[NU Sports] football and brains

[CHerron604 at aol.com]

I read that same article - I wish they had cited a reference on the '20%  
believe the Sun orbits the Earth'
 
Has anyone ever seen a source on that ?  (not that I don't believe  it...)
 
On a more puzzling note...would we call it irony if our great win over  
Minnesota shattered them so totally, that they lost out for the season - giving  
Michigan needed confidence for this week's game ?  Helping Iowa to 8  wins and 
Wisconsin to 7 wins ?  Dropping us from the Alamo bowl to the  Insight bowl ?
 
Chuck Herron   Tech '85
 
 
In a message dated 11/11/2008 7:59:27 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
MHRJGScott at aol.com writes:

First of  all I would like to thank all the listers for not getting into   
politics during this happy time in America, but I would like to comment  on  
a SI 
article which talked about "the revenge of the nerds"  eggheads, and other  
wimp-like braniaks which were having good  season, CATS!!, Duke, Stanford, 
Rice,  
Vandy, etc. Just where does it  say that a person with a high IQ can not kick 
 
some butt.
I hope  our new Chicago guy can do what he says and from the NYT:

"Maybe, just  maybe, the result will be a step away from the  
anti-intellectualism  that has long been a strain in American life. Smart and 
 educated  
leadership is no panacea, but we’ve seen recently that the converse —  a  
White House 
that scorns expertise and shrugs at nuance — doesn’t  get very far  either. 
We can’t solve our educational challenges when,  according to polls, 
Americans 
are approximately as likely to believe in  flying saucers as in evolution, 
and  when one-fifth of Americans  believe that the sun orbits the  Earth."
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