Archive for the ‘age’ tag
The Dumbest Generation #
Because I get sick of people judging whole “generations” of people (like in this 60 Minutes story, which re-aired over the weekend), I point to this line from a Newsweek story:
The old have been wringing their hands about the young’s cultural wastelands and ignorance of history at least since admirers of Sophocles and Aeschylus bemoaned the popularity of Aristophanes (“The Frogs,” for Zeussakes?!) as leading to the end of (Greek) civilization as they knew it.
Reading Faces #
Dolores Labs is quickly becoming the go-to source for entertaining data that I’m not comfortable calling science. Another example: they’ve asked people to judge faces by age, politics, and intelligence. They present the pictures as they were rated along those axes.
Coolness By Age #
I’m a sucker for graphs. If someone made Crime and Punishment a graph I probably would have read it — and all those other books — in high school. My favorite lines on this one are about candy.