Archive for October, 2007
Thursday, October 11th, 2007
Paul Kinsella performed a remarkable survey that tests a person's honesty when faced with the prospect of keeping a $0.35 wallet containing $2.10 and a $50 gift certificate or returning it to the owner using the id card contained in the wallet. Paul had the bright idea of recording hilarious conversations from many ...
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
The stats of the rich, if not famous, has now been revealed in a study of many of the S&P 500's leaders. Spencer Stuart conducted this fascinating study which reveals things like:
Since 1980, the top 100 CEOs are getting younger
Harvard is no longer the most commonly attended school by top CEO's
Less than ...
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
Naomi Oreskes published an essay which summarized her 2004 lecture on a survey she performed of 928 papers relevant to global climate change. Of these papers, 75% either explicitly or implicitly supported the theory that global climate change is man made. The other 25% of the papers took no position ...
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
According to a recent study by Krista M. C. Cline and Kenneth F. Ferraro of Purdue University, Christians tend to overeat. Jared Binder of the Dallas Observer, observes:
"There’s this thing in the Bible called gluttony. The Bible says it’s a sin. But we don’t like to talk about that particular ...
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