College Rankings

Richard Posner writes an interesting blog entry about college rankings, such as U.S. News and World Reports rankings. In an earlier entry I spoke about recruiting undervalued college prospects. Posner’s blog speaks about how students pick from the many...

Implicit Association Test

The implicit association test is thought to gauge initial reactions of our attitudes. Creators of this test have looked at attitudes toward race, gender, and political affiliation. Other users of this test are looking at the clinical psychological applications. For...

Richard Feynman

The video below shows Richard Feynman, famous Nobel laureate physicist, sharing some of his thoughts on how science adds to the wonderment of nature.

So this blog is not the worst

A writer at Wired magazine set out to create the worst blog in the world with her blog of pictures of crowds. Her story of the creation of this blog can be found here.It is quite a relief that people are putting in effort to create blogs worse than this one.

From The Onion

Kindergartner Being Groomed For Line-Leader PositionBELLE MEADE, TN—Kindergarten teacher and mentor Mrs. Allen believes 6-year-old Gregory Hutter “has what it takes” for the coveted post.