by Leroy Hurt | Dec 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider and Satyan Devadoss: The left side of the circle is broken into 15 parts, each representing a grouping of all majors available at Williams. For example, “Cultural Studies” includes such majors as Anthropology, Sociology, and Asian...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: Intelligence Quotient, or IQ, has been used to sort people, whether job candidates or schoolchildren, for decades. Now, a century after psychologists first came up with the idea of “general intelligence”, the world’s biggest study of its kind has...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: Since William Hooker of Abingdon, Ill. invented the spring-loaded mousetrap in 1894, more than 4,400 patents for new mousetraps have been filed in the U.S. But has anyone really improved on the spring trap? A recent protracted and methodical...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: In the half hour we talked to Pablo he greeted at least 20 residents and five workmen coming and going (in English and Spanish); made at least ten calls upstairs to announce visitors; helped someone who had the wrong address; answered a...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: Paul Niehaus, Michael Faye, Rohit Wanchoo, and Jeremy Shapiro came up with a radically simple plan shaped by their own academic research. They would give poor families in rural Kenya $1,000 over the course of 10 months, and let them do whatever...
