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Intelligence quotient

FTC Complaint: Children’s Apps Not Really Educational

A complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission last week claims that many mobile apps claiming to be educational are not. The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood filed the complaint against Fisher-Price “Laugh and Learn” apps and Open Solutions, a software developer. The advocacy group argues that screen-play can even be harmful if it comes […]

Can creativity be measured with a score?

Arts, Culture & Media

Effects of chemicals in flame retardants

Health & Medicine

Pesticides’ Influence on IQ

Pesticides Influence on IQ

Presenting LOE’s Contest Winner

Steve talks with the winner of the recent Living On Earth website contest polling listeners’ environmental IQ. And the winner is… Ms. Goldie Freeman, a teacher in Dorchester, Massachusetts.

Eco IQ

Author Daniel Goleman takes us on a shopping trip that tests our eco smarts.

Emerging Science Note/The Toll of Technology

A British study shows that workers’ IQs suffer more from the distractions of phone calls, emails, and text messages than from the effects of lack of sleep or the use of marijuana.

The World

Reining in Mercury

As the U.S. nears its first regulations to control mercury from power plants, critics are questioning whether the rule will do enough to protect children from the pollutant. A new study says mercury pollution lowers IQ for hundreds of thousands of children and costs the U.S. economy billions each year. Living on Earth’s Jeff Young […]

The World

The genius in all of us

Arts, Culture & Media

When you hear the word “genius,” you might think of Einstein, Mozart, or Da Vinci. But how they became geniuses is the subject of debate. Where they born that way? Or does it come from sheer tenacity?