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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 📝📊 The #SAT was first administered to 8,000 students in June 1926, born from #WorldWarI #military I.Q. tests designed by #Princeton psychologist and eugenicist Carl Brigham.
Now taken by two million #students annually, fewer than 10% of U.S. #colleges require it for fall 2026 admissions, a shift accelerated by the #Covid #pandemic and long standing debates about what the test actually measures. The article traces the test’s #evolution from a tool that helped break into the old boys’ network of elite colleges to an #exam whose scores strongly correlate with family #income.
#history #education #equity #meritocracy #publicschool #highschool #academics #policy #learning #criticalthinking #teaching
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Hype for the Future 200D: City of Princeton, Minnesota
Overview The City of Princeton is a small city in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, though the largest city in the county, located at the very southern end of the county and into Sherburne County to the south. Within the general region, the community is attached to the corridors of Routes 169 and 95.https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/hype-for-the-future-200d-city-of-princeton-minnesota/
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Hype for the Future 191A: Route 65 in Northern Missouri
Introduction Within the State of Missouri, Route 65 is a notable north-south highway through the west-central portion of the State and is largely rural, save for the communities around Springfield and Branson in the southern portion of the State. North of the Missouri River, notable communities include cities and villages such as Chillicothe, Princeton, and Trenton, each with unique characteristics that differentiate each municipality from the surrounding rural territories. Interestingly, […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/hype-for-the-future-191a-route-65-in-northern-missouri/
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Hype for the Future 191A: Route 65 in Northern Missouri
Introduction Within the State of Missouri, Route 65 is a notable north-south highway through the west-central portion of the State and is largely rural, save for the communities around Springfield and Branson in the southern portion of the State. North of the Missouri River, notable communities include cities and villages such as Chillicothe, Princeton, and Trenton, each with unique characteristics that differentiate each municipality from the surrounding rural territories. Interestingly, […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/hype-for-the-future-191a-route-65-in-northern-missouri/
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Hype for the Future 191A: Route 65 in Northern Missouri
Introduction Within the State of Missouri, Route 65 is a notable north-south highway through the west-central portion of the State and is largely rural, save for the communities around Springfield and Branson in the southern portion of the State. North of the Missouri River, notable communities include cities and villages such as Chillicothe, Princeton, and Trenton, each with unique characteristics that differentiate each municipality from the surrounding rural territories. Interestingly, […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/hype-for-the-future-191a-route-65-in-northern-missouri/
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Hype for the Future 191A: Route 65 in Northern Missouri
Introduction Within the State of Missouri, Route 65 is a notable north-south highway through the west-central portion of the State and is largely rural, save for the communities around Springfield and Branson in the southern portion of the State. North of the Missouri River, notable communities include cities and villages such as Chillicothe, Princeton, and Trenton, each with unique characteristics that differentiate each municipality from the surrounding rural territories. Interestingly, […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/hype-for-the-future-191a-route-65-in-northern-missouri/
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Hype for the Future 191A: Route 65 in Northern Missouri
Introduction Within the State of Missouri, Route 65 is a notable north-south highway through the west-central portion of the State and is largely rural, save for the communities around Springfield and Branson in the southern portion of the State. North of the Missouri River, notable communities include cities and villages such as Chillicothe, Princeton, and Trenton, each with unique characteristics that differentiate each municipality from the surrounding rural territories. Interestingly, […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/hype-for-the-future-191a-route-65-in-northern-missouri/
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Winter Morning at Lake Carnegie Dam
The usual spot was flooded and empty. -
R.I.P. Jerry Ostriker (1937-2025)
Once again I find myself using this blog to pass on sad news. This time it is of the death of renowned astrophysicist Jerry Ostriker (pictured left in 2012), who passed away on Monday 6th April 2025 just a week before his 88th birthday.
Jeremiah Paul Ostriker (to give his full name) was an extremely energetic, versatile and influential theorist who worked on a wide range of problems in diverse areas of astrophysics and produced a number of classic papers. Close to my own specialism I would quote two in particular: one written with Jim Peebles in 1973 about the stability of galactic disks; and the other with Martin Rees in 1977 about the role of gas cooling and fragmentation in determining the size of galaxies and clusters. He also did much to establish the use of hydrodynamic simulations in cosmology and was an early adopter of the current standard cosmological model, including a cosmological constant. He worked on many other things too, including pulsars and galactic nuclei.
I only met Jerry Ostriker a few times, mainly at conferences – where he was never shy to contribute to discussions after talks – but also once back in the 1990s when I was a visitor Princeton (where he was Professor). I didn’t have much time to talk to him then as he always seemed to be on the go, so I never really got to know him personally. After spending most of his career in Princeton, including a spell as Provost, in 2001 Ostriker moved to Cambridge for a short stint as Plumian Professor, before returning to Princeton.
There is a very nice obituary of Jerry Ostriker by Dennis Overbye in the New York Times.
Rest in peace, Jerry Ostriker
#Astrophysics #Cosmology #galaxyFormation #JeremiahPOstriker #JerryOstriker #Princeton
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Yes! Which makes Wake Forest the new #Vanderbilt, #Brown the new #Princeton, and #SUNY-Purchase the new #FairleighDickinson. That’s just the rules!
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“The 3rd problem is that if you ally yourself w/a #ConArtist, you have to become part of the #con yourself. You have to become #TedCruz, who went to #Princeton & #HarvardLaw & is married to an employee of #GoldmanSachs, ludicrously popping a brewski live on TV — an elite nerd’s attempt to appear #populist.”
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Our #regroup partner Federico Fabbrini is co-hosting a 2-day Law Conference with Miguel Centeno & @kimlanelaw on: "Constitutionalism after Covid-19: Transatlantic Perspectives on Risk and Resilience" with an impressive program!
Great to collaborate with Princeton School of Public & International Affairs and DCU Law Research Centre!
See more and register here: https://rb.gy/pc7w
@politicalscience @socialscience
#pandemicpolitics #covidresearch #pandemicrecovery #conference #princeton