Category: Asides

short lit­tle sound­bytes

Encyclopedia Smackdown

In yet anoth­er vin­di­ca­tion of Wikipedia, the pres­ti­gious sci­ence jour­nal Nature just released a fas­ci­nat­ing arti­cle, Inter­net ency­clopae­dias go head to head which did some thor­ough research and dis­cov­ered that at least in sci­ence, Wikipedia is on par with the Ency­clo­pe­dia Bri­tan­ni­ca for accu­ra­cy (if not ele­gance). Dis­claimer: I’m a proud Wikipedi­an (user­name Glen­Davis)

Vaguely Surprising

The Assem­blies of God State­ment of Fun­da­men­tal Truths appar­ent­ly mer­its an arti­cle on Wikipedia.

Is Stanford Worth It?

Our team­mate Lind­sey found a great arti­cle about the return-on-invest­ment of elite schools like Stan­ford.

Pregnancy, Skydiving, and Asphalt. Ouch.

On Shay­na Richard­son’s first ever solo jump her main para­chute and her back­up mal­func­tioned and she hit the ground face-first at 50mph. Ouch. While in the hos­pi­tal she learned she was preg­nant. The baby seems to be fine. found via my pas­tor

Actual Details On The Giant Black Box Called Springfield

Rich Tatum post­ed a fas­ci­nat­ing arti­cle on the recent Assem­blies of God restruc­tur­ing process. These are the kind of details I’d like to get from head­quar­ters instead of the usu­al rah-rah stuff I get in the min­is­ters’ let­ter or Enrich­ment Jour­nal.

The Facebook In The WSJ

Extreme­ly pop­u­lar web­site the Face­book seems to be alarm­ing some col­lege admin­is­tra­tors.

In The Dorms This Morning

I was on cam­pus this morn­ing strolling through Toy­on, and I noticed a lot of appar­ent­ly dorm-spon­sored fly­ers cel­e­brat­ing Hanukah and Kwan­zaa. I noticed some­thing was miss­ing, and so I asked a stu­dent if there were any dorm-spon­sored Christ­mas acknowl­edge­ments any­where in the dorm. She said no.

I Just Coined a New Word

Gum­nas­tics:
(1) as a noun, the fas­ci­nat­ing facial con­tor­tions of a tooth­less per­son
(2) as an adjec­tive (gum­nas­tic), of or per­tain­ing to the facial motions of the untoothed

College Factoid

“The aver­age age of an under­grad­u­ate stu­dent is 26, reports the Amer­i­can Coun­cil on Edu­ca­tion. But the aver­age age of an under­grad­u­ate liv­ing on cam­pus is 20, the group says.” (source: Alco­hol mak­ers on tricky path in mar­ket­ing to col­lege crowd)