<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Well, you know the story of the grad student who found a genie. The genie told him, “I can make you the sexiest man on earth, the wealthiest man on earth or the smartest man on earth. Choose!”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Being a grad student, the grad student said, “I want to be the smartest man on earth!”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">“Alakazam!” said the genie. And it was done.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">“Damn,” said the grad student, slapping his palm to his forehead. “So I SHOULD have gone with the money!"</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 14, 2015, at 8:55 AM, Dan <<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com" class="">danust2012@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Optima-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><span class="">So if intelligence doesn't lead to rational decisions and a better</span><br class=""><span class="">life, what does? Igor Grossmann, at the University of Waterloo in</span><br class=""><span class="">Canada, thinks we need to turn our minds to an age-old concept:</span><br class=""><span class="">"wisdom".</span><br class=""><span class="">--------------------------</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">BillK</span><br class=""></div></blockquote><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div style="font-family: Optima-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Seems to fit the old saw that the smarter you are, the better you be at rationalizing things, including your faults and prejudices.</div><div style="font-family: Optima-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Optima-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span class="">"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do." -- Benjamin Franklin</span></div><div style="font-family: Optima-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 20px; font-size: inherit;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: Optima-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 20px; font-size: inherit;" class="">Regards,</span></div><div style="font-family: Optima-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><font size="3" class=""><span style="line-height: 20px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><div class=""><font size="3" class=""><span style="line-height: 20px;" class="">Dan</span></font></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); 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