Unconventional World Records

The Star reported on 26th January 2007 that a Mr Wong, 34 was a college principal in Singapore who was also a pimp. He owned several colleges offering language, culinary and cooking courses. But in the evenings, he kept busy by overseeing his vice operations at his 2 nightclubs. (more…)

This is a bit old, but I think that would go to John Carpenter, the first winner of a million dollars in any edition of the show.

He managed it without using any of his 3 lifelines, except for the final question, which he didn’t need help at all, but used a lifeline anyway for a totally unexpected purpose. (more…)

To qualify, you need to get the first question wrong, live on camera.

Apparently quite a few people achieved this dubious feat and embarrass themselves in the process.

One of them is Chase Sampson from Nashville. He’s not the first Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’s player to go out at USD100 and certainly won’t be the last.

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As published by Newsweek, 13 Aug 2006

Criteria:

- 50% from equal parts:

• the number of highly-cited researchers in various academic fields,
• the number of articles published in Nature and Science
• the number of articles listed in the ISI Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities indices.

- 10%: percentage of international faculty

- 10%: percentage of international students

- 10%: citations per faculty member (using ISI data)

- 10%: ratio of faculty to students

- 10% from library holdings (number of volumes).

Top 10:

1. Harvard   
2. Stanford
3. Yale
4. California Institute of Technology   
5. Berkeley   
6. Cambridge   
7. MIT
8. Oxford
9. San Francisco   
10. Columbia 

Honourable mentions:

14 Duke

15 Princeton

16 Tokyo

17 Imperial College

19 Cornell

20 Chicago

21 UCL

Mine’s at no.70

source

Tags: top 100 global universities, universities. top universities

http://www.suggestica.com

interesting discussion at /.

amongst others, attempts to answer the question:

“is it worth pursuing a computer science degree, and beyond, nowadays?”