“On their first full day of jury deliberations at the bribery trial of Senator Robert Menendez, a juror asked the judge a basic question: What is a senator?”

+ “After training, the sheep chose photos of familiar faces over unfamiliar ones significantly more often than not.” At Cambridge, researchers trained sheep to recognize celebrities. (And now, even they want to pull the wool over their eyes.)

+ I begged Twitter not to go to 280. But they didn’t listen: Twitter’s Character Assassination.