7 Think Tank

Did you know that we have a few Neanderthal genes in us? Some things never change ... I'll leave it at that. Nudge! Nudge! Wink! Wink! But one thing HAS changed ... if there ever was an 'upward trend' in human intelligence, it must have lost its nerve somewhere in the lower stratosphere, and seems to be reaching what could be an all-time LOW. Look around ... the statistical contribution of intelligent life to human outcomes seems to be vanishingly small, and the vanishing seems to be well on its way. Lulu gives me a space to fill. I fill it. Otherwise I might not even have bothered to point that out ...