Posted in education, news and links, tagged books, colleges, correlation, facebook, griffith, humor, intelligence, reading, sat, sat scores, statistical correlation, survey, virgil griffith on February 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Caltech student Virgil Griffith downloaded, using facebook, the ten most popular books in each college, and correlated it with the average SAT score of the students in that college. The results are funny and interesting. Of course, it is not a scientific survey and not meant to be taken too seriously.
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Posted in India, miscellaneous, news and links, people, tagged shahrukh, shah rukh, abs, neha dhupia, body, sexy, shak rukh khan on February 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Google News has been feeding me a new headline everyday about Shah Rukh’s abs. Today we are informed that Neha Dhupia gives full marks to them.
Personally though, I’d prefer to gaze at Neha’s any day.
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Posted in libertarianism, news and links, tagged academia, academics, freedom, ideology, ilya somin, liberty, political ideology, political ignorance, rational irrationality, somin, volokh on February 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Libertarianism has an obvious moral appeal to those who value freedom (and I believe most of us do). However libertarian policies also often have huge political, economic and social advantages which while not obvious at first glance are nevertheless apparent to those who are have studied the matter in some depth. Thus, I have often [...]
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