Lots of goodies on the Internet this morning. I'll post a pile of links and then decide later what deserves more attention.

More discussion about the Duke study that found that access to the Internet lowers test scores. Apparently, this finding also holds for low-income kids. I've got to read that whole study. 

Great column by Ross Douthat ranting about last week’s news that Americans with million-dollar mortgages are defaulting at almost twice the rate of the typical homeowner."But conservatives need to recognize that the most pernicious sort of
redistribution isn’t from the successful to the poor. It’s from savers
to speculators, from outsiders to insiders, and from the industrious
middle class to the reckless, unproductive rich."

More on the Jezebel/Daily Show showdown.

"The tenure system of academia is uniquely incompatible with the
biological clocks of working women, according to a new study, one of
the first to examine the persistent "leak" of talented women from the
pipeline that produces professors" No joke!