The last few days I’ve been walking around feeling like everything is hopeless, boring, and that I’ve run out of ideas which were never even good in the first place. At a certain point I had to ask myself, “Things are pretty good, so what exactly what the fuck do I have to be so sour about?” At that point I realized it was mid-terms week, and I remembered that this happens to me every quarter (and every quarter I’m baffled as to why it’s happening again). It’s pretty simple, really: I’m tired. I need a vacation. With hookers. And lots of blow. Just kidding, I hate blow.
At any rate, it was nice to wake up to an article on one of my favorite blogs, io9.com, about a new study that suggests chimpanzees overwhelmingly demonstrate prosocial behavior, that is, generosity and empathy towards each other. Previous studies had suggested exactly the opposite, but the authors of this study, after having observed the behaviors of chimps in the wild, came to suspect that the method of testing had negatively biased the outcome due to overcomplication. So they did a new study; the results were the antithisis of the previous studies.
