5 Things to Mull Over the Weekend

1. Your dog could have a greater carbon pawprint than your SUV.

2. Cornell University is America’s best employer for workers over 50, according to the AARP. (MIT is No. 7, and George Mason University is No. 10.)

3. According to its 990 IRS form for the 2007-8 fiscal year, Nova Southeastern University spent $98,884 for “dolphins rental expenses.”

4. The University of Central Florida told a freshman basketball player, Marcus Jordan, that he could wear his father’s signature Nike Air Jordan-brand shoes while playing this season. But that promise is in jeopardy because the university has an exclusive $3-million contract with Adidas that obliges players and coaches there to wear that company’s apparel.

5. Two physicists at Stanford University have calculated the number of possible alternate universes in the multiverse to be 10^10^16.