Everyone remembers the story of the tortoise and the hare, but no one seems to have learned the lesson it teaches: Uh, no. I'm pretty sure everyone learned th

Everyone remembers the story of the tortoise and the hare, but no one seems to have learned the lesson it teaches: Uh, no. I'm pretty sure everyone learned the apparent lesson that "slow-and-steady wins the race". Of course, that lesson is seriously incorrect since almost every race is won by the fastest. The real lesson is that pride goes before a fall. That is not what the article is suggesting. Daniel Kahneman, the only non-economist to be awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. Uh, no. John Nash, the only economics "Nobel prize" winner most people could actually name, is also not an economist. And then the article goes on to suggest that brain teasers and their ability to tease brains--even MIT brains--have real-world implications. Okay, whatever.