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# Monday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/20141/
- Published: 2011-07-04T06:12:45.000Z
- Updated: 2011-07-04T06:12:45.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

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Happy Fourth of July. I don't blog much on the holidays because people don't surf much on the holiday. For today, I have just two things:

(1) This story of a stupid experiment from the 1970s (were there any good experiments from that decade . . . or from any decade of the twentieth century, for that matter?): [The Tragic Tale of a Chimp Raised as a Boy](http://nymag.com/movies/features/project-nim-2011-6/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Summary: A Columbia University professor thought that, if a chimp were raised like a human child, it would break down the walls between the two species. If you want more information, click the link, but this is the most notable excerpt for me:

> Terrace needed a human mother who would care for an infant chimpanzee. He found her in former student Stephanie LaFarge, who, with her husband, agreed to raise two-week-old Nim alongside their seven children in an Upper West Side townhouse. LaFarge did indeed treat Nim like any other American boy, right down to breast-­feeding him.

I couldn't imagine bringing a chimp into my seven-child house, much less doing it from a townhouse in NYC. Pretty wild . . . and so was the chimp. By age two, he turned aggressive:

> Apes are not nearly intelligent enough to comprehend or modify their far superior strength. “Being just twice as strong as humans would be superhuman,” says Marsh. “When it's five times or seven times? You don't want to f\*\*\* with them by any means whatsoever."

(2) When visiting this post, did you immediately recognize the picture? I suspect you did, which is why TDE now has a Facebook page. [Link](http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/The-Daily-Eudemon/127077970711928). I'm not sure why I set it up, but I guess I kinda view Facebook as a phenomenon unto itself. Its reach has grown so long that, if a thing is worth doing, it's worth Facebooking.

For now, I'm just posting brief stories that don't merit an actual blog post. At times, I'll cut-and-paste directly from TDE. No matter, the content here won't be compromised.