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You can always have one of these.
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You can always have one of these.
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Awwwh, those poor, wonderful pachyderms. I don't know if I find this as tragic as I do because I've watched too many videos of elephant play behavior or because I can't help but picture a group of very sad Babars mourning their Celeste.
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On a day trip to France I bought a six-pack of 25 centilitre plastic bottles of white wine for 1 Euro. (About $1.20)
French wine has several categories. Ignoring the best the categories going downwards are:
Vin Du Pays - local wine
Vin Du Table - best left for cooking
Vin Du France - (If that is ALL it says) slightly better than antifreeze
But my six-pack was the last and worst - Vin Du Pays Divers (wine from several countries)
I wasted my Euro.
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As the nine-year old prodigy qualified to perform an appendectomy using a radio-knife because I studied the instrument and procedure in All About Great Medical Discoveries by David Dietz (1960), and as the man twenty-six years later responsible for marketing Lindsay Wagner's The Accupressure Facelift while head of Karl-Lorimar Video's How-To division in 1986, I am uniquely qualified to discuss all manner of surgical and non-surgical interventions to alter facial topography and return the skin and subcutaneous muscles from passé to pristine as a baby's butt.
That's why I'm so excited to tell you about Professor Anthony Barker's Improve Your Face By Making Faces (1903).
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Are you depressed because your depressor septi, depressor supercilii, depressor anguli oris, and depressor labii inferioris muscles have let you down and are making you look inferior to your once superior visage? Begone double-chins and puffy eyes! Say sayonara to those irrigation canals once fine wrinkles, let crow's feet take wing never to return, and bid fare-thee-well to the face that now horrifies when it stares back at you in the mirror.
Professor Barker, principal of New York City's School of Physical Culture (110 W. 42d St.), provides five exercises (with halftone examples of each) guaranteed to banish all that blemishes your facial appearance.
As the nine-year old prodigy qualified to perform an appendectomy using a radio-knife because I studied the instrument and procedure in All About Great Medical Discoveries by David Dietz (1960), and as the man twenty-six years later responsible for marketing Lindsay Wagner's The Accupressure Facelift while head of Karl-Lorimar Video's How-To division in 1986, I am uniquely qualified to discuss all manner of surgical and non-surgical interventions to alter facial topography and return the skin and subcutaneous muscles from passé to pristine as a baby's butt.
That's why I'm so excited to tell you about Professor Anthony Barker's Improve Your Face By Making Faces (1903).
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oHxUPpE2NMY/Uf543XN_YsI/AAAAAAAAMG8/4HiHSqJWtxY/s1600/face2.jpg
Are you depressed because your depressor septi, depressor supercilii, depressor anguli oris, and depressor labii inferioris muscles have let you down and are making you look inferior to your once superior visage? Begone double-chins and puffy eyes! Say sayonara to those irrigation canals once fine wrinkles, let crow's feet take wing never to return, and bid fare-thee-well to the face that now horrifies when it stares back at you in the mirror.
Professor Barker, principal of New York City's School of Physical Culture (110 W. 42d St.), provides five exercises (with halftone examples of each) guaranteed to banish all that blemishes your facial appearance.
- read the full article Rare Ten Cent Book Will Improve Your Face (from BOOKTRYST)
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These are the dangers of putting computers in objects that did not used to have computers.
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This bidet plays music, deodorizes, relaxes, and IT CAN BE HACKED.
O, woe! Beware, you prophets! Beware, you men of ideas, aloft in metropolitan skyscrapers, believing yourself apart, aloof, immune! There are invaders in your home, invaders on your tail, invaders in the last place you would think to look.
For, yesterday, we learned that toilets can be hacked.
The information security company Trustwave Holdings published an advisory regarding Satis-brand toilets. Satis are a top-of-the-line product of LAXIL, one of Japan's largest commode companies, and they're advertised in the US with the tagline "SATIS defines toilet innovation."
