Monthly Archives: May, 2010
Are Hybrids Good for the Environment?
Along the lines of calculators, here we feature another one, this time to calculate the eco-friendliness of that new car you’re thinking of buying. According to Wired Magazine, building a Toyota Prius consumes 113 million British Thermal Units (BTU), while a gallon of gas contains about 113,000 BTU. The 2008 Prius can go 48 miles [...]
Is Your Education Worth it?
Since the school year is over and our seniors just graduated, many will be spending more time wondering about their future employment situation and, seeing that the situation is still somewhat dire, might be wondering if they should be further educating themselves, and if so, how? Along these lines, we are re-posting an earlier article, [...]
Dumb Store with not so Dumb Items
Check out our new store! Nothing tells that special someone how much you care quite like a Dumb Agent T-shirt, or jogging suit, or a coffee mug. We also have bags and stickers you can display with pride! And, at the bottom of the page you will find a continuously updated list of recommended books. [...]
Zipf’s Law
Zipf’s Law is a statistical curiosity that has been observed time and time again, although there is no determined reason for it. It was first observed with word occurrence, and simply put, it states that the frequency of a word is inversely proportional to the word’s ranking among all other words. In other words (sorry), [...]
Next Bubble Watch
As if there hasn’t been enough talk of bubbles recently, we thought we would draw your attention to Alternative Investments. Two Swiss economists, Philippe Masset and Jean-Philippe Weisskopf, analyzed the prices of wine in comparison to the Russell 3000 index (odd comparison) and found that wine would have had the highest return between the two [...]
