Funny, considering I recently heard about how college students are studying and reading less than ever!
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College students are working less hard, it seems

Philip Babcock and Mindy Marks report:

Using multiple datasets from different time periods, we document declines in academic time investment by full-time college students in the United States between 1961 and 2003. Full-time students allocated 40 hours per week toward class and studying in 1961, whereas by 2003 they were investing about 27 hours per week. Declines were extremely broad-based, and are not easily accounted for by framing effects, work or major choices, or compositional changes in students or schools. We conclude that there have been substantial changes over time in the quantity or manner of human capital production on college campuses.

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15954#fromrss

For the record, Victor died in the year 2000.

Joyeux anniversaire!

My wife and I were on our honeymoon in Thailand last year and say the Maetaman Elephant Camp in Thailand where the elephants can seemingly paint.

It truly is an amazing feat, but my wife discovered their secret. The trainer is standing next to them with a hand on a tusk. The elephant holds the brush and the trainer guides each stroke, as if the brush were an extension of the trainer's hand, through the tusk and trunk.

$40? That's like 25 cents an hour!

I don't think he was funny in the least bit. Why did the audience keep laughing? I don't think he is a very intelligent or witty man. Not a good combo if you want to be a comedian, if you ask me. Stick to the scripts, Robin.

From the video: The Mosaic browser was developed in "1933"

whaaa?

Here is one more vote for crazy gross. Almost made me lose my cookies.