It’s good to see that I still have time to become an evil genius — at least according to Geniuses, Criminals Do Best Work in Their 30s:
Geniuses and criminals may not seem to have much in common but they both do their best work in their 30s — and mainly to impress the opposite sex.
Let’s just hope, for humanity’s sake, that no one explains to all those young scientists that chicks don’t dig Nature papers.
When Satoshi Kanazawa, of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, studied biographies of prominent, mostly male scientists he discovered that they made their key discovery before their mid 30s, around the same age that criminal behavior peaks.He believes the male competitive urge to attract females is a driving force for the scientific and criminal achievements, according to New Scientist magazine.
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“Kanazawa also found that marriage dampens the drive in both arenas,” the magazine added.
Hmm…that whole criminal mastermind thing has been looking less attractive to me lately…