I'm A Freakin' Dead Man

Apparently, reaction time and longevity are highly coordinated.

The ancient Greeks imagined three Fates - one spun the thread of life, the second measured its length, and the third snipped it off. Science has tried to provide more plausible (if less poetic) reasons for why some of us live longer than others. Now two researchers in Scotland have made a discovery even the Greeks couldn't have imagined: Reaction time may be a core indicator of long life.

I have the reaction time of a slug. It's why I suck at sports and dodging bullets.

But I found this correlation interesting...

The new research builds on earlier studies showing that people with lower IQs tend to die at younger ages than those with higher IQs.

I thought that was a phenomenon known as Darwinism...