Brain Wave

Shades of Poul Anderson…
 
Reading this article in New Scientist, I flashed on Poul Anderson’s Brain Wave. (Who can explain how memory works?) The article, “11 steps to a better brain,” traces eleven things you can do to increase your mental acuity.
 
Hmmm… doesn’t praise coffee highly enough (or really, at all).  Oh, well, it was a pleasant thought. As a country, however, we could substantially raise the IQ of our society as a whole by throwing out all professors of education and public school administrators.
 
It’d be a start…
 
h.t. to Ed, a correspondent on Jerry Pournelle’s Chaos Manor in Perspective, Current Mail.
 

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