The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
College graduates are in for a rude awakening
Grade inflation has spawned a generation of graduates convinced they’re exceptional. They’re not
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/03/college_graduates_are_in_for_a_rude_awakening/
None of the articles I read yesterday or today grabbed me, but this one did. I really like …
As a kid I was big into Dungeons and Dragons, whiling away many, many weekends on adventures. I actually wound up being Dungeon Master quite a bit of that time, either because no one else would touch it or my …
Nate Silver: The polls aren’t wrong
Bias? The stats guru who nailed the 2008 election tells Salon it’s very hard for this many surveys to all be off
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/29/nate_silver_the_polls_arent_wrong/
The most interesting revelation to me in this article is that …
Why police lineups can’t be trusted
The single biggest cause of wrongful convictions is mistaken eyewitness identification. Is there a better way?
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/29/why_criminal_lineups_cant_be_trusted/
I also thought about calling this ‘Eyewitless Testimony”, but thought the quote from the article was ultimately …
Intraplate quakes signal tectonic breakup
April temblors part of massive ongoing energy release near Indonesia
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/345387/title/Intraplate_quakes_signal_tectonic_breakup
I often get the impression that non-science types think that scientists know everything about everything and hold back the juicy bits to spite the …