How The Simpsons Called an Economics Nobel Before Prediction Markets Existed
In a few weeks the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will name the 2026 Nobel laureate in economics, and the guessing is already under way. A cartoon got there first. In a 2010 episode of The Simpsons, the ten-year-old Milhouse fills in a children's Nobel betting pool and picks for economics an MIT professor, Bengt Holmström. Six years later Holmström won it. The prophecy was really a forecast, and this is how The Simpsons does it.
QS World University Ranking 2027 – Beyond The Top 10 The US Slips as Asia Surges
At first glance, the QS World University Rankings 2027 are a study in predictability. MIT is first, as it has been since 2012. Imperial, Stanford, Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge follow, as they always do. But look one layer down and the table is anything but inert.
BlueSky Ranking of University Rankings 2025/26
Results of the big four university rankings - THE QS, US News and ARWU - can vary wildly. That makes the BlueSky Ranking of University Rankings so powerful. By aggregating the results of all four league tables, it delivers a composite picture of who is truly on top in global academia. The 2025/26 results are telling when compared to three years ago.
BlueSky Ranking Of University Rankings 2022/23 – Europe
The BlueSky Thinking Ranking of University Rankings 2022/23 - Europe is the first ever compilation of the four major global university rankings - THE, QS, USNews and ARWU Shanghai - to assess the overall performance of the top 50 universities in Europe.