The End is Near, of Intelligent Life, Anyway

A friend, who is a grad student at a major, well-respected university – names of student and school withheld, for reasons which will soon be obvious – reports that a student in a class she T.A.’s asked for a word definition during an exam. The word: “monogamy.” Shocked, my friend asked the student if he had really never heard that word before. He replied that he had not.

It really is the end of the world…