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...Clay Aiken, Michael Jackson, and Weight Watchers spared neither each other nor the bingo players. When the first winner went to the front of the room to get her card verified and forgot to bring her card, Ginger shot out: "Good thing she's cute. She's not that smart...
...love crossword puzzles?WS: I love crosswords, first of all, because they take you into every field of human knowledge so you are always learning. And most of all I like the people I come into contact with through puzzles. People that like puzzles tend to be smart, well-read, well-rounded.5.FM: Did anything change about puzzle enthusiasts and the puzzling world after your movie “Wordplay”? WS: The American Crossword Puzzle Tournament is held every year, and this past March was our 30th one, and it was the first one after the movie...
...using engineering techniques. “The idea is to take biologic principles, understand them, and then try to resimulate it...and come up with a new, synthetic, man-made material that replicates these biological principles,” Aizenberg says. “I am looking at these smart biological materials from the point of view not of a biologist but of a physical scientist and engineer.”In addition to the brittle star, Aizenberg cites the example of the Venus’ flower basket, a deep-sea sponge that not only builds...
...TENET: Look, first of all, torture doesn't work. Second of all, the vast preponderance of data, it's not about the harshness of the techniques, it's about smart people. We don't believe in torture. Look, this is a country of laws. There's authorization. There's legal opinions. We did this by the numbers. We corroborate this stuff. We have other sources. There are plot lines that are broken. They give us enormous access and understanding of al-Qaeda, insights into operatives that we didn't know about. Enormous value to us. Huge insight. You want...
...answer wasn’t in how smart, necessarily, people were,” he says. “It had much more to do with how they approached their own fallibility. There are some at the top of the bell curve who have abilities to look at their flaws and ask hard questions not only about their flaws, but at the systems around them, and then to continually focus effort and resources on how to overcome those flaws...