Via Chicagoist, this map has been stuck in my mind all day. It compares the number of grocery stores in one area to the number of bars. If there are more grocery stores than bars, the area gets a yellow dot and if there are more bars than grocery stores, it gets a red dot: I don’t know why I thought...

From The New York Observer: For the first time there are more e-books than games in the iPhone app store, reports the Guardian (UK). Books now outnumber game apps 27,000 to 25,400–and the paper says that e-books are “gathering momentum” in anticipation of the iPad. Publishers find...

Here’s a follow-up on last month’s post on the Large Hadron Collider: “The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) must close at the end of 2011 for up to a year to address design issues, according to an LHC director. Dr Steve Myers told BBC News the faults will delay the machine reaching its full potential...

Neil Sinhababu has some interesting thoughts about the Articles of Confederation: And as far as I can see, things were pretty awful. Without the power to tax, we couldn’t raise an army or give veterans their pensions. Since we didn’t have a proper navy, Barbary pirates would enslave our...

A recent study in Social Psychology Quarterly is causing a bit of a stir lately, and I’m not surprised: it says that smarter people are more likely to be liberals and atheists…well, that’s almost what it says: “More intelligent people are statistically significantly more likely to exhibit...

The truth is is that blogging with the frequency we aim for at Consider is hard work. That’s why the Consider staff is doing what every other student at Michigan is doing: taking a break. We’ll be back in about a week. –The Editors