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Archive for February 7th, 2010

Monday Reading Madness #35

Posted by Dennis Shiraev on February 7, 2010

- Months later, Maine highlights the underutilization of our emergency alert system.

Lego competition in Duffield.

- The Ivy League is apparently immune to such problems, but here’s an analysis of what happens when you have a 60-40 ratio on campus.

- Another big weekend for men’s basketball, while hockey goes 1-1.

- Two Cornell professors discuss gender equality in engineering.

- This was from last week, but in case you didn’t hear, tuition is going up. (Via METAezra).

- How did I miss this?

- New Pew research says blogging is down among young adults.

- Our friends at the Stanford Review blog cover an interesting on-campus debate about Christianity and capitalism.

- Another reminder that Cornell’s fraternity mishaps pale in comparison to the stuff that unfortunately goes on at other schools.

- It’s an old story now, but kudos to Pi Phi for getting their fashion guide picked up by… Fox News!

- Some sort of spiderman device, brought to you by Cornell researchers.

- Stephen Hayes argues that the White House is politicizing intelligence.

- We might have two more sets of confirmation hearings on our hands in the near future.

- Finally, I can’t help but pass along this fascinating bit of experimental research. Hat tip to JP.

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