{"id":5692,"date":"2009-03-19T16:01:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T21:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5692"},"modified":"2009-03-19T13:18:07","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T18:18:07","slug":"gobi_is_brain_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/19\/gobi_is_brain_f\/","title":{"rendered":"Gobi is brain food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We regularly get news tips about freakishly smart desi kids, like six year old Pranav Veera:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Pranav Veera can recite the names of the U.S. presidents in the order they served in office. He can say the alphabet backward. Give him a date back to 2000, and he&#8217;ll tell you the day of the week. He&#8217;s only 6 years old&#8230; <font style=\"background-color: #ffd2bd\"><span class=rp_highlight>Pranav has an IQ of 176&#8230; Albert Einstein&#8217;s IQ was believed to be about 160<\/span><\/font>. The average IQ is 100. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/education\/2009-03-12-younggenius_N.htm\">link<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n\n<p>p>Yawn. Another desi Doogie in diapers. I mean, the kid is cute:<\/p>\n\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n\n<p>p><\/p>\n\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n\n<p>p>\n<center><object height=344 width=425><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dpWn9t-_joY&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\">\n<embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dpWn9t-_joY&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>But he&#8217;s not really <em>that<\/em> smart: <img src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/wink.gif\" align=absMiddle border=0><\/p>\n\n<blockquote>What does Pranav want to be when he grows up? &#8220;<font style=\"background-color: #ffd2bd\"><span class=rp_highlight>An astronaut<\/span><\/font>,&#8221; he said without hesitation. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/education\/2009-03-12-younggenius_N.htm\">link<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n\n<p>p>Besides which, I know the secret of our racial success. No, it&#8217;s not secret pooja, genetic superiority or even sheer numbers (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/education\/2009-03-12-younggenius_N.htm\">if one person in a million has an IQ of 176 or above<\/a>, and there are over a million desis in America &#8230; ), it&#8217;s <strong>parents<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n\n<p>p>\n<center><object height=344 width=425><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vFL0w1ruiCM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\">\n<embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vFL0w1ruiCM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We regularly get news tips about freakishly smart desi kids, like six year old Pranav Veera: Pranav Veera can recite the names of the U.S. presidents in the order they served in office. He can say the alphabet backward. Give &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/19\/gobi_is_brain_f\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}