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Good work : when excellence and ethics meet / Howard Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, William Damon.

<p>Including archive footage from previous Horizon programmes, this documentary, presented by Dallas Campbell, looks at what makes humans clever. Some of the programmes focused on the difference between animals and humans, others looked at clues from human development, such as cave drawings. Campbell looks back at the work of Francis Galton and a Horizon drama about Cyril Burt and his work on eugenics. Robert Klark Graham's research into intelligent genetics and his 'genius sperm bank,' a repository for the sperm of intellectual men. A Horizon programme which tested the IQ of seven different people, successful in their fields, is shown and Intelligence testing in general is debated. Work on artificial intelligence was the subject of a number of Horizon studies and these are shown including a study of the work of Kurzweil into computer intelligence.</p>

Horizon.

Horizon

What makes us clever? : A horizon guide.

The mind's new science : a history of the cognitive revolution / Howard Gardner.

xiv, 481, viii pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

The shattered mind : the person after brain damage / Howard Gardner.

The quest for mind : Piaget, Lévi-Strauss, and the structuralist movement / Howard Gardner.

The arts and human development : a psychological study of the artistic process / Howard Gardner.

MasterMinds

Extraordinary minds : portraits of exceptional individuals and an examination of our extraordinariness / Howard Gardner.

<p>This programme sets out to test intelligence by avoiding the standard use of an IQ test. Seven people, highly successful in their different fields, are put through a series of different tests aimed to 'measure' their intellect. The framing of the documentary, including the narrator, is similar to those from a popular TV series called 'The Apprentice', where entrepreneurs are pitted against each other.Participants include Susan Polgar a champion chess player, Gerry Stratford a jet fighter pilot, Alex Prior a musical prodigy, Nathan Hasselbauer an IQ champion, Bonnie Greer a dramatist, Seth Lloyd a quantum physicist and Stella Vine an artist. Initially on the original standard IQ test the clear winners are Lloyd and Hasselbauer but as different kinds of tests are put to the participants it becomes clear that intelligence can take on many forms, over-looked by the IQ test. These include tests to measure practical intelligence, imaginative thinking, artistic or creative thinking and emotional intelligence. Throughout we hear the opinions of various intelligence researchers, some of whom design the tests the participants take part in. Robert Plomin, geneticist, comments on how surprisingly heredital intelligence is. The end results are surprising with a draw for first place between Seth Lloyd and Bonnie Greer. There is some interesting archive footage relating to IQ testing in Scotland in the 1930s and then follow-up tests more recently.</p>

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Good work : when excellence and ethics meet / Howard Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, William Damon.

What makes us clever? : A horizon guide.

The mind's new science : a history of the cognitive revolution / Howard Gardner.

The shattered mind : the person after brain damage / Howard Gardner.

The quest for mind : Piaget, Lévi-Strauss, and the structuralist movement / Howard Gardner.

The arts and human development : a psychological study of the artistic process / Howard Gardner.

Extraordinary minds : portraits of exceptional individuals and an examination of our extraordinariness / Howard Gardner.

Battle of the brains.

Histoire de la révolution cognitive : la nouvelle science de l'esprit / Howard Gardner ; traduit de l'américain par Jean-Louis Peytavin.

The quest for mind : Piaget, Lévi-Strauss, and the structuralist movement / Howard Gardner.

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Good work : when excellence and ethics meet / Howard Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, William Damon.

What makes us clever? : A horizon guide.

The mind's new science : a history of the cognitive revolution / Howard Gardner.

The shattered mind : the person after brain damage / Howard Gardner.

The quest for mind : Piaget, Lévi-Strauss, and the structuralist movement / Howard Gardner.

The arts and human development : a psychological study of the artistic process / Howard Gardner.

Extraordinary minds : portraits of exceptional individuals and an examination of our extraordinariness / Howard Gardner.

Battle of the brains.

Histoire de la révolution cognitive : la nouvelle science de l'esprit / Howard Gardner ; traduit de l'américain par Jean-Louis Peytavin.

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