"The Cost of Smarts"
Research on animal intelligence always makes me wonder just how smart humans are. Consider the fruit-fly experiments described in Carl Simmer's piece in the Science Times on Tuesday. Fruit flies who were taught to be smarter than the average fruit fly tended to live shorter lives. This suggests that dimmer bulbs burn longer, that there is an advantage to not being too terrifically bright
also, nerds are so uncool it makes my finger nails fall off.
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