Interesting facts about your brain and intelligence
* Your brain has about 100 billion neurons. A typical brain cell has from 1,000 to 10,000 connections to other brain cells.
* Studies have shown that children who are breast fed display IQ's up to 10 points higher by the age of three.
* The right side of your brain controls the left side of your body, and the left side of your brain controls the right side of your body.
* Your brain weight accounts for about 2 percent of your body weight. But your brain uses 20 percent of your body's oxygen supply and 20 to 30 percent of your body's energy.
* When you are born, your brain weighs about a pound. But by age 6, it weighs three pounds. What happens? Learning to stand, talk, and walk creates a web of connections in your head—two pounds worth!
* Your brain is full of nerve cells, but it has no pain receptors. Doctors can operate on your brain while you're awake and you won't feel a thing.
* In 1984 the political scientist James Flynn reported that Americans had gained about 13.8 IQ points in 46 years. If people taking an IQ test today were scored in the same way as people 50 years ago then 90% of them would be classified in the genius level.
* A message for action travels from your brain to your muscles as fast as 250 miles per hour.
* Studies show that IQ is modestly related to the speed at which you do some pretty simple things such as comparing two lines to see which is longer.
* An analysis of 1 million students in a New York school district showed that school cafeteria food affected IQ scores to an astonishing degree. When preservatives, coloring, dyes and artificial flavors were removed from the cafeteria menu researchers found that 70,000 students performed two or more IQ grade levels higher than before.
* Even though there are huge differences in weekly earnings between people of various educations levels there are also great discrepancies between people with comparable schooling and higher intellectual capabilities.
* IQ is not influenced by family size or birth order. There is some confusion on this matter due to the fact that smart families usually have few children. However there is absolutely no evidence to suggest that you will have a low IQ if you belong to a large family. There is also no evidence that the first born child will be more intelligent than the rest.
* Modern neuroimaging techniques show that to some degree brain size is correlated to IQ.
* IQ has been shown to increase with more schooling, better educated parents and better toys.
* A higher IQ employee will be more productive than a lower IQ employee even after years on the same job.
Some famous IQ's
Leonardo Da Vinci Artist, Inventor 220 IQ
Voltaire Writer 190 IQ
Garry Kasparov Chess grandmaster 190 IQ
Galileo Galilei Physicist/Astronomer 185 IQ
Descartes Philosopher/Mathematician 180 IQ
Immanuel Kant Philosopher 175 IQ
Plato Philosopher 170 IQ
Charles Darwin Naturalist 165 IQ
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer 165 IQ
Albert Einstein Physicist 160 IQ
Bill Gates 160 IQ
Nicolaus Copernicus Cleric/Astronomer 160 IQ
Rembrandt van Rijn Painter/Etcher 155 IQ
Abraham Lincoln President 150 IQ
Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor 145 IQ
Richard Nixon President 143 IQ
Hillary Clinton Senator 140 IQ
Madonna Singer 140 IQ
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* Your brain has about 100 billion neurons. A typical brain cell has from 1,000 to 10,000 connections to other brain cells.
* Studies have shown that children who are breast fed display IQ's up to 10 points higher by the age of three.
* The right side of your brain controls the left side of your body, and the left side of your brain controls the right side of your body.
* Your brain weight accounts for about 2 percent of your body weight. But your brain uses 20 percent of your body's oxygen supply and 20 to 30 percent of your body's energy.
* When you are born, your brain weighs about a pound. But by age 6, it weighs three pounds. What happens? Learning to stand, talk, and walk creates a web of connections in your head—two pounds worth!
* Your brain is full of nerve cells, but it has no pain receptors. Doctors can operate on your brain while you're awake and you won't feel a thing.
* In 1984 the political scientist James Flynn reported that Americans had gained about 13.8 IQ points in 46 years. If people taking an IQ test today were scored in the same way as people 50 years ago then 90% of them would be classified in the genius level.
* A message for action travels from your brain to your muscles as fast as 250 miles per hour.
* Studies show that IQ is modestly related to the speed at which you do some pretty simple things such as comparing two lines to see which is longer.
* An analysis of 1 million students in a New York school district showed that school cafeteria food affected IQ scores to an astonishing degree. When preservatives, coloring, dyes and artificial flavors were removed from the cafeteria menu researchers found that 70,000 students performed two or more IQ grade levels higher than before.
* Even though there are huge differences in weekly earnings between people of various educations levels there are also great discrepancies between people with comparable schooling and higher intellectual capabilities.
* IQ is not influenced by family size or birth order. There is some confusion on this matter due to the fact that smart families usually have few children. However there is absolutely no evidence to suggest that you will have a low IQ if you belong to a large family. There is also no evidence that the first born child will be more intelligent than the rest.
* Modern neuroimaging techniques show that to some degree brain size is correlated to IQ.
* IQ has been shown to increase with more schooling, better educated parents and better toys.
* A higher IQ employee will be more productive than a lower IQ employee even after years on the same job.
Some famous IQ's
Leonardo Da Vinci Artist, Inventor 220 IQ
Voltaire Writer 190 IQ
Garry Kasparov Chess grandmaster 190 IQ
Galileo Galilei Physicist/Astronomer 185 IQ
Descartes Philosopher/Mathematician 180 IQ
Immanuel Kant Philosopher 175 IQ
Plato Philosopher 170 IQ
Charles Darwin Naturalist 165 IQ
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer 165 IQ
Albert Einstein Physicist 160 IQ
Bill Gates 160 IQ
Nicolaus Copernicus Cleric/Astronomer 160 IQ
Rembrandt van Rijn Painter/Etcher 155 IQ
Abraham Lincoln President 150 IQ
Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor 145 IQ
Richard Nixon President 143 IQ
Hillary Clinton Senator 140 IQ
Madonna Singer 140 IQ
