Most Literate U.S. Cities: Denver is 4th...

This in from Yahoo News.

Most Literate U.S. Cities: Minneapolis and Seattle

Residents of Minneapolis and Seattle are the most bookish and well-read, according to results from a new survey released today of the most literate American cities.

The survey focused on 69 U.S. cities with populations of 250,000 or above. Jack Miller of Central Connecticut State University chose six key indicators to rank literacy. These included newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment and Internet resources.

Overall, the top 10 most literate (and wired) cities included:

1—Minneapolis, Minn.
2—Seattle, Wash.
3—St. Paul, Minn.
4—Denver, Colo.
5—Washington, D.C.
6—St. Louis, Mo.
7—San Francisco, Calif.
8—Atlanta, Ga.
9—Pittsburgh, Pa.
10—Boston, Mass.

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Norad tracks Santa

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Ghoulish Science Fun This Halloween

Stephanie Bianchi of the National Science Foundation Library always has an interesting set of links concerning how science and Halloween intermingle...

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I'd like to use this blog to send out announcement of stuff that might be of interest to science and engineering students and faculty at the University of Denver.