It’s again that time of year when we get to chuckle at the supreme idiocy of some of our fellow man and marvel at their backward ingenuity.
Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve human genome by accidentally removing themselves from it. Here’s a compilation of the winners for 2007 along with those dating back as far as 1995.
Always good for some laughs, these tales of voluntary gene pool pruning demonstrate that there may still be hope for civilization. I can’t help but wonder, though, if there isn’t some way to speed up the process.