Some thoughts on the divine purpose of imagination that should be of interest to Mormons. (more…)
New Mexico’s Heather Wilson thinks our educational system is failing the elite students. Too much system, too little real education. (more…)
“In truth, every event in this world is a type of those that follow, history proceeding forward as a circle ever enlarging. The days of the Apostles typified the last days…In like manner every age presents its own picture of those future events, which alone are the real fulfillment of the prophecy which stands at the head of all of them.”
-John Cardinal Newman
I’m no dittohead. But there have been a couple of occasions when Rush has absolutely nailed it.
“This brief research note aims to estimate the magnitude of the association between general intelligence and physical attractiveness with large nationally representative samples from two nations. In the United Kingdom, attractive children are more intelligent by 12.4 IQ points (r = .381), whereas in the United States, the correlation between intelligence and physical attractiveness is somewhat smaller (r = .126). The association between intelligence and physical attractiveness is stronger among men than among women in both nations.” (link)
Lacking a compensating trade-off between looks and smarts, many of us will have to make do, as Elwood Dowd recommended, with being oh so pleasant. Also, those who selected a looker for a spouse weren’t so shallow after all.
Iowahawk, CSI:Tucson. I laughed hard.
