The Bish

Ok, not really. But it did take awhile. Then again, this is purely time invested…so im not too proud. But I been done did it.



FIRST!

Boo-Yah!

From The Guardian Boob Water

…Though I don’t see any direct coorelation between this study and the glob of matter in my skull.

Breastfed children are brainier, study suggests
Researchers monitored 14,000 children in Belarus
Findings based on IQ and academic ratings at age six

Breastfed babies are more intelligent than those weaned on formula milk, according to the most comprehensive study conducted on the issue.

Doctors followed nearly 14,000 children over six and a half years and found that those who were breastfed fared significantly better in IQ tests.

At the age of six and a half, children who had been exclusively breastfed scored 7.5 points higher in verbal intelligence tests and 5.9 points higher in overall IQ tests. Teachers also rated the breastfed children higher at reading, writing and solving mathematical problems.

The finding, which confirms earlier research, raises the question of whether it is breast milk itself or associated maternal care that is responsible for boosting the intelligence of developing babies. Previous studies have hinted that breastfeeding increases intelligence, but the effect has proved hard to nail down.

One problem is that in nearly every study so far the mothers involved have chosen beforehand whether or not they plan to breastfeed. It meant doctors could not rule out the possibility that breastfeeding women were simply brighter, or were likely to interact more with their children. In the latest study, researchers led by Michael Kramer, a professor of paediatrics at McGill University in Montreal, studied children born at 31 maternity hospitals across Belarus between 1996 and 1997. They got around the problems faced by earlier studies by randomly assigning half of the hospitals to adopt a breastfeeding promotion programme, while the rest acted as a control group and continued to offer their usual post-natal advice.

Between 2002-05 the doctors interviewed 13,889 of the children and their mothers, around half of whom had attended clinics promoting breastfeeding. Of mothers who visited clinics that advocated breastfeeding, 43% fed their babies only on breast milk until the age of three months, compared with 6.4% of women at the control clinics.

“Our study provides the strongest evidence to date that prolonged and exclusive breastfeeding makes kids smarter,” said Kramer, whose research appears in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

Figures last year from the UK Infant Feeding Survey revealed 76% of women started breastfeeding their babies, but less than half continued to breastfeed their babies beyond six weeks.

The researchers’ study fails to answer the question of what it is about breastfeeding that boosts intelligence. “It remains unclear whether the observed cognitive benefits of breastfeeding are due to some constituent of breast milk, or are related to the physical and social interactions inherent in breastfeeding,” Kramer writes.

Breast milk is known to contain essential long-chain fatty acids and a chemical called insulin-like growth factor, which alone might be responsible for boosting intelligence.

It’s 1:53AM Sunday morning. I’m not going to bed tonight so I can get back on a normal sleep schedule. For the past month I’ve been going to bed around 4-5AM and waking up @ 7:30AM. And on the weekends, such as today, I go to bed @ 7-9AM and wakeup early/late afternoon. I went to bed @ 5-6AM last night and woke up @ 2PM today. I rule. It started about 4 weeks ago when I built a new PC. I stayed up until 8AM, and since then…I’ve not been tired around my usual bedtime. I tried to correct it just by going to bed earlier…but if I’m not tired…well, I can’t sleep. So hopefully I can grind out these next 18ish hours and go to bed.

But…the point of this, I just watched the movie in the title and its pretty fucking good. Low budget, made for TV I think…but I liked it a lot. It’s on Netflix right now for instant watching aka stream it. I’d recommend paying 8 bucks a month for those of you who are already not on netflix, for unlimited streaming. The available movies are usually older and not big hits. I don’t do the DVD thing because I’m lazy, but I do watch their movies free for streaming because once again, I’m lazy.

Really good fkn read that sorta blew my mind when it comes to civilizations beyond earth. It’s over on the right hand side next to “An Atheist Manifesto” and “C:\Bishop” under “Navigate.”

It’s a pretty long read; DO IT.