Popular kids in high school may have higher incomes later in life, according to a study released on Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private research organization in Cambridge, Mass. News of the report has taken the web by storm.

In response to this development in the eternal popular-kid vs. nerd struggle, Bloomberg Businessweek caught up with Steve Zacharias, writer of the 1984 classic filmRevenge of the Nerds and now a teacher at Columbia College Chicago and DePaul University.

(Source: businessweek.com)