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And according to new research, this has nothing to do with human influence: Monkeys in the wild constantly get wasted on their own. “For the first time, we have been able to show, without a shadow of a doubt, that wild primates, with no human interference, consume fruit-containing ethanol,” said primatologist Christina Campbell of California State University, Northridge, in a press release. The study follows up on the work of University of California, Berkeley biologist Robert Dudley, who published “The Drunken Monkey Hypothesis” in 2000 and was involved in the recent experiment. The theory originally proposed that “patterns of alcohol use by humans in contemporary environments may thus reflect a maladaptive co-option of ancestral nutritional strategies.” -- Mel Magazine

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, Ginni Thomas, urged Republican leader Mark Meadows to illegally overturn national election results that favored the Democrats and seated President Joe Biden. Federal statutes require justices to recuse themselves from cases where their impartiality could be questioned. But there is no specific means to enforce this statute, which is why Justice Thomas can ignore it, including the actions of his wife. He already has failed to disclose his wife’s income from political groups, although he amended this after being exposed. -- Santa Fe New Mexican

Wendy Murawski, executive director and Eisner Endowed Chair at the Center for Teaching & Learning at California State University, Northridge, said that any expectations about tardiness and associated repercussions should be documented in advance in class syllabi, which act as “contracts” between students and faculty members. -- Inside Higher Ed

"For the first time, we have been able to show, without a shadow of a doubt, that wild primates, with no human interference, consume fruit containing ethanol," says primatologist Christina Campbell from California State University, Northridge. -- Science Alert