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Description: Dispatches from hipster suburbia. Weblog of Stephen Fraser: papa, husband, marketing consultant, trail runner, and... what?
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The NYT reports: Research suggests being smart can be unhealthy for an animal in an article titled Smarter Isn’t Better .
It turns out that from an evolutionary standpoint being smarter can work against you. In the case of fruit flies it actually leads to a shorter rather than a longer life.
I suppose this explains why it's natural to want to hit people from Mensa over the head with a baseball bat.
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