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271 votes | submitted 2010-08-24 12:37:16 by mklopez | 84 comments
The Reader's Digest Version of all those confusing words and seemingly random rules you missed in
English class.
212 votes | submitted 2010-08-24 16:35:24 by amprather | 65 comments
With Ph.D. students competing for fewer and fewer jobs, one professor believes the academic
marketplace is turning into a Ponzi scheme.
265 votes | submitted 2010-08-24 22:48:26 by robinbal | 86 comments
Your Sex Question: Will a doctor be straight with me -- does pulling out work? Read on to find out.
192 votes | submitted 2010-08-23 20:50:01 by mklopez | 32 comments
If you're wasting time reading this right now, you probably need a better job. That means you need a
good cover letter. Allow us to give you some tips for success --with counterexamples from an
all-too-real hilariously bad cover letter.
375 votes | submitted 2010-08-24 00:19:57 by scarlettletter | 73 comments
The lifetime value of a college degree has dropped to an estimated $300,000, down from a high of $1
million just a few years ago.
290 votes | submitted 2010-08-23 01:08:55 by AmyVernon | 33 comments
Some parents motivate kids by paying them for earning good grades on their report cards. Those sorts
of arrangements often dissolve by college. Money, however, can be a great motivator. At least,
that's what the young entrepreneurs who started Ultrinsic are betting on: that college students will
essentially want to gamble for grades.
405 votes | submitted 2010-08-22 18:14:28 by bettverboten | 108 comments
More than 700 children are born with genetic diseases every year as a result of cousin marriages, an
investigation has found. The medical risks of first cousin marriages include higher rates of infant
mortality, birth defects, learning difficulties, blindness, hearing problems and metabolic
disorders.
388 votes | submitted 2010-08-20 14:47:57 by crea8iveart | 175 comments
Men love being with women. So we talk and we listen, and some of us take that information and make
an effort to be better people on your behalf. However,
342 votes | submitted 2010-08-20 11:06:22 by subatomicdoc | 28 comments
Matthew Taylor explores the meaning of 21st century enlightenment and how the idea might help us
meet the challenges we face today.
251 votes | submitted 2010-08-19 23:51:05 by scarlettletter | 65 comments
Maybe you already think that child abuse in the United States is a major problem, maybe you don't,
but the statistics don't lie: 80,000 children in the U.S. are victims of abuse and growing.
174 votes | submitted 2010-08-19 18:18:15 by FYQue | 34 comments
Boys are catching up with girls as the gulf between the sexes reaches its narrowest point in almost
a decade.
279 votes | submitted 2010-08-17 22:13:01 by deafbeat | 12 comments
AskMen teaches you how to prevent your own Wikileaks scandal.
616 votes | submitted 2010-08-16 22:22:07 by Lucas123 | 460 comments
According to a new Newsweek list, the United States is not the worldbeater it was a decade ago. On
economic fundamentals such as GDP growth, household consumption, industrial production, and trade,
the U.S. was ahead on most metrics 10 years ago. Not today.
952 votes | submitted 2010-08-15 22:27:40 by soloride | 140 comments
This post is a condensed overview of principles I taught to undergraduates at Princeton University
in 1998 at a seminar called the “PX Project”.
222 votes | submitted 2010-08-13 13:08:28 by lekahe | 23 comments
Whether or not you think it's an unlucky day, or an unlucky number, however, celebrating the day
might be a way to throw less negative light on it and serve as some reassurance for you.
331 votes | submitted 2010-08-12 19:30:54 by DahRecords | 155 comments
A far-right conservative political group called SaveCalifornia.com is turning its unwholesome
attention from anti-gay marriage legislation, Prop 8, to fighting this year's pro-marijuana
legislation, Prop 19, the legalization measure on November's California ballot.
501 votes | submitted 2010-08-12 18:06:23 by growvideos | 259 comments
At this time of year many rising high school seniors are visiting college campuses, trying to
determine which schools interest them. Their parents are busy figuring out what they will have to
pay. Here are three salient facts about tuition and fees. Over the last 30 years, the average
sticker price at public and private American universities...