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The Days Keep Getting Longer … Literally

Posted on June 30, 2012

Keeping track of time is never easy without an accurate clock and so people have come up with a number of different folk methods to keep themselves on pace. One of the most common…

You Are What You Watch

Posted on May 6, 2012

Experian-Simmons released some survey data in December that looked at the relative popularity of major television shows for three different political groups: liberal Democrats; conservative Republicans; and middle-of-the-road voters. Each show was given…

Geographic References in Local Business Names

Posted on March 21, 2012

This little exercise came about after I read an article on the old Northwest Territory in the U.S., which basically consisted of all the land west of Pennsylvania, northwest of the Ohio River, and…

Thick as a [LEGO] Brick

Posted on February 11, 2012

A few weeks ago, Samuel Arbesman wrote an article in Wired touching on the mathematical properties inherent in LEGO structures. In it, he discussed the results of a 10-year old study of natural and human-made…

Favre-a-Palooza

Posted on December 17, 2011

Now that we can safely say that Brett Favre has retired (notwithstanding rumors to the contrary), I thought it was time to pull out some data on the indecisive quarterback’s career touchdown…

Earnings and Unemployment by College Major

Posted on November 28, 2011

The Wall Street Journal recently published a table of income and unemployment data  that presented pay and employment rates for various college majors. The original study by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and…

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