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"Few science bloggers have the good fortune to write off a Vegas trip as "research", but that's exactly what it was: my next book for Penguin is all about my experiences as a former English major learning calculus, inspired by a series of blog posts I wrote in 2006. "
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"[Charle Murray's] pessimistic view of peopleâÂÂs ability to learn ignores not just good evidence to the contrary but the real pressures the American economy is facing."
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"Lose the I.Q. determinism and the second half of Real Education [by Charles Murray] is worth reading."
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Gende balance issues aren't just a problem for real sciences.
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Top-selling robot T-shirts.
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"Phelps, the 6'4", 200-pound aquatic mammal, and the first ever SeaWorld swimmer to be raised in captivity by foster swimmers (Mark Spitz and Dara Torres), was recaptured by trainer Bob Bowman in a hoop net baited with an entire Dutch apple pie following Phelps' final Olympic event last Sunday."
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