Archive for Januari 2016

The saving grace

I am a saver, but I do not know exactly why. For a rainy day perhaps, but rainy days are plentiful and cheap: I stay in and read something. ...

Yesterday, at a lakeside party, Bob told me about the evening he drove up to an isolated beachside hotel in Guatemala, some four decades ago...

Intelligence research may seem a lonely career choice. The public understanding of intelligence has fallen so far that all and sundry hav...

Would you be interested in attending the London Conference on Intelligence, to be held over the long weekend of 13-15 May? Speakers will i...

I am very glad that Garrett Jones has written “Hive Mind: How your nation’s IQ matters so much more than your own”. http://www.amazon.co...

Stuart Ritchie (of “Intelligence: All that Matters”) http://www.amazon.ca/Intelligence-That-Matters-Stuart-Ritchie-ebook/dp/B00RTY0LPO/ref=s...

In the 1930s an Argentine friend of mine was advised by his father to learn English “because English is the language of the future, but sta...

CORRECTION: The ONS weblink from 6th October 2015 which Mr Portes claimed was Dr Perkins’s data source for the numbers of children in wor...

Adam Perkins has now admitted that his claim "the higher the proportion of unemployed adults in a household, the greater the number ...

In November 2015 Palgrave Macmillan published my book ‘The Welfare Trait: how state benefits affect personality’. In it I propose an overa...

In reply to Adam Perkin’s “The Welfare Trait” Jonathan Portes of National Institute of Economic and Social Research has made the following...

I am impressed that people continue writing books, an enterprise which is heroic and very possibly futile: everything moves at such a fas...

To us, as to him, it has to happen somewhere, So the proud sea-bird rested his yellow beak On the lapping shore of a tourist beach, Le...

I have dawdled over this publication, which came out in November. Sometimes a tab remains open but leaves me suffused in lethargy, and only ...

It is a curious twist of fate that just as the M3 motorway out of London to the South West is being converted from its formerly perfectl...