Around the Blogs, Vol. 65: Sneering, Snickering and General Bemusement

1. "Racehorse Haynes" (Steve Sailer explains why, if you absolutely must get killed, you shouldn't do it in the U.S.A.)

2. "The question was to describe a job that I believed helped the world and to explain why I thought that. Of course, my first thought was 'well, not your job because this is clearly a waste time in some broad sense.'" (Joshua Gans, Australian, takes an English language test so he can immigrate to Canada) (via)

3. "Should I Divorce Him?" (Dalrock studies the female psyche) (via)

4. "What does this graph convey? It doesn’t tell us much about phone calls, but it does tell us that some people can make colored maps with lots of lines. It also tells us that someone has a bunch of telephone call data." (Andrew Gelman has another one of those graphs)

5. Do skeptics complain about the right things? (José Silva develops a signaling theory) (via)