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...self-identification is often misleading; do kids really know what it means to be liberal? The GSS data are instructive here: Kanazawa found that more-intelligent GSS respondents (as measured by a quick but highly reliable synonym test) were less likely to agree that the government has a responsibility to reduce income and wealth differences. In other words, intelligent people might like to portray themselves as liberal. But in the end, they know that it's good to be the king...
Sell, Tooby and Cosmides found that men (but not women) with the most physical strength were the most likely to feel entitled to good treatment, anger easily, view themselves as successful in winning conflicts and believe in physical force as a tool for resolving interpersonal and international conflicts. Women who thought of themselves as pretty showed the same pattern of greater aggression. All of which means that if you are a liberal who believes you're smarter than conservatives, you probably shouldn't bring that up around them. You might not like them when they're angry...
...eight years after he was captured off the coast of Iceland - he and two other killer whales drowned a trainer during a performance at Sealand of the Pacific in Vancouver. In 1999, a man who trespassed in SeaWorld after hours and apparently jumped in the whale tank was found dead the next morning, lying across Tilikum's back. Is the big whale a bad seed? At least one marine-mammal expert thinks that yes, that's at least part of the answer...
...back in, think again: a certain foxy genius sported the coif this Saturday with poor results, garnering a total of zero successful shots out of five. The quarrel between yours truly and a certain Somerville-based academic institution inched toward a resolution this weekend after Grandpa finally found his chair. Apparently someone had locked it in the bathroom and all Jumbo needed...
When the Jumbos—a 15-dollar cab ride away (or, in non-Harvard terms, two stops up the Red Line)—found out about FM’s trip to Somerville on Valentine’s Day, they took the opportunity to show their fellow elite New England private school plenty of Internet love. Below, the warmest of the warm from the comments on The Crimson Web site...