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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

The Darwin Awards

The things I learn on the job ...

Just found out about the Darwin Awards in the course of verifying their existence while copyediting a book on paleontology:

Where Evolution Hits the Pavement

We salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who remove themselves from it. Of necessity, this honor is generally bestowed posthumously.







2 comments:

Dick Margulis said...

Katharine,

You really never ran across the Darwin Awards before? The annual awards announcement is eagerly awaited in cube farms everywhere and has been for over a decade. People who work in Dilbert World need occasional confirmation that their own lives are at least a little less bleak than somebody else's. You really have to get out more ;-)

Katharine O'Moore-Klopf said...

Yabbut I've been freelancing for over a decade, so I must have missed the awards' inception. :-)

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