By 11th grade, the high-IQ students and their parents have spent so many years immersed in the college-admissions game that they, like 18th-century aristocrats evaluating which family has the most noble line, are able to make all sorts of fine distinctions about which universities have the most prestige: Princeton is better than Cornell; Williams is better than Colby.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Question: What has been the change in Brazil’s per capita GDP in both nominal and PPP terms – expressed in US Dollars – since 1995?
Via IMF datasets for Nominal GDP and PPP GDP respectively.
| Year | Nominal GDP per Capita (USD) | GDP per Capita (PPP) (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | $4,852 | $8,364 |
| 2000 | $3,752 | $9,328 |
| 2005 | $4,806 | $11,334 |
| 2010 | $11,341 | $15,160 |
| 2015 | $8,893 | $17,337 |
| 2020 | $7,057 | $18,485 |
| 2025 (Est.) | $10,578 | $23,239 |
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Here is the Fall 2025 HigherED.zone ranking of the Five Best Business Schools in West Virginia:
This Top Five List was determined by a ranked choice vote of the HigherED.zone editorial board.
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Dario Amodei, who has a mop of curly hair and perennially askew glasses, gives the impression of a restless savant who has been patiently coached to restrain his spasmodic energy. He was later joined at OpenAI by his younger sister, Daniela, a humanities type partial to Joan Didion.
~ Gideon Lewis-Kraus via The New Yorker
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Question: Which five countries are the world’s top Garlic Producers?
Via FAO Stat
Based on 2022/2023 FAOSTAT reported data.
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Here is the Fall 2025 HigherED.zone ranking of the Five Best Business Schools in Washington state:
This Top Five List was determined by a ranked choice vote of the HigherED.zone editorial board.
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