Just received a summons for jury duty today. Not sure if I should be pleased to be doing my civic duty or perturbed that I'm going to be missing five days of work. I'm not a dentist, lawyer, veterinarian etc., so I'm not officially MORE >>

Now had time to go through the ‘Business studies’ stuff for 11-12 year olds – it gets weirder. Take one of its ‘star’ businesses, wait for it…. Eidos! Sorry about picking on Eidos. d love to tell you about the other businesses, but hardly anything loaded and worked. The company profile makes no mention of this. SCi is the listed company. MORE >>

there was a great story in sunday's times on new york city's projected population boom, filled with all sorts of tasty demographic nuggets. but my favorite thing about it was the infographic that accompanied it on front page of the city MORE >>

justin blanton's account of getting results back from the national geographic genographic project is a fun read, and i was practically sending my $100 in for my own genetic analysis after the third paragraph, but i wonder if his account MORE >>

somehow i missed this study: from the 1966 coleman report, the landmark study of educational opportunity commissioned by the civil rights act of 1964, gentzkow and shapiro got 1965 test-score data for almost 300000 kids MORE >>