I've gotten way behind on my RSS...though I caught up a bit over Thanksgiving. West Hunter. Greg Cochran and Henry Harpending's blog. Eurasian Sensation. Liberal Eurasian Australian blogger. Matt Yglesias moved to Slate. This means that his salary is coming in large part from a firm which he has excoriated in the past. (Slate is owned by The Washington Post Company) Rod Dreher is now at The American Conservative. Sorry, Strivers: Talent Matters. "Nor is it to say that it’s impossible for a person with an average I.Q. to, say, earn a Ph.D. in physics." I think it is possible to earn a Ph.D. in physics with an average I.Q., but only from institutions like Razib-Khan's-Internet-University, where you pay me $100 for me to send you a printout which purports to give you a Ph.D. in physics. In fact, if someone who is a Ph.D. in physics can send me ...
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