The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt

On September 19, 2011, in Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, by Wilfried F. Voss

One of the world’s most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.

Scientific Study: Conservatives Have Lower IQ

On March 1, 2010, in Neurotica, by Wilfried F. Voss

The more intelligent people are, the more they are willing to engage into something new. Conservatives and religious people, in turn, do have a lower intelligence quotient. Psychologists believe, the phenomena can be explained through an evolution-biological view.