Credit crunch has wiped £1m a minute from wealth

Independent - The credit crunch has wiped a total of £600bn – more than £1m a minute – from the UK’s total wealth since it started a year ago, according to accountants PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Their analysis focuses on the impact of lost wealth in housing and the collapsing share values of financial firms, the sectors [...]

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High-Aptitude Minds: The Neurological Roots of Genius

Scientific American - In humans, brain size correlates, albeit somewhat weakly, with intelligence, at least when researchers control for a person’s sex (male brains are bigger) and age (older brains are smaller). Many modern studies have linked a larger brain, as measured by magnetic resonance imaging, to higher intellect, with total brain [...]

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