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There’s nothing wrong with intelligence tests, says David Shenk. It’s our misinterpretations of their results that foster a dangerous “myth of IQ.”
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“Fail better,” Beckett advised. David Shenk affirms that it’s not just persistence that produces brilliance—it’s persistence at a skill level beyond one’s own.
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Thanks to teaching methods such as the Suzuki school, “child prodigies” are more common than ever, yet most still peak early. How can parents help kids make the most of […]
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The astonishing skills displayed by autistic savants are evidence not of the mystery and rarity of genius, but of the plasticity of the ordinary human mind.
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A conversation with the author of “The Genius in All of Us.”
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Genes and environment don’t determine different quantities of our success (or failure). Instead, they operate together in surprising and complex ways.
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His hope is that by March 2010, a new entity will be charged with looking out for systemic risk in the economy.
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Would Congressman Frank support a piecemeal approach to health care reform? He’s rethinking it all.
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Our blunder came when we killed rental housing programs and tried to help low income people buy homes, says Barney Frank.
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Barney Frank on why he originally opposed tightened regulations for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Barney Frank thinks no federal funds can go to keep institutions in business. His bill, already passed by Congress, seeks to make creditors very, very nervous.
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A conversation with the House Financial Services Committee Chairman.
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The recent Massachusetts victory is just the beginning, says Senator Richard Shelby.
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Alabama Senator Richard Shelby argues that a flat tax would transform us into a nation of savers, not spenders.
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Senator Richard Shelby isn’t so sure we’d be able to reinstitute the separation between commercial and investment banks. He is sure that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be gone.
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Senator Richard Shelby thinks that the Treasury’s handling of TARP sparked the financial panic.
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A conversation with the Senator of Alabama.
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From inauguration to resignation, Eliot Spitzer was one of the most talked-about governors in the country. Two years after his scandal, he sifts the legitimate criticism from the unfair shots […]
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It’s creative thinkers like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs who change the world, says New York’s ex-governor, who is stepping back into public life.
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How his fall from grace has changed the former State Attorney General’s view of criminal wrongdoing, and how he would advise other politicians to avoid his own mistakes.