And indeed! How innovative they definitionally are. For not only does the commode sport a broad set of features standard in Nipponese toilets -- deodorizing capabilities, an automatic seat, a two nozzle bidet spray -- but also it can be controlled by an Android app.
A globalized, mobile-ready bidet for the app economy! Thomas Crapper smiles somewhere. The Satis seemed to symbolize a fit of defecation disruption as never before seen, such that Fast Company noted its arrival last December, asking "is [a toilet that can be controlled by a small computer which you sometimes hold next to your mouth] something that U.S. manufacturers should be looking at?"
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/science/assets_c/2013/08/intergrated_img01-thumb-570x160-128649.jpg
This bidet plays music, deodorizes, relaxes, and IT CAN BE HACKED.
O, woe! Beware, you prophets! Beware, you men of ideas, aloft in metropolitan skyscrapers, believing yourself apart, aloof, immune! There are invaders in your home, invaders on your tail, invaders in the last place you would think to look.
For, yesterday, we learned that toilets can be hacked.
The information security company Trustwave Holdings published an advisory regarding Satis-brand toilets. Satis are a top-of-the-line product of LAXIL, one of Japan's largest commode companies, and they're advertised in the US with the tagline "SATIS defines toilet innovation."
And indeed! How innovative they definitionally are. For not only does the commode sport a broad set of features standard in Nipponese toilets -- deodorizing capabilities, an automatic seat, a two nozzle bidet spray -- but also it can be controlled by an Android app.
A globalized, mobile-ready bidet for the app economy! Thomas Crapper smiles somewhere. The Satis seemed to symbolize a fit of defecation disruption as never before seen, such that Fast Company noted its arrival last December, asking "is [a toilet that can be controlled by a small computer which you sometimes hold next to your mouth] something that U.S. manufacturers should be looking at?"
- read the full article It Now Appears Possible to Hack a (Fancy, Japanese) Toilet (from The Atlantic)
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gravyrug - did you see this?
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When xkcd creator Randall Munroe first posted a new installment of his webcomic titled “Time” on March 25, it looked deceptively simple: a picture of two black and white stick figures, a man and a woman, sitting wordlessly on the ground. There was no story, no punchline, no words. 30 minutes later, the image changed; the figures shifted slightly. And they continued to change every half-hour for the next week–and every hour for months after that–slowly coalescing into a story as the two characters discovered disturbing changes in the landscape around them, and set out on an epic, time-lapsed journey to discover the truth about what was happening to their world.
Readers set out on a similar journey, although their path led not to the wild unknown, but rather back to the same URL where the mystery continued to unfold hour by hour. Who were these characters? Where were they? What did the story mean? Munroe offered no direct answers, instead seeding the panels with esoteric clues from botany, astronomy and geology. Soon, “Time” had developed a fanatical following that pored over every update pixel by pixel and gathered online to trade theories, decipher clues, and even write songs.
When xkcd creator Randall Munroe first posted a new installment of his webcomic titled “Time” on March 25, it looked deceptively simple: a picture of two black and white stick figures, a man and a woman, sitting wordlessly on the ground. There was no story, no punchline, no words. 30 minutes later, the image changed; the figures shifted slightly. And they continued to change every half-hour for the next week–and every hour for months after that–slowly coalescing into a story as the two characters discovered disturbing changes in the landscape around them, and set out on an epic, time-lapsed journey to discover the truth about what was happening to their world.
Readers set out on a similar journey, although their path led not to the wild unknown, but rather back to the same URL where the mystery continued to unfold hour by hour. Who were these characters? Where were they? What did the story mean? Munroe offered no direct answers, instead seeding the panels with esoteric clues from botany, astronomy and geology. Soon, “Time” had developed a fanatical following that pored over every update pixel by pixel and gathered online to trade theories, decipher clues, and even write songs.
