Braininess in kids may not depend on the amount of gray matter so much as how fast it both thickens and thins as they grow up.
Not exact matches
For Virginia Postrel, writing
in The Atlantic back
in 2007, it was dramas like CSI and Numb3rs that were making
braininess sexy and imparting a «geeky glamour» to the airwaves — and that was before the rise - to - total - dominance of House, a prime - time juggernaut whose climax each week involves a man having a scientific epiphany illustrated by an animated sequence of a corpuscle misinterpreting a hormonal signal from a gland.
After years
in the wilderness, RTS is pretty cool again right now, and something as cheerfully straightforward as this is just what's needed to stop the big
braininess of «Company of Heroes» and «Supreme Commander» leading to another plunge into an inaccessibility that turns more casual players off the whole genre.
A Wrinkle
in Time, the movie, loses some of L'Engle's
braininess — «tesseracting» time travel becomes less a consciousness - expanding journey than a yoga class
in one scene — but
in its place, there's a quiet radicalism, some of it offscreen.
It feels now like a slight wheeling back on the bleak existentialism of the peerless «The Dark Knight,» delivering more
in the way of outright entertainment (Anne Hathaway's Catwoman, for example) but maybe a little less
in terms of
braininess and coherent philosophy.
Lauda is a mechanical genius — logical to a fault with the kind crippling of social ineptitude that frequently accompanies
braininess — but he's steely - eyed and absolutely ice -
in - his - veins fearless.
San Diego is a breeding ground for
braininess, and deciding to live near all that sun and sand might
in itself be a sign of intelligence.