from San Luis Obispo, California

a view from a walk around the neighborhood in San Luis Obispo, California

Here are some of the things that I found interesting:

teen exercise and dementia

‘Physical activity can be fun and engaging, and we have to convince people of that in order to prevent some of these diseases of old age.’— Researcher Laura Middleton

link between IQ and infectious disease

“INFECTIOUS disease is taking an unexpected toll by sapping people’s brainpower in the world’s poorest countries. So say Christopher Eppig and colleagues at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, who found that a country’s disease burden is strongly linked to the average IQ of its population.

a nice mention by neuroscience & psychology blogger Wray Herbert via the British Psychological  Society