Good Read: Can You Make Yourself Smarter?

Apr 30, 2012

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Some researchers believe playing a specific kind of game actually builds what they call "fluid intelligence" -- "the capacity to solve novel problems, to learn, to reason, to see connections and to get to the bottom of things."

Source: Nytimes

"Can somebody raise their hand," asked Kate Wulfson, the instructor, "and explain to me how you get points?" On each of the children's monitors, there was a cartoon image of a haunted house, with bats and a crescent moon in a midnight blue sky.

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