# I'm Too Sexy For My Brain

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 13, 2005, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-sexy-for-my-brain/335396 "2005-12-13T08:04:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-sexy-for-my-brain/335396/1 "2005-12-13T08:04:20Z")

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Well, not me, but at least [one Nobel Prize winner is!](http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=051212&cat=strange&st=stranged8eerus80&src=ap)

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> Physics Nobel Prize winner Tony Leggett didn’t hesitate when he was asked to pose as Mr. January in a pinup calendar.
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> Not your typical pinup, Leggett’s buff brain fronts a 2006 calendar from the University of Illinois that features some of the school’s famous and not-so-famous gray matter.
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> The calendar uses MRIs to show the brains of a dozen people who work or study at the school’s Urbana-Champaign campus, including Chancellor Richard Herman, women’s basketball coach Theresa Grentz and Kai Nielsen, a carpenter in the campus maintenance shop.

_Braaiins! Braaaiiinns!_