In honor of the Register’s fantastic new Web site, I’m back to posting the same kind of witty, um, witticisms you’ve come to expect over the years. Like this:
Apparently, the Brainy McBrainiacs over at Yale have discovered something that Simpsons fans have known all along: “Even infants can tell the difference between naughty and nice playmates, and know which to choose, a new study finds. Babies as young as 6 to 10 months old showed crucial social judging skills before they could talk, according to a study by researchers at Yale University’s Infant Cognition Center published in Thursday’s journal Nature.”
How else to explain baby Maggie’s visceral repulsion at the sight of Gerald, her monobrowed nemesis? In fact, the Infant Cognition Center staff was probably sitting around watching old Simpsons episodes when inspiration struck. And now they’re all on a tenure track. D’oh!