December 16, 2013

Bomb Brothers: The Full(er) Story

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The Boston Globe has published an in-depth story of the Tsarnaev family, including asking a key policy question: Why were they here? The...
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Graph of most and least accurate media sites on IQ

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Psychologist James Thompson has graphed one bit of the new survey of psychometricians  by Rindermann, Coyle and Becker: Now, obviou...
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It's time to spread Christmas cheer

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A friend emails from Japan: My browser just rendered your site upside-down AND backwards!  That reminds me: it's time for an iS...
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December 15, 2013

Army football coach fired for not recruiting enough accused rapists

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From the NYT: Army Coach, Winless Against Navy, Is Fired After Rout   By JOE DRAPE One day after it lost to Navy for the 12th consecu...
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Peter O'Toole, RIP

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From my review of Stephen Fry's 2004 comedy "Bright Young Things," a fine adaption of Evelyn Waugh's bleak comic novel V...
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MIT: "Even when test scores go up, some cognitive abilities don’t"

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The trendy Common Core in K-12 education is intended to teach "critical thinking skills" rather than rote memorization of stale f...
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December 14, 2013

Survey of psychometricians finds iSteve one of 3 best journalistic outlets in the world for intelligence coverage

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Psychologist James Thompson has been in Melbourne attending the annual conference of the International Society for Intelligence Research ...
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I shot a man in Reno just to hear him whine

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From the Associated Press : A Reno man has been placed on probation and fined $1,000 for shooting a golfer whose errant ball broke a bedr...
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M.C. Escher's "Library of Babel"

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These photos of the old-time Cincinnati main public library that was finally torn down in the 1950s have been going around. The picture ...
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December 13, 2013

Another triumphant shattering of stereotypes

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Via Marginal Revolution , a quote from Machine Gambling in Las Vegas : While in the past the typical gambling addict had been an older ma...
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Twin studies debunked: Twins are "Similar but not identical"

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In the UK leftosphere, The Independent strikes back against The Guardian betraying the sacred verities when the Grauniad gave a good wri...
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December 12, 2013

Uh oh, Martin Scorsese took my advice

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While reading about Martin Scorsese's upcoming movie The Wolf of Wall Street ( opening Christmas) with Leonardo DiCaprio playing convic...
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The hidden divide in American institutions

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It's often noted that American companies and institutions tend to be divided into dynamic new ones (Twitter, Facebook, SnatchChat,  The...
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Fukuyama's "History of the World: Part II"

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Awhile back I reviewed for The American Conservative Francis Fukuyama's intended magnum opus The Origins of Political Order, Volume I...
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December 11, 2013

New twin study by Plomin, Shakeshaft et al

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From PLOS one, a big new British study of school test scores of 5,474 pairs of twins. (This is not a study of twins raised apart, however....
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Success in science: It's not totally a zero-sum game of identity politics, you know?

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Here's a Stanford U. press release from 2009 that somehow strikes me as relevant to the current editorial in the New York Times abou...
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The Guardian: "Genetics accounts for more than half of variation in exam results"

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From The Guardian : Genetics accounts for more than half of variation in exam results   Environment, including home and school life, is...
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