Posts Tagged ‘George Mason University’
Dinosaurs: Not the Prehistoric Lardasses We Thought They Were
Geoffrey Birchard, an associate professor at George Mason University, helped discover a problem. According to a press release sent out by GMU, Birchard and his crew figured out that the traditional method for calculating the mass of dinosaurs was faulty.
As such, the release states: "some dinosaurs may actually have weighed as little as half as much as previously thought."
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Our Morning Round-Up: The Day After Average Day
Good morning, City Desk readers. Did y'all enjoy your average day? Check out our average day tag to read yesterday's reporting experiment in full. Now for Freedom Friday:
- George Mason University's economics department (known for its unquantifiable love of freedom) is losing the very smart Peter T. Leeson to the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory at the University of Chicago, where he'll join the likes of Steve Levitt and Kevin Murphy. Leeson is the author of the sure-to-be-funny Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates. [H/t to Tom at Fr33 Agents]
College Rag Wrap Up for Feb. 9
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College Rag Wrap-up: Your weekly roundup of what’s new(s) in D.C. college papers (and blogs). Each Monday, City Desk summarizes the most interesting stories from college oriented newspapers and blogs in the area. Links are compiled by City Paper intern Ryan J. Reilly, who is an editor at Catholic University’s student newspaper, the Tower.
