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State legislatures nation-wide are currently considering versions of the Georgia House Bill 154, the “Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education Act”, a bill which claims to support the free exchange of ideas.

Learn issues first, be president later

In early 2002, I, in my youth, half-heartedly predicted that Hilary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice would respectively run for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations in 2008, mostly by virtue of “it-would-be-fun-to-watch.”

Blogging by choice, not by necessity

One of my favorite things to do on the internet is to read blogs. It’s fairly common, and judging by the fact that a fat man calling himself Perez Hilton can become one of the most popular bloggers on the planet, anyone with a computer can do it.

Methodology matters when determining intelligence

A recently launched website, imaginatively titled “Booksthatmakeyoudumb,” presents the results of a curious query: Is there a correlation between people’s intelligence and the sort of books people read? The site’s creator, Virgil Griffith, is a graduate student at Caltech and has a history of interesting data mining projects: he was also responsible for the WikiScanner, a site that correlated IPs of users making Wikipedia edits to the domains they belonged to and set off a number of scandals.

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