… he lived 'way back a long time ago:
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You may have heard that actual scientists have determined
that there was some hanky panky between Homo sapiens and
Homo neanderthalensis a few dozen millennia ago, evidenced by
genomes lurking in our DNA today. Without resorting to expensive genetic
testing,
Lore Sjöberg provides
a helpful quiz: How Neanderthal are you? Sample Q:
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When presented with a salad, is your first instinct to hide behind it
with a spear and wait for a bison to wander by?
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When presented with a salad, is your first instinct to hide behind it
with a spear and wait for a bison to wander by?
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A very new stadium, the most home wins in either league, and the New York Mets
can't enthuse their fans:
After 22 home games, attendance at Citi Field is down 6,852 fans a game, the largest decline by number in Major League Baseball. That translates to an average of 31,892 fans at games this season compared with 38,744 last season.
As a guy from that other team observed: "If the fans don't come out to the ball park, you can't stop them."(The Red Sox are averaging 37,496 at home this year, despite a smaller stadium and a—so far—mediocre season.)
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Hiring new faculty is a tough job. Steve
Landsburg mentions a timesaving step:
An anonymous math department chairman reports on his own strategy for cutting down on the workload. He believes that one of the most important determinants of a successful career is luck. So each year, he randomly rejects half the applicants without even reading their folders. That way, he eliminates the unlucky ones.
Brilliant! -
An (abridged) dirty UNIX joke
in the New York Times. Now there's
a string of words I never expected to type.