Paint, Not Books

There's actually been a small silver lining to our newfound anxiety over the lead content in balsamic vinegar: it's got us thinking about education spending in a new way. How's that? Well, upon learning that our favorite salad-dressing base might well harm Microkhan Jr.'s neural health, we started thumbing through the literature on lead poisoning's effects on IQ scores. Once a body starts doing that, all roads inevitably lead to this 2003 study from the New England Journal of Medicine. Its...