Category Archives: Science

Kid Geniuses


What’s the importance of intelligence, in the long run? Does it correlate with success?

It depends on your definition of success. When Camilla Benbow and her husband, David Lubinski, tracked the top scorers from the gifted camps, they found that the very cream of the cream tended to become physicists, those in the middle gravitated toward medicine, and those at the bottom became lawyers and businessmen. If they had looked at their salaries, though, I suspect that the order would have been reversed: the businessmen and lawyers would have come out on top, the physicists on the bottom. Intelligence is a wonderful asset for any career, but the life of the mind has never been all that well paid.

The New Yorker: Online Only

This is bad news for me since I want to be a physicist.

Expose Issues

I love Apple’s Expose which is a great way to quickly see all the windows on your screen. In fact, I’ve even setup one of the side buttons on my mouse to activate the “All Windows” expose option. (Incidentally, the other side mouse button does the show “Desktop” option).

However, Expose has this little problem when all your windows are the exact same size and all right on top of each other (like if you have a bunch of Safari windows fully maximized after being loaded from say NetNewsWire).

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Apple should try to do something to break the stalemate of where the individual windows go so you could at least see some of them.

However, the problem isn’t that bad because if you have any other window open (like Adium) it figures out a better placement.