Crazy like a Chimp
November 29th, 2008 by Nick SaintApropos of nothing, here is a video of a chimp showing up a college student on a memory test. A few numbers are shown on a monitor for a fraction of a second, then replaced with white squares. The test taker is then supposed to touch those squares in the order of the numbers they replaced. The college student, understandably, cannot do this very well at all. The chimp, on the other hand, very calmly owns it:
November 29th, 2008 at 1:21 am
[...] Akhbar’s recent post reminds me of one of the highlights of Fox’s original programming: Man vs. Beast, in which experts of the human and animal kingdoms squared off in various contests. A sprinter raced a giraffe, a team of midgets went up against an elephant in a plane tugging competition (really), and here world champion hot dog eater Takeru Kobayashi tries to outeat a bear: [...]