Richard Giles

I’ve been saying for years that i believe that it is possible to improve your intelligence. That it’s not determined at birth!

Finally the rest of the world is catching up and agreeing.

Until recently, a person’s IQ – a measure of all kinds of mental problem-solving abilities, including spatial skills, memory and verbal reasoning – was thought to be a fixed commodity largely determined by genetics. But recent hints suggest that a very basic brain function called working memory might underlie our general intelligence, opening up the intriguing possibility that if you improve your working memory, you could boost your IQ too.

More at Boing Boing.