Robert Twigger argues that we need to stop treating those who excel in one area (monomaths) and give more credit to those who are generalists, interested in and interesting about many subjects: Polymaths such as Da Vinci, Goethe and Benjamin Franklin were such high achievers that we might feel a bit reluctant to use the […]
Colin Woodard author of American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, argues that the United States, Canada, and part of Mexico are actually best understood as 11 distinct countries. He writes: The borders of my eleven American nations are reflected in many different types of maps—including maps showing the […]
The New York Times reports that admissions counselors might just be watching: Of 381 college admissions officers who answered a Kaplan telephone questionnaire this year, 31 percent said they had visited an applicant’s Facebook or other personal social media page to learn more about them — a five-percentage-point increase from last year. More crucially for […]
Zerohedge.com has compiled 21 statistics about poverty and wealth in the United States. Among them: The lowest earning 23,303,064 Americans combined make 36 percent less than the highest earning 2,915 Americans do. 40 percent of all American workers (39.6 percent to be precise) make less than $20,000 a year. According to the Pew Research Center, […]
Not everyone was entirely impressed with Waiting for Superman, the documentary we watched today. This video is a response to some of its claims.