Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked."Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat."I don't know," Alice answered."Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
"So long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation. "Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."
"All right," said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone. "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin," thought Alice; "but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!"
- Name: beepbeepitsme
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I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe. Like Arthur Dent from "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy", if you do not have a Babel Fish in your ear this blog will be completely unintelligible to you and will read something like this: "boggle, google, snoggle, slurp, slurp, dingleberry to the power of 10". Fortunately, those who have had the Babel Fish inserted in their ear, will understood this blog perfectly. If you are familiar with this technology, you will know that the Babel Fish lives on brainwave radiation. It excretes energy in the form of exactly the correct brainwaves needed by its host to understand what was just said; or in this case, what was read. The Babel Fish, thanks to scientific research, reverses the problem defined by its namesake in the Tower of Babel, where a deity was supposedly inspired to confuse the human race by making them unable to understand each other.
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Richard LynnA new European league of IQ scores has ranked the British in eighth place, well above the French, who are 19th. According to Richard Lynn of the University of Ulster, Britons have an average IQ of 100. The French scored 94.
Top of the table were the Germans, with an IQ of 107. The Brits were also beaten by the Dutch, Poles, Swedes, Italians, Austrians and Swiss.
Professor Lynn, who caused controversy last year by claiming that men were more intelligent than women by about five IQ points on average, said that populations in the colder, more challenging environments of northern Europe had developed larger brains than those in warmer climates in the south. The average brain size in northern and central Europe is 1320cc and in southeast Europe it is 1312cc.
"The early human beings in northerly areas had to survive during cold winters when there were no plant foods and they were forced to hunt big game," he said.
"The main environmental influence on IQ is diet, and people in southeast Europe would have had less of the proteins, minerals and vitamins provided by meat that are essential for brain development."
Aaaahhh. I knew there was a good reason for being a carnivore. Not too sure it has done me an incredible amount of good though. Perhaps my living in a hot climate has negated my carnivorous inclinations and my IQ score reflects this? I think there is another book in the offering for Dr. Lynn involving the study of northern european carnivores who migrated to hot climates (Australia), and the resultant effect, if any, upon their descendants' IQs. LINKS:~
- To Britain's relief, the French are dumber
- Richard Lynn
- IQ and the Wealth of Nations
- Germans are brainiest (but at least we're smarter than the French)
- What's missing in this pile of food? Meat, and without it children are damaged, say scientists
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Hi Beep Beep. I thought I'd invite you to join the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy.
http://vastleftwingconspiracy.net there's a submit button at the top, and your blog entries would appear on that site as well.
-Saskboy, a fellow Green Blogger
Thanks green blogger :)
Hmmm, there could be some truth in it. After all, the USA is considered to have a warm environment and I wouldn't call them particulary bright (Bush is a prime example). Saying that, I live in the UK and I'm not very bright, so there goes that theory.. hehe
Gee, I dunno cod, you seem pretty bright to me ;)
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