The Round-Up #1: The week's top links

Welcome to the Round-Up. Throughout the week, I will be posting links to the most interesting, funny, and/or unique articles I read via DWG's Twitter feed, downwithgt. Then, on the weekend, I will post links to the 3(ish) most interesting, funny, and/or unique articles I tweeted. So, here, ladies and gentleman, is the Round-Up #1:




"Maybe doing "stupid" things shows intelligence": About psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa's study that suggests intelligent people are more likely to try drugs. Kanazawa's theory is that intelligence evolved as a way to deal with environmental factors that humans are not accustomed to...namely by just doing it. If this is true, does it mean that intelligent people are more likely to do things most people dismiss as stupid?

"Is it time for the US to have a king?": The presidency is too much. To lead a nation while embroiling oneself in the political mud? To provide a moral compass while engaging in backroom deals? Impossible. We need one leader and another head politician. One to sweep us off our feet and the other to deal with the politics.

A more interesting article on this here.


"SB Nation's Andrew Sharp on Cam Newton and how to fix the NCAA": The NCAA is pretty strict in keeping its players unpaid and many people don't like this. Andrew Sharp thinks the players should be paid and that there should be a salary cap - and he knows how to get it done. As for education, these guys are basically majoring in their chosen sport.


"global warming not a big deal?There r cheap ways of dealing w/ it.+humans r very adaptablehave 2 changing environments": There are better ways to deal with global warming than doing all of that green stuff. For starters, we should start using a lot more white paint in our cities to keep out the excess heat they currently attract. Anyway, why worry about climate change when humans are so adaptable to varying climates?

THIS is the intrigue I want to see in international relations. Alex Eichler, The Atlantic Wire: I am really having a honeymoon with the Atlantic Wire. 

Fifteen percent of all internet traffic went through Chinese servers for eighteen minutes, most of which was going to or from seemingly important sites, i.e. Army, Navy, Senate... Why? On purpose? What do they want? I don't know but its bleepin intriguing. By the way, US cyber security is very bad.


This article can't be accessed unless you have a subscription to the Wall Street Journal. I don't but I read that the author perceives a decline in whistling in society and uses the article to wonder aloud what that might mean. Probably worth a read if you have an online or print subscription to WSJ.