A regular contributor into the column “we achieved it for Science. within the week-end, we invested a while with my dear friend Jack” Jack is completely frighteningly brilliant–or at the least, i am constantly half-terrified, whenever I’m that I won’t be able to keep up: He has a B.A. from Brown and a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature from Duke with him. Yet, he is no geek: When he speaks, you are mesmerized because of the whole tales he informs, surprised by the books he waxes therefore eloquent about this, and laughing during the jokes he is constantly making. Plus, he is therefore rakishly handsome–with a thick swirl of ginger locks, a toothy look, and high cheekbones–that i usually have actually an instant of elevated heart-beating once I first see him again. (more…)