Who was Dorothy Parker? Defining voice of NYC’s Roaring Twenties, ‘A Star is Born’ scribe and more

Who was Dorothy Parker? Defining voice of NYC’s Roaring Twenties, ‘A Star is Born’ scribe and more

Dorothy Parker did not like movies. She did not like Hollywood. And she really did not like the people who ran it. The native New Yorker — whose witty, urbane writing helped define the Roaring Twenties — couldn’t even deign to utter the words Los Angeles; she called it “out there.”  Yet in 1929, at … Read more

Does IQ Decline as We Age? One Type of Intelligence Peaks in Your Twenties

Does IQ Decline as We Age? One Type of Intelligence Peaks in Your Twenties

Many of us are familiar with the idea that as we get older, we become less mentally agile; but is this something that can be measured – does our IQ decrease with age? If it does, at what speed does it do so? Do different types of intelligence decline at different rates? In order to … Read more