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http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/e3yjg/is_there_any_way_to_improve_intelligence_or_are/c153p8w
reddit user jjbcn on trying to improve your intelligence
If you're not a student of physics, The Feynman Lectures on Physics is probably really useful for this purpose. It's free for download!
http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/
It seems like the Feynman lectures were a bit like the Sequences for those Caltech students:
He brags shamelessly about his wide variety of interests: Drumming, lockpicking, PUA, biology, Tana Tuva, etc.