We like our Humans and Politicians folksy and defiantly ignorant of things like science, book-learning, "hard" words, and facts, but meanwhile, we prefer phones, vacuum cleaners, dryers and jeans (they're smart! Microfibers "know how" to conform to your shape!) to be brainy and dazzle us with their intelligence.
Of course, that's always been the problem, hasn't it: how to be brainy and a babe -- how to quote Descartes without seeming like a dried-up prune, a geekess or, heaven forbid, masculine?
Such shows tend to be brainy and bookish.
"Mental Engineering" is not afraid to be brainy, even (gasp) academic.
The next Supreme Court justice ReprintsWhoever Mr Obama picks is sure to be brainy, honourable and young.
She has to be brainy but not come across that way.
As Mr Harry Hill would say: "What are the chances of that?" There is a touch of Sleepless in Seattle here, but David plays not merely an architect like Tom Hanks,but someone who has an all-in-one "design and construction" business, so he gets to be brainy and wear the Village People helmet.
Luckily, the minds of Ken and Greg Aspeslagh were brainy enough to figure out some hacks that enable video conferencing on the iPhone.
Although she is brainy enough to have graduated from the prestigious Bryn Mawr College, being beautiful has been Betty's ticket.
There's a lesson here that has had to be relearned periodically ever since David beat Goliath, which is that the key to winning a test of strength in which you're hopelessly outweighed is to be brainier than the other guy.
