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...Steve Pinker is the dumbest monkey. He eats shit all day,’” Cushman says. However, he adds that Laurie Santos—not Pinker—is the dumbest monkey. Ironic, as Cushman believes Santos may be “the smartest human.” Dan Weiss, while not the smartest monkey, may be the most innovative. According to Cushman, when monkeys Dan Weiss and Jay Kralick didn’t have the romantic chemistry that researchers had anticipated, Weiss began engaging in acts of self fellatio. “It?...
...that gloom is en vogue for a reason: happy people are boring. Harvard students aren’t all depressed because there is something wrong with them: they’re depressed because there is something to them. The Greeks had it right. They held that the smartest of men had the tendency to become the most depressed. Melancholia, the Greek term for “black bile,” was said to foster pensively intellectual thinkers. And in history, so many great leaders have been depressive or unpleasant. Abraham Lincoln’s melancholia often...
...sports based on the standard, ten of those teams having received perfect scores according to the rating.That’s fine and dandy, but, remind me again, when was the last time the Crimson won a Rose Bowl? Oh, right. 1920.You see, we might have some of the smartest teams in the nation, but when it comes to performance in the big-time sports, the moneymakers—the basketballs and footballs of the world—we come up short. Because what measures success in those arenas is wins, and a basketball team coming off its fourth straight...
...Abstainer: Arguably the smartest one in the entire group, The Abstainer secured herself a space in the blocking group in December and has since almost entirely disappeared, only periodically resurfacing so she isn’t assumed dead and thus removed. Only concerned with the fact that she remains in the group, she has thus avoided any and all drama concerning who does or does not. The Abstainer will likely be the only one to emerge from the blocking process still having all of her friends...
...lesson in humility and tolerance.” One correspondent even went so far as to suggest that I gormandize a particularly unappetizing portion of his anatomy. Uncomfortable, perhaps, but the kind spirit underlying the recommendation I appreciated nonetheless.Secure in my knowledge that I am not only the smartest, but also the most important, person alive, I could, I suppose, choose now to rest leisurely upon my laurels. Instead, I have elected to seize the moment and offer a second recommendation to an adoring readership. This time around, though, it may actually make sense.If I have learned anything...