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researcherA new study devised by Talya Miron-Shatz, a Ph.D associate researcher in the Wilson School, found that financial security affects happiness more than actual money for the modern American woman.

“Even if you are making a hundred grand a year, if you are constantly worried that you are going to get fired, that you are going to lose your health insurance or that you are simply not sure you are going to ‘make it,’ you are not going to be happy,” Miron-Shatz said in a press release.

This just in. People who worry are less happy than people who don’t. The study seems to be in line with other self-evident conclusions researchers at Princeton are uncovering, at the heels of the groundbreaking discovery that men objectify naked women.

Miron-Shatz hopes to influence President Obama’s financial decisions, ushering him to focus on “strategies that create social and financial ‘safety nets’ over measures that would directly increase income.”

basketballIt’s a cold Friday night in the dead of winter, and none of the major basketball conferences have games. What’s an addictive professional gambler to do? Well, according to this New York Times article, the answer can be found in a small cult of gamblers who bet on Ivy League basketball games religiously every Friday night (kind of like Shabbat, but with less Challah). And because of the lack of information available on Ivy League teams on traditional sports websites like ESPN.com, the gamblers often turn to the student newspapers. Finally, a niche for the Prince beyond lonely breakfasters!

On the subject of Princeton basketball, after a 2-8 start and an improbable late season run, the Tigers have a shot to at least tie Cornell as Ivy League Champions if they can win at Columbia, at Cornell, and at Penn. (Likely? No, not really. But hey, crazier things have happened…)

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littlechef

Last week, a friend sent us this review of one of Princeton’s many bakeries, The Little Chef, with the note, “??? How have you not been here?”

How, indeed.

This week, we’ve visited Pouchon and his macarons et croissants four times.

Though Serious Eats’ review leans toward the long side, and is chock full of personal anecdotes that we happily skipped, one look at the ham-and-Gruyère croissant is all you need.

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(image source: moralaccountability.com)

Right-leaning Princeton professor Robert P. George recently launched a new blog, moralaccountability.com, or “the most elaborate pursuit of ‘I told you so’ since ‘An Inconvenient Truth.’”

According to an interview with the Catholic News Agency (expecting anything less?), George’s blog responds to pro-life constituencies that voted for Obama under the assumption that Barry’s economic policies would alleviate poverty and, by extension, abortion. In other words, he wants to prove just how wrong they are.

As for the blog itself, a flurry of intellectual masturbation has ensued among scholars that apparently think they’ll solve the issue. And George, well, he just knows that in the end, “somebody is going to be right, and somebody is going to be wrong.”

Here’s to you, Bobby.

fitzgeraldOn the occasion of tonight’s Oscars, here’s a December piece from Slate.com that looks at “how F. Scott Fitzgerald decided where to send his characters to college.”

The impetus for the article stems from the omission of Harvard references in the Best Picture nominated The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which is based off of Fitzgerald’s short story. In the story, Benjamin Button is a Harvard man, though in the film, he is Brad Pitt, so, like, whatever dude.

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