: Simply tell OPEC to cut prices.

Trump blamed gas costs on the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), a conglomerate of developing nations responsible for40 percent of global oil supplies. He said on CNN’s “State of [...]