Education and Healthcare

Big Ten Conference 2021 Academic Standings

Here is a ranking of schools in the Big Ten conference, sorted by most recent academic statistics. In parentheses are the average SAT...

Ten Ways Cities Fought Pandemics Before COVID-19

1850 can teach us a lot about coronavirus, and about life. As the US took its first steps toward the Civil War and the formation of its...

How Do You Get Into College? This is the One Question Your College Application Must Answer

The following does not constitute advice. But it strikes me that many a college applicant would be better served approaching the college...

If the Ivy League Expanded, Who Would It Add?

Directionally, Harvard has a lot of suitors: Vanderbilt, “Harvard of the South”, Michigan, “Harvard of the West”, even Miami of Ohio,...

To Fix Healthcare, Consider Scrapping the Hippocratic Oath

How would we solve medicine if doctors thought more like economists? Though it has been at the forefront of American political discourse...

Is the Big Ten or the SEC a Better Academic Conference?

In 1835, Ohio and Michigan fought a near-bloodless battle over the boundary between their two states that left one dead and tensions...

NCAA Power Five Conference Academic Rankings

Here are the most up-to-date rankings of the five NCAA power conferences in median academic standards among the schools. For comparison:...

Saudi Arabia's NEOM is Breeding a New City Built Around Genetic Engineering

Cities for people or people for cities? An unlikely marriage between city planning and gene modification is reinventing the future city....

Ranking the Cities With the Greatest National Appeal to College Graduates

In 2018 the Wall Street Journal published this piece that examined where graduates from top colleges move after they finish college. It...

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