The finding, which confirms earlier research, raises the question of whether it is breast milk itself or associated maternal care that is responsible for boosting the intelligence of developing babies.
Given evidence that both reading ability (Torgesen, 2005) and interest (Wigfield, Guthrie, Tonks, & Perencevich, 2004) are amenable to intervention, findings showing that improvement of these factors could also boost the development of intelligence are of clear practical interest for educators.
Nervana Systems, a San Diego-based startup that is focusing on hardware — not software — to boost the performance of artificial intelligence algorithms, just raised $600,000 from investors including Ali and Hadi Partovi, Y Combinator's Sam Altman and Geoff Ralston, Scott Banister and Allen & Co.
Last July, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner announced that he would donate $100 million to boost the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, but according to Shostak, it isn't likely to benefit the Institute directly.
So the idea is to offer an alternative route to boost business intelligence vs the "traditional" route of data-sharing by simply expanding databases — because, as Irvine points out, literal data pooling is "coming under fire right now — because it is not in the best interests, necessarily, of consumers; there's some big privacy concerns; there's a lot of security risk which we're seeing show up".
Mr Smith, who is a former intelligence officer, wants bigger numbers first and foremost, but he also wants to boost the force's capacity for political intelligence work.
Even into the 20th century one tribe in Papua New Guinea modified their infants in the belief that it boosted the child's intelligence.
I do find it unseemly to see the intelligence leaks coming out of there trying to boost this president's image.
The intelligence was garbage.
