guest post by Christine Fulcher Havelock Ellis makes some interesting points about the personality features of geniuses in his book A Stud...

Francis Galton (1822-1911), from his book Hereditary Genius : I have no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often imp...

P.G. Wodehouse was one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His most famous fictional creation was Jeeves, the knowing and...

I have noticed over the last forty years that it has become more and more difficult to find anyone willing to do useful work in a polite and...

A young graduate who had read English at Oxford, and with whom I was corresponding, once referred to jokes about ageing. Certainly they are ...

It has been estimated that the proportion of a person’s intelligence which is inherited from his or her parents is upward of 50 percent . ...

The idea that ability is partly inherited continues to be controversial, for reasons that seem to have more to do with ideology than scient...

Good parents In order to be a socially approved parent it is necessary not to ‘push’ your child. There is a social myth to the effect that ...

One weakness of the pursuit of creativity is that it focuses attention on what seems to you to be significant (which admittedly is the only ...

My colleague Charles McCreery has recently published his book on out-of-the-body experiences. This is available from Amazon. Here are lin...