Author: Craig Newmark

I shouldn’t eat them any more, but, yes, they are: good.

None: in North Carolina? I demand a: recount.

Very interesting. Do you have to be very clever to be good at it? It would be difficult to be strong at chess if you had a subnormal IQ, but you certainly don’t need an IQ of above average. I’m sure you could find very strong grandmasters with IQs around about the 100 mark, which […]

When they blow up they tend to blow up: big.

If you’re out and you gotta go, : you might want to try one of these: places.

“These are the astonishing masterpieces created by a high school teacher: during his 25-minute lunch break: – and then simply wiped away. “Gregory Euclide began making his ephemeral artworks to show pupils at his school in the Minnesota River Valley what could be achieved in just a short space of time.”

“Many students lack search skills and their schools are to blame.” . . . apparently too many students rely too heavily on the top search results when doing research, according to: an articlepublished on Inside Higher Ed. This problem is compounded by the finding that most students don’t really know how to conduct searches. Often times […]

Doing her thing: here.

Economist Larry Kotlikoff notes: Social: Security’s Handbook has 2,728 separate rules governing its benefits.:  And it has thousands upon thousands of explanations of those rules in its Program Operating Manual System, called the POMS, which provides guidance on implementing the 2,728 rules. He can help.

Politically incorrect and not for the easily-offended. But I think it’s funny and interesting. It was the May 2012 issue. The main item was “The 20 Best Small Towns in America.” Best how? Climate? Wealth? Low crime? High academic achievement? Let: The Smithsonian: explain: To help create our list, we asked the geographic information systems company Esri […]

Yes.