- read the full article Creator of xkcd Reveals Secret Backstory of His Epic 3,099-Panel Comic (from Wired)
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A hungry bear will go just about anywhere – and do just about anything – to find food. But the black bears of Southern California can trace their lineage some 300 miles north, to ancestors whose antics got them kicked out of a national park.
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A November 16, 1933 Los Angeles Times column describes how a "truckload" of bears were released at Big Bear Lake.
On a mid-November day in 1933, seven men and one woman crowded around a pickup parked near Big Bear Lake, wooden crates stacked high in the bed.
The cargo came from Yosemite National Park, part of a pilot program that officials hoped would flourish in the forests of Southern California. The containers were opened and the group waited, a camera at the ready.
Then came the bears.
“One bear leaped from the open door of its cage, charged at the camera and when within a dozen feet of it, suddenly sat down and quietly studied the strange contraption,” a Los Angeles Times article reported, “allowing plenty of time for a picture before it scampered off into the woods.”
The six black bears that tumbled out of the crates and into the wild that day weren’t just any animals. Along with 21 others sent south from Yosemite, they were the forefathers of the bears that roam the San Bernardino and San Gabriel mountains today.
http://www.trbimg.com/img-51fac6b5/turbine/la-me-ln-southern-california-bears-photo/600
A November 16, 1933 Los Angeles Times column describes how a "truckload" of bears were released at Big Bear Lake.
On a mid-November day in 1933, seven men and one woman crowded around a pickup parked near Big Bear Lake, wooden crates stacked high in the bed.
The cargo came from Yosemite National Park, part of a pilot program that officials hoped would flourish in the forests of Southern California. The containers were opened and the group waited, a camera at the ready.
Then came the bears.
“One bear leaped from the open door of its cage, charged at the camera and when within a dozen feet of it, suddenly sat down and quietly studied the strange contraption,” a Los Angeles Times article reported, “allowing plenty of time for a picture before it scampered off into the woods.”
The six black bears that tumbled out of the crates and into the wild that day weren’t just any animals. Along with 21 others sent south from Yosemite, they were the forefathers of the bears that roam the San Bernardino and San Gabriel mountains today.
- read the full article Bad news bears (from The Los Angeles Times)
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Another entry for "2012 Best Canadian Cheese Fire Lede"
The smell of burned cheese lingered in the air following Sunday’s cheese factory fire southeast of Ottawa. With the blaze went Canada’s gold standard of cheese curds.
- read the full article Cheese factory catches fire in middle of Montreal’s Poutine Week (from Global News)
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The skyrocketing market value of yarchagumba, a rare fungus prized as an aphrodisiac, has led to turf wars—and possibly murder.
http://media.outsideonline.com/images/September2011_YarchagumbaFungusFeatured_08022011.jpg
It was back in August 2010 that I first heard about the deaths. A short Agence France-Presse story reported that the men had been murdered, the result of a dispute over yarcha*gumba, a rare and highly prized fungus. The Narpa, as the people of Nar are called, were picking the fungus in their home fields near Tibet when they ran across yarchagumba poachers from the fierce Gorkha tribe to the east. A couple weeks later, the district *police discovered two Gorkha men at the bottom of a steep escarpment; the other bodies were rumored to have been cut into pieces and thrown in a nearby river, but they were never found. Suspecting the inhabitants of Nar, the police arrested 70 men, nearly the village’s entire male population.
Yarchagumba looks like a shriveled brown chile pepper and is coveted as an aphrodisiac and medicinal cure-all. Literally translated as “summer grass, winter worm,” it forms when a parasitic fungus invades the burrowing larva of a ghost moth, transforms the *vital *organs into a cobweb-like mess, and then sends up a wispy sprout through the dead *insect’s head. The grisly process plays out across the Himalayas and the *Tibetan Plateau but only at the beginning of the monsoon and only on reclining slopes of grasses, shrubs, and milk vetch at the dizzying altitude of 10,000 to 16,500 feet. Thanks to a spike in global demand, mostly by Asian men looking to enhance their virility, a pound of yarcha*gumba now sells for as much as $50,000, more than the price of gold. *Profits from the fungus have transformed entire *villages, vexed government regulators, and even helped bankroll a communist insurgency. Nepal’s former Maoist rebels admit that taxing (read: *extorting) yarchagumba pickers was their main source of income in their decade-long war against the country’s monarchy.
