Nov. 21, 2011 at 3:13pm with 9 notes
Reblogged from csmonitor
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Sarcasm seems to exercise the brain more than sincere statements do. Scientists who have monitored the electrical activity of the brains of test subjects exposed to sarcastic statements have found that brains have to work harder to understand sarcasm.
— Richard Chin in Smithsonian Magazine, part of his story “The Science of Sarcasm? Yeah, Right.”  One of the gems included in Monitor writer Scott Baldauf’s regular Good Reads column. (via csmonitor)

See? Sarcastic people are smarter. Or, you know, whatever.

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