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  • January 29, 2010

    The Whisky Taster

    ...really should have stopped an hour ago. But not for Barney in James Graham's new play. Barney is a synaesthete: he experiences...with eccentric characters. There is plenty of wry comedy in James Grieve's production as Barney and Nicola (Kate O'Flynn) attempt to convince their pushy boss Malcolm and a sceptical...
  • February 8, 2005

    Flynn's task to get Rentokil in focus

    When Doug Flynn takes the helm at Rentokil Initial in...chief executive since last summer when James Wilde was pushed out. The search for the...According to one analyst: "In a nutshell Mr Flynn's task will be to carry out an extensive...The most important decision for Mr Flynn is whether to keep the group in its current...
  • January 28, 2010

    The Whisky Taster, Bush theatre, London

    ...really should have stopped an hour ago. But not for Barney in James Graham’s new play. Barney is a synaesthete: he experiences...with eccentric characters. There is plenty of wry comedy in James Grieve’s production as Barney and Nicola (Kate O’Flynn) attempt to convince their pushy boss Malcolm and a sceptical...
  • March 7, 2008

    Reverse in trend for high IQ scores

    ...there are now signs that this rise - known as the Flynn Effect after James Flynn of the University of Otago in New Zealand, who first...in the journal Intelligence. The reasons for the Flynn Effect - and the extent to which it represented a...
  • March 8, 2008

    The Viewing Room

    ...people's homes. Roberts glowers from behind bars in the middle of the living room as the young professional couple played by James Flynn and Samantha Wright try to behave humanely towards him but end up grotesquely condescending. Rubin's play raises a number...
  • November 10, 2007

    Why dad’s not as clever as you

    What is Intelligence? Beyond the Flynn Effect By James R. Flynn Cambridge University Press £15.99 216 pages FT bookshop...the mean at 100. Picking up the story in this book, James Flynn notes that the phenomenon throws up several paradoxes...
  • November 10, 2007

    Why dad’s not as clever as you

    ...Richard Tomkins WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE? Beyond the Flynn Effect by James R. Flynn Cambridge University Press £15.99 216 pages...mean at 100. Picking up the story in this book, James Flynn notes that the phenomenon throws up several paradoxes...
  • January 9, 2007

    Ignore the sweetener of yet another deal and go organic

    If the political scientist James Flynn is right, and IQ levels in the developed world are rising by about...research carried out with consultants Towers Perrin. Maybe the "Flynn effect" is making itself felt among the investment banking and...
  • January 8, 2007

    Ignore the sweetener of yet another deal and go organic

    If the political scientist James Flynn is right, and IQ levels in the developed world are rising by about...research carried out with consultants Towers Perrin. Maybe the “Flynn effect” is making itself felt among the investment banking and...
  • August 12, 2006

    Are children getting cleverer?

    ...interesting, because in the early 1980s, James Flynn - at 72 now an emeritus professor at the...another. This phenomenon, now known as the Flynn effect, had previously gone unnoticed...score at 100. Taken at face value, the Flynn effect would imply that human beings are...
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