I couldn’t believe what I was reading. I had visited Nepal often over the previous 15 years, even lived there for nearly a year, and had never heard of it. But as soon as I read about what the tittering international press dubbed the “Himalayan Viagra murders,” yarchagumba began popping up everywhere.
http://media.outsideonline.com/images/September2011_YarchagumbaFungusFeatured_08022011.jpg
It was back in August 2010 that I first heard about the deaths. A short Agence France-Presse story reported that the men had been murdered, the result of a dispute over yarcha*gumba, a rare and highly prized fungus. The Narpa, as the people of Nar are called, were picking the fungus in their home fields near Tibet when they ran across yarchagumba poachers from the fierce Gorkha tribe to the east. A couple weeks later, the district *police discovered two Gorkha men at the bottom of a steep escarpment; the other bodies were rumored to have been cut into pieces and thrown in a nearby river, but they were never found. Suspecting the inhabitants of Nar, the police arrested 70 men, nearly the village’s entire male population.
Yarchagumba looks like a shriveled brown chile pepper and is coveted as an aphrodisiac and medicinal cure-all. Literally translated as “summer grass, winter worm,” it forms when a parasitic fungus invades the burrowing larva of a ghost moth, transforms the *vital *organs into a cobweb-like mess, and then sends up a wispy sprout through the dead *insect’s head. The grisly process plays out across the Himalayas and the *Tibetan Plateau but only at the beginning of the monsoon and only on reclining slopes of grasses, shrubs, and milk vetch at the dizzying altitude of 10,000 to 16,500 feet. Thanks to a spike in global demand, mostly by Asian men looking to enhance their virility, a pound of yarcha*gumba now sells for as much as $50,000, more than the price of gold. *Profits from the fungus have transformed entire *villages, vexed government regulators, and even helped bankroll a communist insurgency. Nepal’s former Maoist rebels admit that taxing (read: *extorting) yarchagumba pickers was their main source of income in their decade-long war against the country’s monarchy.
I couldn’t believe what I was reading. I had visited Nepal often over the previous 15 years, even lived there for nearly a year, and had never heard of it. But as soon as I read about what the tittering international press dubbed the “Himalayan Viagra murders,” yarchagumba began popping up everywhere.
- read the full article The Killing Fields (from Outside)
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The number of individuals who know how to make a can of Coke is zero. The number of individual nations that could produce a can of Coke is zero. This famously American product is not American at all. Invention and creation is something we are all in together. Modern tool chains are so long and complex that they bind us into one people and one planet. They are not only chains of tools, they are also chains of minds: local and foreign, ancient and modern, living and dead?—?the result of disparate invention and intelligence distributed over time and space. Coca-Cola did not teach the world to sing, no matter what its commercials suggest, yet every can of Coke contains humanity’s choir.
The number of individuals who know how to make a can of Coke is zero. The number of individual nations that could produce a can of Coke is zero. This famously American product is not American at all. Invention and creation is something we are all in together. Modern tool chains are so long and complex that they bind us into one people and one planet. They are not only chains of tools, they are also chains of minds: local and foreign, ancient and modern, living and dead?—?the result of disparate invention and intelligence distributed over time and space. Coca-Cola did not teach the world to sing, no matter what its commercials suggest, yet every can of Coke contains humanity’s choir.
- read the full article What Coke Contains (from Medium.com)
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A study of Polish emigrants to Israel found men who survived the Holocaust lived, on average, six months longer than those who avoided it.
