Intelligence, Math and Field
Razib has up a really interesting post on different fields and how intelligent people are in those fields. Specifically he focuses in on verbal skills and math skills on the GRE tests. The graph of verbal vs. math was quite interesting – especially with physicists out in the corner. More interesting to me was the [...]
Better to Be an Adulterer than a Mormon?
A lot of people are discussing Francis Beckwith’s comments at Patheos about how evangelicals are not so subtly saying it is better to be an adulterer than a Mormon. It’s a great post and takes a line of thought I’d never even considered before. A few quotes:
Pew Mormon Study
The internet has been ablaze today with the latest Pew Forum Survey on Mormonism. BCC has up a discussion of the report and also live blogged the conference call at Pew. As I mentioned in the BCC thread a few things seem really off. They have the rate of self-identification as Mormon at nearly 2% [...]
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes and mathematics. The recent movie, not the books.
Lectures Not Learning
Do you really learn from lectures? (I never did – I have much preferred the professors just hand out their lectures)
New Years Resolutions
I’ve got a few New Years resolutions. Normally I hate such things but this year I want to get back into my more academic studies. I’ve been so busy the past years that things have fallen farther and farther behind. My first big resolution is to get caught up on my reading of Object Oriented [...]
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