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Do you know your own IQ? 

Better question: do you think your IQ number indicates a ceiling of sorts, a boundary beyond which your brain cannot go?  This very subject is debated briskly at the moment. 

Science journalist Dan Hurley got in between the people who insist you CAN expand your brain power and the skeptics--and put himself through a number of paces--for his book Smarter: The New Science of Building Brain Power.

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.