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Why Finding the Best Isn’t Worth It

In the delightfully sophomoric movie Clerks 2, Randal tells Dante, “Odds are there’s someone out there who’s a better match for you than the girl you are about to marry.” Even if Dante engaged in the most thorough possible search for a wife (which he certainly didn’t in the movie), Randal’s statement is correct. Read More »



How the O.G.’s Did Business

The We Are Supervision blog has a collection of business cards used by Chicago street gangs during the 1970′s and 1980′s. They are extremely interesting as well as — depending on where you work — extremely NSFW. Read More »



New Math: No Pain, No Gain

Here is the latest installment of Craig Damrauer‘s “New Math.” Earlier posts can be found here, and his own site here. Read More »



The Downside of Sexy Science

A paper by a team of scientists and analysts maps out how fields and subdisciplines emerge in 21st-century science. One of the main findings: much like trendy baby names boom and bust, the most high-influence subdisciplines also tend to be the most short-lived. Read More »