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Title: Blue Eyes Linked to Higher IQ
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Published: Jan 26, 2011
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Post Date: 2011-01-26 12:39:24 by Turtle
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Bright blue eyes have long been viewed as a quality that can help to attract the opposite sex. Now research suggests having piercing blue eyes may also say something positive about your level of intelligence. Scientists believe they may have the explanation for why the likes of Stephen Hawking, Alexander Fleming, Marie Curie, and now Lily Cole are such brilliant academics – and it’s all in the eyes. They are also likely to be more strategic thinkers, able to plan their own time enabling them to work more effectively. In return, those with brown eyes are likelier to be faster at running enabling them to be more likely to succeed in sports such as football, hockey and rugby. The study, carried out by scientists at the University of Louisville, in Kentucky, could explain why so many academic geniuses have blue eyes. Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s most eminent physicists and author of A Brief History of Time, has bright blue eyes as did Alexander Fleming, the biologist who discovered penicillin, and Marie Curie, who was twice given a Nobel prize for her pioneering work in radioactivity. Lily Cole, the catwalk model whose features are dominated by her piercing blue eyes, recently secured a place at Kings College, Cambridge to read social and political sciences having gained five As at A level. Another prominent blue-eyed mastermind is Stephen Fry, the author, actor and TV presenter, who gained a scholarship to Cambridge University. The research may also explain why many of our top sportsmen such as John Terry, the England football captain, and Jonny Wilkinson, the former England rugby captain, are brown-eyed. The scientists say that there is no logical explanation for the link between eye colour and academic achievement, but it is an unexplored area of research.
Poster Comment: Turtle of course has bright blue eyes.
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#1. To: Turtle (#0)
Uh ... what color were the eyes of the greatest inventor in modern history? Do YOU know who that was? U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
Which defies all logic when one considers just how full of crap Turtle is. LOL
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
Do you really think I'm so stupid I don't that is? BTW, it's a matter of debate who the "greatest" genius was. Overall, it might have been Isaac Newton.
"If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable." - Thomas Jefferson
You just envy Turtle because for one thing, I'm a foot taller than you!
"If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable." - Thomas Jefferson
Newton takes the nod among his peers, past and present.
No one possessing articulative skills such as those displayed above should be considered stupid. Obviously the man's brain works too fast for even his fingers to keep up. ; )
Smarter than Tesla.
"If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable." - Thomas Jefferson
Lets put it this way. Newton had a sound mind, Tesla had a brilliant but troubled mind.
Is da Vinci too old to be considered modern?
Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing its idiot.
Newton has his near breakdown too.....both were loners, both were workaholics, both were called crazy in their own time for refusal to conform to ideas held by most other people. There is often a fine line between genius and madness.
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
Turtle is smart and totally sound. And cute, too.
"If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable." - Thomas Jefferson
More modern than Aristotle, and he invented logic!
"If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable." - Thomas Jefferson
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
I cross it now and then. And yes, I have blue eyes.
#2. To: Turtle (#0)
Turtle of course has bright blue eyes.
#3. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#1)
#4. To: abraxas (#2)
Which defies all logic when one considers just how full of crap Turtle is. LOL
#5. To: Turtle (#3)
Overall, it might have been Isaac Newton.
#6. To: Turtle (#3)
Do you really think I'm so stupid I don't that is?
#7. To: Cynicom (#5)
Newton takes the nod among his peers, past and present.
#8. To: Turtle (#7)
Smarter than Tesla.
#9. To: Cynicom, Turtle, 4 (#8)
#10. To: Cynicom (#8)
Newton had a sound mind, Tesla had a brilliant but troubled mind.
#11. To: abraxas (#10)
There is often a fine line between genius and madness.
#12. To: Lod (#9)
Is da Vinci too old to be considered modern?
#13. To: abraxas, Turtle, Cynicom (#2)
#14. To: abraxas (#10)
There is often a fine line between genius and madness.
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#15. To: Critter (#14)
I find that a little vague.
There is often a fine line between genius and madness
#16. To: Turtle (#0)
What a load of bunk. Iowa schoolteacher Jane Elliott divided her class of third graders into a blue-eyed group and a brown-eyed group. Then informed one and then the other that they were inferior. If you're wondering, I have pale blue-green eyes.
Almost immediately the latter performed worse on tests. When they were told they were superior, they did much better.
She had displayed to her all-white class what Claude Steele, a professor of social psychology at Stanford University, has proved more scientifically. That the observable difference in exam scores between white and black students is due in large part not to genetic difference, but to "stereotype threat". People who feel stereotyped, who have been stereotyped all their lives, act according to that stereotype, often despite themselves.
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