Archive for the ‘ben fry’ tag
Of Football and Intelligence #
July 18th, 2008 | In Worth Considering
Of all the provocative possibilities raised by Ben Fry’s playing with intelligence (Wonderlic) scores and (American) football positions, the most obvious and interesting may be that offensive players — and especially linemen — are usually smarter than defensive players.
Two Maps of the United States #
May 7th, 2008 | In Worth Seeing
Both of these caught my eye:
- Delicious Ghost found some maps of where personality types, like extroversion and agreeableness, are located within (48 of) the United States. They’re from a column by Richard Florida, who has many more maps available on his site.
- Ben Fry, who recently made the “all streets” map, was pointed to a map [PDF] of the distance to a road in (48 of) the United States. He was pointed there by Tom Vanderbilt, who wrote that recent diatribe against playsets in your yard.