The smarter you are, the more you find funny. So it's no surprise that smart folks from the higher echelons of every discipline have their own in-jokes. But surely their knowledge isn't so specialized that you couldn't enjoy their jokes as well? Redditors recently took turns sharing their ow... Read more...
World's richest woman Gina Rinehart is enduring a media firestorm over an article in which she takes the "jealous" middle class to task for "drinking, or smoking and socializing" rather than working to earn their own fortune. What if she has a point? Steve Siebold, author of "How Rich People Thin... Read more...
Unemployment rate for black 16 to 24-year-olds available for work now double that for white counterparts, ONS data shows The Office for National Statistics says unemployment for young black male jobseekers has risen from 28.8% in 2008 to 55.9% in the last three months of 2011, twice the rate for ... Read more...
Institutions including Harvard and Vanderbilt reportedly use hedge funds to buy land in deals that may force farmers out US universities are reportedly using endowment funds to make deals that may force thousands from their land in Africa. Photograph: Boston Globe via Getty Images Harvard and ot... Read more...