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Archive for April 6th, 2009
Ideas are like pizza dough…
Ideas are like pizza dough: made to be tossed around. Does intelligence make you less stressed? Are wealthier kids more intelligent? What about healthier kids? How does it all relate? What is Intelligence? author James Flynn, and the world of measuring intelligence in today’s USA Today.
V. Islam’s Horses of the Desert
In their early wars, the Arabs soon gained advantage over the enemy through the superior mobility afforded by dromedary support of the horse. Accustomed to the meager diet of Bedouin existence, without supply train they traversed barren and inhospitable lands, traveling at night with the bright light of the desert stars.
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