SUPERMODEL SENSATION Following her runaway success as supermodel, her infamous debut as a novelist and her decision to make an album, Naomi Campbell, it seems, can turn her hand to anything… by James Collard
SUPERMODEL SENSATION Following her runaway success as supermodel, her infamous debut as a novelist and her decision to make an album, Naomi Campbell, it seems, can turn her hand to anything… by James Collard
Following her runaway success as supermodel, her infamous debut as a novelist and her decision to make an album, Naomi Campbell, it seems, can turn her hand to anything… by James Collard
THE MIND MACHINE?
Although intelligence has been studied, and the brain has been studied, there is little understanding of how the brain works to produce intelligence. This has something to do with the fact that the brain contains around 100 billion cells (about the number of stars in the Milky Way).
Оne of the continuing myths about the relationship between intelligence and the brain is that the brains of very clever people are, somehow physically different from those of ordinary people. At the beginning of the century an American scientist called
E A Spitzka produced a list of the weights of the brains of important, well-known men.
The heaviest brain on the list was that of Turgenev, the Russian novelist, at 2000g.
However, the brain of another great genius, Walt Whitman, weighed only 1282g.
There are no significant differences between the intelligence levels of males and females. However, girls under seven score a little higher than boys in IQ tests and the highest IQ recorded is that of Marylin vos'Savant at 230. However, men and women do differ in the way they think. Generally, women are more skilled verbally and men do better on