Cornell Insider

From howstuffworks.com

- In case you haven’t seen it, check out Kent’s humor page on the unintended consequences of Resolution 44.

- Oh yeah, and check out our awesome new website, in case you haven’t visited yet.

- Two Cornellians have a shot at being drafted into the NBA this year. According to the post, six players from the invitational tournament last year were selected as draft picks.

- Bloomberg article on Cornell basketball.

- Professors Squyres and Norton will team up to teach a new explorations course next semester.

- Cornell researchers find that “urine-filled mosquitos are less likely to spread disease.” A Cornell study also found that 70% of brides-to-be wanted to lose weight before getting married. Do they get all this research money from stimulus funding?

- Obama’s approval rating drops to 47%. (Gallup).

- Google is not making us stupider, survey says.

- Fred Barnes chimes in with some potential 2012 candidates.

- Via MR, an interesting test of religious open mindedness. On the same topic, here’s another Somin post on intelligence and atheism.

- From Krauthammer’s article on Obamacare: “The man who ran as a post-partisan is determined to remake a sixth of the U.S. economy despite the absence of support from a single Republican in either house, the first time anything of this size and scope has been enacted by pure party-line vote.”