Having discussions with your kids teaches them to become assertive advocates for themselves in school
Brilliant: The Science of Smart
Need to Remember Something? Make It Rhyme
Medical students have long used rhymes and songs to help them master vast quantities of information, and we’ve just gotten fresh evidence of how effective this strategy can be. A young British doctor, Tapas Mukherjee of Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, was distressed by a survey showing that 55% of nurses and doctors at Glenfield were …
Viewpoint: Girls Should Play More Video Games
Playing video games can improve girls’ spatial skills — an important contributor to career success
We Still Need Information Stored in Our Heads Not ‘in the Cloud’
Computer are great for information that won’t change, but a brain is better at connecting facts with other facts and acquiring layers of meaning
8 New Ways of Looking at Intelligence
Our brains can be strengthened (and weakened) in many more ways than we ever thought.
How to Raise a Group’s IQ
The smartest groups are composed of people who are good at reading one another’s social cues
How to Increase Your Stamina to Learn
We can now take classes anywhere, at any time. So why do we so often give up on learning?
Highlighting Is a Waste of Time: The Best and Worst Learning Techniques
Some of the most common strategies for retaining knowledge are the least effective, according to a new report
How to Use Technology to Make You Smarter
What you need to know to get your gadgets to increase, not decrease, your intelligence
Born to Be Bright: Is There a Gene for Learning?
New research has identified genetic markers associated with academic achievement — and failure
Special or Not? Teach Kids To Figure It Out
Children — and adults — are terrible at evaluating their own abilities, a crucial requirement for getting better at anything
Why Floundering Is Good
Trying to figure something out on your own before getting help actually produces better results than having guidance from the beginning
Can You Instill Mental Toughness?
An experimental Army program is trying to train soldiers to be resilient. But what does that mean?