The Daily Beast has made an annual tradition of using data on education (e.g., % population with degrees) and intellectual environment (e.g., libraries per capita, year-to-date nonfiction book sales) to rank the smartest major metropolitan areas in the United States.  This year Rochester cracked the top 10,  just behind Washington, D.C. and just ahead of Portland, Oregon (take heart Portland, in my book you’re still leading the nation in hipsters per capita).