You only need to read the first two paragraphs of The Naked Ape to understand why it was so controversial when it debuted in 1967 and why it wound up on lists of banned books deemed “anti-Christian” by school boards. Morris, a zoologist, defines humans as hairless apes; he explores the conflict between our animal impulses and our loftier aspirations as matters of biology, not morality. We are the most sexual of primates, he says, and that sexuality has shaped modern civilization — not the other way around. Read More...
My very amateurish work as a statistician turned out to be pretty on the money, if I do say so. A few weeks ago, at the Major League Baseball All-Star Break, I took a look at which teams paid proportionally the least—and the most—for their wins. Seeing as cheapskates are always concerned with value and wise spending, the idea was to figure out what clubs is getting the most bang for their bucks. Read More...
Chris Hondros / Getty ImagesThe University of Colorado Boulder goes up in smoke. Then what explains that mysterious cloud of smoke?
The University of Colorado at Boulder, recently ranked by Playboy as the top party school for its culture of “reefer madness,” is also known for hosting one of the nation’s largest public tributes to Mary Jane.
Though pot is only legal in Colorado for medical purposes, thousands of students—wearing green shirts promoting pot—congregate on the CU grounds on April 20 (4/20) to light up in unison. Read More...
