There was a little ad in the Smithsonian, offering $1000 to someone who can disprove the APTheory.

The best article in this month's Smithsonian magazine is the profile of Caroline Hoxby, who has studied the relationship between family income and the likelihood of a high-performing student applying to a top tier school. Maybe the most interesting tidbit of information is the relationship between income and students who perform at the 90th ( Read more... )

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Interesting interview with virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier in Smithsonian“I’d been an early advocate of making information free ... I’d had a career as a professional musician and what I started to see is that once we made information free, it wasn’t that we consigned all the big stars to the bread lines. Instead, it was the middle-class ( Read more... )