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The White House Is Getting America Ready For Its Quantum Leap

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in cybercrime/malcode, policy, quantum physics | Leave a Comment on The White House Is Getting America Ready For Its Quantum Leap

10.01.
2018

While the rest of the country has been transfixed by the Brett Kavanagh confirmation drama, the White House was quietly but steadily taking major steps to secure America’s high-tech future.

The first was the release of the National Cybersecurity Strategy last week, which I discussed in a previous column. This week came the National Strategic Overview for Quantum Information Science (QIS), released by a subcommittee of the Committee on Science for the National Science and Technology Council. This document is a big win for Jacob Taylor, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s point man on all things quantum, and a major win for America.

Your Environment Could Be Changing Your IQ on a Genetic Level, Study Finds

Posted by Xavier Rosseel in genetics, neuroscience | Leave a Comment on Your Environment Could Be Changing Your IQ on a Genetic Level, Study Finds

10.01.
2018

Be gone flat earthism.

The nature-versus-nurture argument of intelligence just got a lot more complicated with the discovery that the environment can modify the expression of a key gene in the brain, affecting intelligence far more than we previously thought.

Such a finding may not come as a surprise if you remember that numerous genes influence our IQ and stressful experiences can lock and unlock genes in our brains. Yet having hard evidence of the link will no doubt stir debate on just what it means to be “smart”.

Researchers from the Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin analysed the characteristics of a number of genes among a group of healthy adolescents, and compared the results with intelligence scores and various neurological traits.