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French Scientists Link Higher BMI with Lower IQ
Posted by timothy on Sunday October 15, @10:21PM
from the hey-I-resemble-that-remark dept.

Xemu writes "French scientists have linked obesity to lower IQ reports the Telegraph. In a new five-year study of more than 2,200 adults, people with a low body mass index (BMI) could recall 30% more words in a vocabulary test than those who were obese. The fatter subjects also showed a higher rate of cognitive decline when they were retested five years later. In the United States, 30% of the population is obese according to OECD. That's the highest rate of obesity anywhere. Do these high obesity rates affect the average IQ of the population?" (Of course, this sidesteps discussion of whether IQ tests measure anything significant at all.)

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New Stephen Hawking Movie in the Works
Posted by timothy on Sunday October 15, @09:38PM
from the reinvention-to-best-bono-or-tom-jones dept.

Simon Behler writes "The Sunday Times is reporting that Stephen Hawking is making a new movie. FTA: 'Professor Stephen Hawking, Britain's world-renowned physicist, is to switch from theories of multidimensional space to the three dimensions of the Imax cinema by starring in a film that sets out his ideas on the origins and fate of the universe. The film, Beyond the Horizon, will tackle some of the most daunting theories espoused by Hawking and other cosmologists, from the idea that space has up to 11 dimensions to the cause of the big bang itself.'"

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The weekend's over! Get off your lazy asses and get to work!
(I should too.)

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[twilightbanana.livejournal.com]

The question is of course wether they are less intelligent because of their obesity, or if they are obese due to their lower IQ?