And they rallied with him as a slow-witted Southerner in the 1994 runaway hit Forrest Gump.

FORBES: Hollywood

His rather slow-witted replacement maintains the fiction that the clans respect the government's ownership of mineral resources.

ECONOMIST: Somaliland

Chicory came up with a way to embed this software trick directly into a half-millimeter-square section of a silicon chip, making an otherwise slow-witted cell phone chip act like a genius.

FORBES: Hardwired

Chicory came up with a way to embed this software trick directly into a half-millimeter-square section of a silicon chip, making an otherwise slow-witted cell phone chip behave like a genius.

FORBES: Hardwired

"Starting Over" sounds as if it were made by cavemen or perhaps a group of slow-witted 7-year-olds with access to their parents' Vandals albums but it possesses a weirdly hypnotic allure.

NPR: Black Lips: 'Starting Over,' Against All Logic

Until the past decade or so, it had been accepted wisdom in the genetics community that only the tiniest percentage of the human genome contains the instructions that determine how we look, feel and act whether we (or our ancestral population group) are more likely to be grumpy or gregarious, impetuous or cautious, generous or a Grinch, a speedster or a marathoner, slow-witted or a math ace.

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