This week’s Cogno-Intellectual Debate Topic: Viagra is the universal cure-all of our time. It is our ipecac. Please discuss. Or not. For background, see the article in Quartz that includes this passage: Period pain can be “almost as bad as a heart attack.” Why aren’t we researching how to treat it? … Legro’s experience is instructive. Thanks […]
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Do a person’s genes predict how high they will go in school? — The 3.2% solution
Scholars have wondered whether (and in some cases, assumed that) success in schools comes largely from the good genes a person inherits. A new study of scholars and their genes provides evidence that YES, IT DOES, sort of, a little bit, maybe. The study is powerful — its authors tell us exactly how powerful. The study is “Genome-wide association study […]