Does This Drive You Absolutely Bananas?

We proudly present this week’s Golden Fleece Award to the National Science Foundation, which torched a cool $171,361of your dollars creating video games for…monkeys.

These brainiacs concocted three video games that let primates pick among gambling strategies. They discovered (drum roll, please)…monkeys behave like humans! Just like the crazy brother in law who borrows your money to hit Three Rivers Casino, when monkeys get on a hot streak, they think they’ll stay on a hot streak! And they keep betting!

But here’re some things they never figured out:

• Why it’s stupid to design video games for monkeys
• Why it’s immoral to waste other people’s money designing video games for monkeys
• Why people who design video games for monkeys are probably dumber than the monkeys themselves.

If this doesn’t drive you bananas – nothing will.

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