The nature of the media beast

Interesting discussion on the nature of media today, and the tendency toward driving traffic via the information equivalent of Twinkies. Below are my top 10 posts since moving to Discover Magazine measured by visits. The numbers to the right is the ratio of visits of the post over the past 2 years to the rough number of visits in an average day on this weblog.

1	People of class drink alcohol	41.8
2	Verbal intelligence by demographic	18.6
3	1 in 200 men direct descendants of Genghis Khan	14.8
4	Verbal vs. mathematical aptitude in academics	11.0
5	Atheism as mental deviance	7.8
6	Genetics & the Jews	7.7
7	How Ashkenazi Jewish are you?	6.2
8	Why Tibetans breathe so easy up high	5.7
9	No Romans needed to explain Chinese blondes	5.0
10	Facebook finally plateaus in 2011!	4.6