Found on PubMed, site of the U.S. National Library of Medicine / National Institutes of Health Work preferences, life values, and personal views of top math/science graduate students and the profoundly gifted: Developmental changes and gender differences during emerging adulthood […]
An issue in Science Daily dated March 12, 2011, did somehow surprise me… It is called “Could Giftedness Be Linked to Prenatal Exposure of Higher Levels of Hormones?“ The article relates the findings of a researcher at the University of […]
Today is in France Procrastination Day ! It is reported in our national Newspaper “Le Monde“. Procrastination ? feeling guilty by putting off later what you could do now. A gifted one is a specialist in this discipline in which […]
This is what some electronic games promise. A very recent article in Scientific American (by Andrea Kuszewski) says it doesn’t work and recommands in the contrary to just do some efforts. As an epigraph a quote from Einstein (Albert) : […]
Found in the novel “Globalia” by Jean-Christophe Ruffin (p34) : “Gifted, ie, unnecessarily blessed“. Globalia is a world which could be compared to A. Huxley’s “Brave New World“. Everyone is permanently young and happy, everything is clean and sanitized… even […]
This the title of a novel written by Lenteric. It’s now on my « to read list » and will soon be in movie theaters . Skipping critics about the movie to come I just recall the following : once again gifted cannot […]
As I was designing this blog, I had promissed myself to say my fit of anger regarding a study published in 2005 by our French national medicine research institute (INSERM). « Infants and teenagers with troubled behaviour » / « Trouble des conduites […]
An article in a french newspaper (“Le Figaro”) highlights the increasing sensitivity of companies to good spelling. A spelling evaluation software is now on sale for them. I’ve always been excellent at good spelling (at least in french). And as […]