The Intellectual Pinnacle

Or at least what the majority thinks…
More than a month ago, I wrote of my participation in a Foreign Policy survey regarding the world’s top intellectuals of this age. Upon checking FP last week again, the results were in and 2 of those I voted made it, (Chomsky and Gore.) Yup the pretty obvious ones [...]

Intellectual Influences

I encountered this post at Inquirer Current this week. It links to Foreign Policy’s survey of the Top 100 Public Intellectuals (subject to a simple criteria really) among its readers so out of interest, I participated.
One is allowed to choose 5 intellectuals so I opted for:

Lee Kuan Yew – The first PM of Singapore and [...]

Liberals vs. Conservatives: The Neurologists’ Take

I have a pint of attention for neurological study results not only because I’m such an information junkie but also because the subjects placed under study here are oftentimes trivially interesting. A year or two ago for example, I encountered a curious finding on how the sarcastic’s brain functions.
So when early this week this PDI [...]

How Nerd Are You II

It might be a little OC on my part but I needed to know how much a new laptop and inkjet printer would affect my Nerd score a long time ago. Instinctively it should go up but by how much, I just found the time to find out yesterday.
It was 34 previously but after a [...]

Sugar and Toys: An Educational Perspective

A month after the commencement of the 2007-08 school year in the Philippines, the same ol’ hindrances to child learning can be heard: lack of classrooms and facilities, low wages for public school teachers which compel a lot of them to seek greener pasteurs elsewhere, the great number of children starting elementary but not even [...]

What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have?

Paying a visit to other blogs sure pays off in one way or another. At least in this case, it gets me a help at squeezing into this blog much-needed breaks from all those serious stuff I’m want to writing about, (well it still does have something to do with intelligence but what can I [...]