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We tried to find a unifying theme for this Week in Review — really, we did! — but ultimately, summer’s here, and sometimes, a scattershot title’s all you got. Without further ado, let’s dive in to what happened last week.

Professor Charles Gross, San Quentin inmates, and a sheep brain!

Professor Charles Gross, San Quentin inmates, and a sheep brain!

1. MONKEYS!

Princeton is in trouble again for its treatment of primates in lab research; this time, the university was cited by the USDA for six violations, regarding the feeding and water schedule for the monkeys. New PU spokesman Martin Mbugua, asked about the violations, said, “Princeton’s approach to animal care is based on a commitment … to ensure that our facilities make use of established best practices. Only animals that are well cared for can provide beneficial scientific data and help achieve research goals and outcomes.”

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Online, you cant read my, cant read my, cant read my poker face.

Online, you can't read my, can't read my, can't read my poker face.

Boring enough to make Princeton students play poker against each other. Via the Times:

Allan Rubin, a professor of geosciences at Princeton University, banned laptops in his 120-strong class on natural disasters after discovering that some of the students were playing online poker during his lectures.

“What I found, and it was getting worse over the years, was that a larger and larger fraction of the students just had their heads buried in their laptops as I lectured,” he said.“I know from teaching assistants who were wandering around when the laptops were open that they were surfing the Web. They were playing poker with each other.”

I’ve got money on the guy sitting in the back.

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