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James Flynn in the New Scientist

In The New Scientist Perspectives Section this month, James Flynn argues for a confrontation of issues surrounding race and IQ. His research into changing IQ scores over the past few decades (the Flynn...

James R. Flynn | 15 Sep 2008

Economic Principles on Mission and Money

On Mission and Money, Economic Principles had some kind words yesterday. ‘The book appears at a propitious time. Just last week, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Peter Welch (D-Vermont) convened...

15 Sep 2008

Democrats Introduce Offshore Drilling Scheme

After chants of “Drill, baby, drill” at the Republican National Convention, a Democratic Congress has changed their attitudes on offshore drilling. From the New York Times: ‘Even more...

James R. Flynn | 12 Sep 2008

Darwin Letter Friday

The writer’s life hasn’t changed much. Move to the big city, live in a tiny apartment, and get dragged down by all the distractions and frustrations that accompany this process. When I moved...

12 Sep 2008

Book Publicity is Not Easy

For a unique window into what we go through in the publishing industry, even as book review sections and reviewers are slashed left and right, The Guardian’s Book Blog: There are many zany tactics...

12 Sep 2008

Kidney for Obama Tickets

Trading a kidney for tickets to see Obama at the DNC. On Craigslist. Good deal? Trustworthy? I’m not sure, but at least they picked a very well rendered, accurate picture of a kidney, courtesy of...

11 Sep 2008

Sarah Palin – Scandal Free

A pregnant daughter, a state trooper firing, and the "bridge to nowhere" which she may or may not have supported (I'm not sure how that one goes). Sarah Palin has shrugged off scandals that would threaten to bring other politicians a lot of grief.

Ari Adut | 11 Sep 2008

Win a New Martin Gardner Book #2

Update: This is last week’s puzzle, click here for this week’s puzzle! It’s that time again! I’ve got another problem from Martin Gardner’s Origami, Eleusis, and the Soma...

10 Sep 2008

Do Universities Spend Enough of their Endowments?

For the most part, they’re nonprofits. So can universities demonstrate their benefit to society? A New York Times article yesterday reported on a meeting between university presidents and two members...

Burton A. Weisbrod, Evelyn D. Asch, Jeffrey P. Ballou | 9 Sep 2008

Tim Lynch on Afterwords

September 8, 2008 Wow, lots of good video lately. Earlier, we had one of our authors on CNN, questing for the real Ithaca. Now, After Bush author Tim Lynch has appeared on C-SPAN‘s Afterwords. He...

8 Sep 2008

Searching for the Real Ithaca

The Odysseus Unbound saga continues Where is the Ithaca of Homer, home to Odysseus? This has been a point of contention, since today’s Ithaki bears little resemblance to Homer’s description...

8 Sep 2008

Darwin Letter Friday

September 5, 2008 What do you pack for a journey around the world? Well, if the year is 1831, guns. Lots of them. Charles Darwin wrote his sister Susan 177 years ago tomorrow with a packing list for the...

5 Sep 2008