January 2011
15 posts
1 tag
What's in a Surname? →
nationalgeographicmagazine:
A new view of the United States based on the distribution of common last names shows centuries of history and echoes some of America’s great immigration sagas. To compile this data, geographers at University College London used phone directories to find the predominant surnames in each state. Software then identified the probable provenances of the 181 names that...
1 tag
j0anne: The Present... →
j0anne:
brentescay
Imagine there is a Bank that credits your account every morning with $86,400. However, it carries over no balance from day to day and every night the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of…
1 tag
1 tag
“A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires...”
– Unknown
1 tag
1 tag
We're actually getting dumber: how intellectual...
By Meghan O’Neill
In high school, I was the only liberal in my class. Every Wednesday in my history class, we’d talk about current events and debate domestic and international issues. Almost every week, the debate ended up in a shouting match over abortion, but every so often we talked about something more interesting: the overall state of our country.
As someone who considers...
1 tag
