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...when I was elected attorney general to then becoming, in a very twisted way, a celebrity." He went on to note that everything that is good and bad about him is now visible for the entire world to see and discuss - his own reality-TV show indeed. "It's weird," he said. "I feel as though my life - have you seen The Truman Show, that movie? - I kind of feel as though that's my life...
...Vancouver Games, but the event, which pits four skiers simultaneously against one another over an undulating course, drew millions of television viewers. London organizers have been busy drawing up marketing plans to help push the lower-profile events. Vancouver may have given them some ideas. (See pictures of weird sports...
...burgers. It's convergent evolution. The best burgers are the simplest. Through painful trial and error, the burger barons have learned that the old ways are the best. And yet, out there, some brilliant young chef is thinking of a way to make a better burger, not by piling weird things on top, adding locavore cheeses that nobody likes or using grass-fed beef with no more juiciness than a withered cadaver. No, that young man or woman - and they may be out there now, building a "Hallelujah" chorus on Yelp - will find a way to do for the hamburger...
...just pretend my dog does all that. Which, as weird as that is, still doesn't make me as weird as people who actually do it, such as those who features their pets on the websites Hipster Puppies and Hipster Kitty. Both combine two of the Internet's favorite things: cute animals and making fun of hipsters. If they could somehow incorporate people falling down, they might be the most popular sites on the Web. (Watch TIME's video about Ben Huh, creator of the websites LOLcats and Fail Blog...
...after the researchers controlled for socioeconomics. What's new in Kanazawa's paper is a provocative theory about why intelligence might correlate with liberalism. He argues that smarter people are more willing to espouse "evolutionarily novel" values - that is, values that did not exist in our ancestral environment, including weird ideas about, say, helping genetically unrelated strangers (liberalism, as Kanazawa defines it), which never would have occurred to us back when we had to hunt to feed our own clan and our only real technology was fire. (See the top 10 religion stories...