FREAK-est Links

• MIT turns 150 this month with some great stats: alumni have formed 25,800 companies with over 3 million employees.
• New study says women prefer sad men to happy ones.
• Last year, gas prices rose 34% whereas coffee prices rose 77%.
• An interactive map of wages in cities across the U.S.
• PhD Comics: entertaining explanation of PhD topics, this one on dark matter.
• A skeptical look at three wild fusion-energy schemes.
• New study: Democrat college professors more “egalitarian” in grading distribution than Republican counterparts.
• Bloomberg profiles Tyler Cowen.