"A riveting look at the birth of a new science." --Daniel H. Pink, author of "Drive"
When he was eight years old, Dan Hurley was labeled a "slow learner" because he still couldn't read. Three years later, he had become a straight A student.
Until the publication of a major study in 2008, psy[...]

Can you make yourself smarter? Scientists have always believed that the one thing that couldn't improve was intelligence. But now science journalist Dan Hurley investigates the new field of 'intelligence training', showing that intelligence can be flexible and trainable. With vivid stories of lives [...]

Expanding upon one of the most-read "New York Times Magazine" features of 2012, "Smarter" penetrates the hot new field of intelligence research to reveal what researchers call a revolution in human intellectual abilities. Shattering decades of dogma, scientists began publishing studies in 2008 showi[...]