Comics Are Smart
If you’re into films, you can’t help but be aware of the large number of graphic novels that Hollywood is transferring to the big screen. Highlights for me would include 300, The Dark Knight and – of course – Watchmen. As someone who ascribes their intellectual development unashamedly to reading comics as a boy, I think this is great. I hated school and textbooks of...
Read MoreLazy Intelligence Wins Again
There’s a good article in the BBC website about how a sound sleep aids your memory and ability to learn. Sleep helps your brain by strengthening connections between nerve cells. As one of the sleep experts put it, “During the day we acquire information, but at night we sort that information.” So, while you are sleeping, your brain is active. As a lover of sleep as well as a lover of...
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