Smarter Than Your Average Bear
From today's Strib (I know, I know. The registration blows, but it's the only place I could find the story) we learn:
While it's sometimes hard to puzzle through why we live here at all, Men's Health Magazine has determined that Minneapolis and St. Paul are among the smartest cities in the United States.
In its current publication, the magazine listed Minneapolis No. 1 in "intelligence" and St. Paul No. 4 in its ranking of 101 cities. Criteria included the number of bachelor's degrees per capita, the number of universities, inhabitants' SAT scores, the number of Nobel Prize winners for physics and medicine born within the cities' borders, and state creativity scores as assessed by a group led by the man who wrote "The Rise of the Creative Class." A guy named Florida. Richard Florida.
The rankings caught some by surprise.
"Really?" said Jim Blackmore, national marketing director for MENSA, the international brainiacs' club. "Where does Boston fall in that ranking?"
Answer: second. Denver was third. Seattle (5) and San Francisco (6) were the only other cities to receive A+ grades.
Hmmm....I wonder where Los Angeles ranks? Or Cleveland? I tried in vain to find the complete list at the Men's Health web site, which is one of the poorest magazine sites that I've ever come across.
Believe it or not, I used to subscribe to Men's Health some years ago, before realizing that it was nothing more than a male version of Cosmo. How many articles can you read about rock hard abs anyway?
UPDATE- Paul e-mails with an explanation:
They must have sent someone to Keegan's on a Thursday night.
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