Quote of the day

There's a lot more to being a good basketball player than being tall, and there's a lot more to being a good thinker than having a high IQ.--David Perkins

UPDATE: From the same article (link above), a fast 3-question test:

1) A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

2) If it takes five machines 5 minutes to make five widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets?

3) In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of it?

If you got all 3 correct, you score about a standard deviation higher than the mean. If you missed all three, you are safely below average (in the bottom third of college students, anyways). Answers here.