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It’s no mystery that students at Harvard are weird. If we were smart enough to get in, something must be wrong with us. But many of the neuroses of the undergraduate student body extend beyond perfectionism or compulsive spell-checking. You know how some people have Freudian complexes? Well Harvard students have complexes often so deep and carefully hidden that they only reveal themselves after several weeks of dating (“dating” is a loose term at Harvard; what I really mean is “a few dance floor makeouts and late-night...

Author: By Julia M. Spiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Avoid These Crazy Harvardians | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...they get that way? Are they just smarter than everybody else? That always helps. But they're not just IQ-smart. It's a puzzle-solving facility. The most important quality in these doctors is that they just know so much. One of the doctors that I go to when I'm stumped has a screen saver on his computer that says, "Have you kept up with the literature today?" These are people who are constantly learning and adding to an already sizable knowledge base. And they have seen a lot. That's very important, because a disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Doctor Behind House | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...previous box-office champ, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, by nearly $15 million. The results, which far exceeded industry expectations, instantly turns Blomkamp, the 29-year-old from Johannesburg, into the new prince of a town 10,000 miles away. Hollywood loves a guy who makes a smart, popular movie that in three days earns considerably more than its skimpy $30 million budget. Already the town is whispering its favorite word - franchise - in Blomkamp's ear. District 10 cannot be far behind. (Read TIME's interview with Neill Blomkamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Office Weekend: District 9 Shows Prawn Power | 8/16/2009 | See Source »

...Read "Baby Einsteins: Not So Smart After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Look Inside Babies' Minds | 8/14/2009 | See Source »

toddlers • dogs are at least as smart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 8/14/2009 | See Source »

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