Tweeting Graz #IQ2014
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]long with blogging, news releases and other communications, Twitter is now a significant component for sharing and bringing attention to new discoveries.
The hashtag for ISIR 2014 in Graz will be #IQ2014
Feel free to append this to tweets about your preparations for the conference, and live events.
If you're new to twitter, why not grab an account and make some new friends: You'll be surprised who's on board.
Here's a handy guide to tweeting for conferences
Consensus emerging: Intelligence is central to cognition, and critical to our future
First, Jon Wai's finding the next Einstein blog hosts an interview with ISIR Founder, and Lifetime achievement award winner, Douglas Detterman noting just how very important the ability of people is to our past, present, and, most importantly, to our future.
And in the same week, an (open) paper in Molecular Psychiatry (pdf here) showing that IQ research needs to be treated as a core component of cognition research: This highlights 5 fascinating knowns, and open doors for understanding what is currently unknown: how genes build brighter brains.
Both make great ...
Art Jensen's Archives… Now (mostly) online!!
The Arthur Jensen archives are now online or searchable.
In total, some 37 boxes of documents of correspondence, data!, professional materials and personal materials are available.
Digital material is online, and other material can be searched and located.
Impact factor up!
The 2013 impact data just came out for Intelligence (the society's journal).
Articles were cited 2752 times, giving an Impact Factor of 3.162.
Congratulations to our authors, reviewers, and to editor Professor Douglas Detterman!
What is life like with IQ 70, or 170?
Author Daniel Keyes passed away in June of 2014. If you've not seen it, you may enjoy the movie of his book "Flowers for Algernon
The Oscar winning movie "Charly" follows Cliff Robertson through the scientific and human drama of an experimental treatment shifting his IQ from around 70 to over 170...
