{"id":282,"date":"2004-11-14T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-14T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/a-handy-finding-chart\/"},"modified":"2004-11-14T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-14T19:16:00","slug":"a-handy-finding-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/14\/a-handy-finding-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"A handy finding-chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, being a light-rather-than-heat kind of guy, I can resist the temptation to link to red-state bashing (like, say, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2109218\/\">Jane Smiley&#8217;s Slate essay<\/a>). But this isn&#8217;t bashing, it&#8217;s just a map! Raw data in easily digested graphical form, completely free of ideological influence. <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au\/~lambert\/cgi-bin\/blog\/academia\/number36.html\">Tim Lambert<\/a> has noticed that the THES list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-1343642,00.html\">world&#8217;s top universities<\/a> is dominated by U.S. institutions, and has produced a handy guide for locating where they are.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/images\/topusunis.png\" \/><\/center><br \/>Of course, if <a href=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.blogspot.com\/2004_04_01_preposterousuniverse_archive.html#108155901822016039\">David Horowitz<\/a> has his way and unqualified conservatives are legislated into university positions, maybe we can even things out by removing top-ranked universities from the U.S. entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, being a light-rather-than-heat kind of guy, I can resist the temptation to link to red-state bashing (like, say, Jane Smiley&#8217;s Slate essay). But this isn&#8217;t bashing, it&#8217;s just a map! Raw data in easily digested graphical form, completely free of ideological influence. Tim Lambert has noticed that the THES list of the world&#8217;s top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}