“It’s not that a lower-class person, no matter what, is going to be less [intelligent] than an upper-class person. It’s all about the social context the person lives in,..."

Substitute 'intelligent' with 'emotionally perceptive',

I would have given the homeless guy at least $1k reward if at all possible.

What a good guy!

And once they find the Graviton, this will all be up in the air.

"you may have just paid for a class to get some knowlege and then paid to not have the knowlege you initially paid for."

-exactly.

If you don't have the chops under your belt and learned when the rubber meets the road and you actually NEED that well of training and context, your actual performance will suffer greatly.

Besides, good grades are no guarantee of genius.

The Valedictorian of my HS class was universally agreed upon as an airhead, a parrot and a ditz; especially among the guys who would go on to work at NASA.

@Jill Harness: Good point. It is especially smart that she didn't make something that was only fantasy but put the two halves into the same real world. Very smart.

@gryt: Erm, no.

What a lot of these guys are doing is probably: keeping their metabolism going by "grazing" instead of the traditional 3 big meals per day.

Grazing creates a more stable blood-sugar environment and keeps your metabolism going.

Generally, a non-obese person would eat 12 calories per pound of bodyweight per day as maintenance and then add an activity percentage to that. -->Hardcore trainers eating like crazy.

But to address your point, you cannot create a Calorie Deficit of more than 10% without your body going into Starvation Mode and slowing down your metabolism.

You have to know your cal allowance numbers and eat as precisely as possible; try not to go too over or under at each meal or with cheats. And bad food is still bad food, regardless of a silly Twinkie article.

Even Lyle McDonald himself, who is THE GUY on nutrition, now makes these same simple "eat less than you burn" recs to almost everyone. And Lyle is the guy who actually IMPROVED ON Dan Duchaine's CKD masterpiece diet, "BodyOpus".

@Morgan: Actually, when women are ovulating I think the studies say they prefer more masculine faces.

In WWII, the Brits tried so hard to gain a competitive advantage in the night-vision of their pilots, they ate so many carrots that their skin took on an orange hue.

I like strawberry better!

You're right they need a control, but they used 27 photos, not just the above 2.

I'd say symmetry plays a HUGE part.

When Zoe Caldwell was on Charlie Rose's show around the time of her performance in "Medea", she said the same thing.

Shakespearean English would have sounded much more like average American than it would British.

I think she said that you get the sound of modern British because one of their kings (George, I think) was German and couldn't pronounce English words properly, so instead of correcting him, they all tried to sound just like him.

-Same way the Spanish mispronounce their Bs, Ths and such because of one/more of their own kings; -Castillian lisp, I think.

Oh, and I think the current Queen of England is actually more German than she is English. Her real family name is Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, not Windsor.

Then who would all the recent Manhattanites sneer at?

If LI, Brooklyn and Queens no longer qualified as B&T people, I think the pseudobourgeoisie would absolutely crap themselves.

They should differentiate between Lust and Attraction in there also.

The high-speed falling in love they refer to is most-likely a woman being quickly ATTRACTED to someone when she sees them,

and then just rewriting history after the relationship worked out.

They should have gone with the second ha.

At least "Rumble in the Jungle" has the same amount of syllables.

The only thing worse than Internet Grammar Nazis are Internet Kitten-Box Quantity Fullness-Ratio Nazis.

And if Maru disagrees with you, then that makes you a bad person: http://sisinmaru.blog17.fc2.com/blog-entry-681.html , http://sisinmaru.blog17.fc2.com/blog-entry-679.html

:P