Minds blown: are we getting dumber?
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Many adults perform worse in tests of literacy and numeracy than the average ten year old. And results have worsened in the past decade. Are our brains rotting? Russia’s economy could finally be nosediving (7:20). And remembering Eichmann’s jailer, Shalom Nagar (14:00).
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| 1:24.7 | The demise of the Russian economy has long been foretold, but as the war drags on and interest rates |
| 1:30.6 | rise sky high, is it now finally reaching a tipping point? |
| 1:39.8 | And Shalom Nagar was the Israeli prison officer who guarded Adolf Eichmann, |
| 1:44.6 | one of the chief architects of the Holocaust. |
| 1:47.4 | Later, he was picked by lottery to execute Eichmann. |
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