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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Are Liberals Smarter Than Conservatives? | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

...done. "I don't buy the idea that confinement is what was responsible for Tilikum," he says. "I prefer to see animals in nature, but when they were born in captivity or have been in captivity so long, that socialization is the only one they know." (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killer-Whale Tragedy: What Made Tilikum Snap? | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

...know what was going through the killer whale's head," says Chuck Tompkins, Brancheau's former supervisor. The fact, of course, is that we never can know such things - which is what will always make keeping such beasts in the first place the dangerous business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killer-Whale Tragedy: What Made Tilikum Snap? | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

Allston resident Harry Mattison, who is a member of the Harvard Allston Task Force, said he did not know what to make of the Work Team’s progress in the past couple of months...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Group Discusses Allston Plans | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

...don’t know the details of what they’re doing,” Mattison said. “I think everyone who is involved is sincere and committed to their work; I just don’t have a sense of what their work is and how it relates to the Allston community...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Group Discusses Allston Plans | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

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