Ouch!
Noted primatologist Frans de Waal, who studied the origin of empathy in chimpanzees, stops monkeying around:
Alright. This is funny.
Who is going to be “that guy” that points out that apes aren’t monkeys?
This guy?
Nitpick: As I see it, apes are cladistically monkeys, and wikipedia seems to agree with me. Simians and monkeys have the same scope, are therefore synonyms. All apes are monkeys/simians, but not all simians/monkeys are apes.
I’ll try not to accidentally ape him.
never mind.
Something tells me Kate Middleton will be a very popular pick in 2025.
Gimme a break! I was trying to come up with a good simian pun, at lunch in a noisy breakroom.
Owner of the Baltimore Orioles, Peter Angelos, has died at 94.
David Seidler, stutterer who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The King’s Speech.
Also…
But people focused more on her looks than on her ability.
Emanuel Lasker had the same burden.
Hawt
Daniel Kahneman will no longer think, neither fast nor slow:
I wonder if the news will trickle down.
Minimalist sculptor Richard Serra died. Basically, he leaned big slabs of rough metal against each other. This would make the people who had to walk around them unhappy, or in the case of the wife of an assistant who was killed in a collapse very unhappy.
Was that supposed to be art?
Minimalism had kind of a zen thing going for it. When it was combined with massive earth works it was really impressive. But it was eclipsed by high technology being applied to art. All major art is now produced with a dedicated IT department
Seeing reports that former Sen. Joe Lieberman has died at 82.