Category Archives: IQ

WP: Ebola’s lessons, painfully learned at great cost in dollars and human lives

The Washington Post misses the most important lesson of Ebola and AIDS and gonorrhea and the like — stupid people do stupid things and the more stupid people you let into your country, the more stupid the results. WP reports: … Continue reading

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Airline safety correlates strongly with the average IQ of the home country of the airline

You really don’t want to fly Air Asia (a low-cost Malaysian airline) or Malaysia Air or Egypt Air or Iran Air or Air Zimbabwe. Instead, fly a white or a North-East Asian airline. It’s not a coincidence that Malaysia keeps … Continue reading

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NYT: A Brooklyn School’s Curriculum Includes Ambition

Winnie Hu reports: There are just three blocks between the housing project where Kareem Butler lives and Mott Hall Bridges Academy, where he is in seventh grade, was named a scholar of the month and plays on the basketball team. … Continue reading

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LAT: IN RUSSIA, EARLY AFRICAN AMERICAN MIGRANTS FOUND THE GOOD LIFE

LATIMES.COM: Officials actively recruited skilled foreign laborers and professionals, Blakely said. About 18,000 Americans answered the call to work in the 1930s, he said. Among them were several hundred African Americans who traveled to the Soviet Union, including dozens who … Continue reading

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Bethlehem Movie 2013

At the beginning, the Arab teen protagonist seems to have an IQ of about 90. He gets a shoddy bulletproof vest and has a contest with a friend to see who is the most courageous and will get shot first … Continue reading

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