Believe it or not, there is a website dedicated to “books that make you dumb” (or smart). Virgil Griffith compiled a diagram of 100 most popular books read by college students (based on their Facebook statistics, that’s kind of a bias in itself) and placed them in relation to that college’s SAT and ACT scores. [...]
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Books that make you dumb
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Tablecloth “Art”
11.17.07
Though the food was especially bad at Macaroni Grill last night – or maybe it was just the stuff we ordered – we made the best of our visit when the three of us drew this masterpiece on the paper tablecloth. I simply had to take a picture.
Yes, my phone camera sucks but I [...]
Dinosaur Nuggets?
11.09.07
Is there a hidden history (prehistory?) lesson in this or am I reading too deep into it? If it is, it’s definitely not something god-fearing Christians would buy. Too bad for “Perdue Farms.”
If you have no idea what I’m talking about: there is a pretty respectable theory that birds are descendants of dinosaurs. And [...]
US Mail As a Source Of Entertainment
11.09.07
The funniest thing I saw today didn’t come from YouTube, in fact, it didn’t come from the internet at all, but the good ol’ US Mail. In his letter to “home lookers”, the man who appears to be a “home loctor” – as stated on the return address label – in just a short, one-paragraph [...]
