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  1. I'm going to start tweeting again because apparently none of my work in graduate school gets assessed before June. #Britisheducationfail 3:58 PM Oct 6th from TweetDeck
  2. back on Twitter after orientation hiatus; puttering around Goodenough College, London http://bit.ly/ZJEUy 10:05 AM Sep 18th from TweetDeck
  3. I'm out of the zeitgeist, so have these photos of the world moustache championship been linked to everywhere already? http://bit.ly/VmcQS 4:53 PM Sep 2nd from TweetDeck
  4. just met a missouri payday loan officer who says her company charges 60% monthly interest ... don't usury laws prevent that? 3:28 PM Sep 2nd from TweetDeck
  5. hey @amherstcollege : WaMo ranking says you are #1 for the 'public good,' which seems like a good thing to brag about http://bit.ly/zNb1W 11:30 AM Sep 2nd from TweetDeck
  6. @jonhenke was thinking of your argument for more means testing while writing this http://bit.ly/CseTw 11:36 AM Aug 31st from TweetDeck in reply to JonHenke
  7. woo, TNR archives are back. it WAS canada's fault after all... 8:56 AM Aug 28th from TweetDeck
  8. @janegalt howzabout this: I'll write a blog post and send it to you 8:45 AM Aug 28th from TweetDeck in reply to janegalt
  9. I am not interested in disputing the former claim, but Mankiw seems surprised that someone would make the latter 8:42 AM Aug 28th from TweetDeck
  10. but Nisbitt's conclusion is that "both genes and class-related environmental effects are powerful contributors to intelligence" 8:40 AM Aug 28th from TweetDeck
  11. @janegalt the 12 v 12 was referring to the French study 8:40 AM Aug 28th from TweetDeck in reply to janegalt
  12. @janegalt the argument as I understand it is this: being born rich raises IQ 12 points AND being raised rich raises IQ 12 points. 8:33 AM Aug 28th from TweetDeck in reply to janegalt
  13. @willwilkinson I completely agree with that: a little nature, a little nurture. but I still want to take the Mankiw adoption challenge 8:18 AM Aug 28th from TweetDeck in reply to willwilkinson
  14. if you have JSTOR, any chance you can send me "Assessment of Effects of Socioeconomic Status on IQ in a Full Cross-Fostering Study" (1989)? 8:08 AM Aug 28th from TweetDeck
  15. @pegobry that said, I'm sure the genes matter! (and I think the Nisbitt book makes that clear) 7:55 AM Aug 28th from TweetDeck in reply to pegobry
  16. it took 15 seconds of googling to find problems with the mankiw theory: high-income adoptees are 12 IQ points higher http://bit.ly/2RzLIp 7:52 AM Aug 28th from TweetDeck
  17. can he really believe that? yikes RT @mattyglesias: Greg Mankiw's theory of the master class: http://bit.ly/2ScDV 7:44 AM Aug 28th from TweetDeck
  18. more hard-hitting stories from AP national news feed: "Drunk man found at grocery store eating avocados" http://bit.ly/155BX3 8:16 PM Aug 25th from TweetDeck
  19. @catoinstitute, @chris_moody, as promised, some quick thoughts on why federal workers make so much money http://bit.ly/emZnA 10:11 AM Aug 25th from TweetDeck
  20. new TNR.com looks pretty but I can't read anything without it crashing 10:09 AM Aug 25th from TweetDeck