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Given what we know about the body’s response to trauma, it’s reasonable to assume that experiencing the horrors of the Holocaust would take a long-term toll on one’s health.
Reasonable, but apparently wrong. New research from Israel, which its authors call “the largest Holocaust study that has ever been conducted,” finds that, on average, male Holocaust survivors outlived their peers who avoided living under Nazi rule.
“Against all odds, survivors are likely to live longer,” reports a research team led by University of Haifa psychologist Abraham Sagi-Schwartz. The study found no such gap among women (who, on average, lived longer than men). But among males, Holocaust survivors lived an average of 6.5 months longer than members of a demographically identical group.
The study featured 55,220 people who emigrated from Poland to the British Mandate of Palestine, or, starting in 1948, the nation of Israel. Researchers compared data on 41,454 who emigrated between 1945 and 1950, and 13,766 who emigrated before 1939.
http://d1435t697bgi2o.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/concentration-camp.jpg
Given what we know about the body’s response to trauma, it’s reasonable to assume that experiencing the horrors of the Holocaust would take a long-term toll on one’s health.
Reasonable, but apparently wrong. New research from Israel, which its authors call “the largest Holocaust study that has ever been conducted,” finds that, on average, male Holocaust survivors outlived their peers who avoided living under Nazi rule.
“Against all odds, survivors are likely to live longer,” reports a research team led by University of Haifa psychologist Abraham Sagi-Schwartz. The study found no such gap among women (who, on average, lived longer than men). But among males, Holocaust survivors lived an average of 6.5 months longer than members of a demographically identical group.
The study featured 55,220 people who emigrated from Poland to the British Mandate of Palestine, or, starting in 1948, the nation of Israel. Researchers compared data on 41,454 who emigrated between 1945 and 1950, and 13,766 who emigrated before 1939.
- read the full article Among Men, Holocaust Survivors Live Longer Lives (from Pacific Standard)
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This actually makes sense (when you think about it). There is, obviously, a "survivorship" bias in the selection of the group who emerged from the Holocaust when compared with the "control" group.
That may not be what a first reaction would conclude but, on reflection, it's not all that surprising.
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That was my feeling on it too. Those who were sent to the camps were put through a sieve, so to speak - so those who survived through that were probably (just guessing) more durable than those who didn't. Whereas the group who by fate did not end up at the camps were not, uh, sorted in that way.
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A new meta-analysis finds that extreme changes in temperature increase the likelihood of inter-group conflict.
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Farmers in Brazil are more likely to invade each others' land in years that are particularly wet or unusually dry. Americans honk their horns more at other cars when it's hot outside. Countries in the tropics are more likely to have civil wars in years that are especially hot or dry.
They may seem random, but actually, these events are all connected. New research from Princeton University and UC Berkeley published today in Science reveals a link between big shifts in climate and precipitation and a rise in interpersonal violence, institutional breakdown, and especially inter-group violence, such as war. Not only does the paper shed light on past bouts of global conflict, it also offers a warning about the future. The world is expected to warm by at least 2 degrees Celsius over the next few decades, unless governments do something drastic, and the researchers say that increased bloodshed could be a serious side-effect of that trend.
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/international/climatewar-banner.jpg
Farmers in Brazil are more likely to invade each others' land in years that are particularly wet or unusually dry. Americans honk their horns more at other cars when it's hot outside. Countries in the tropics are more likely to have civil wars in years that are especially hot or dry.
They may seem random, but actually, these events are all connected. New research from Princeton University and UC Berkeley published today in Science reveals a link between big shifts in climate and precipitation and a rise in interpersonal violence, institutional breakdown, and especially inter-group violence, such as war. Not only does the paper shed light on past bouts of global conflict, it also offers a warning about the future. The world is expected to warm by at least 2 degrees Celsius over the next few decades, unless governments do something drastic, and the researchers say that increased bloodshed could be a serious side-effect of that trend.
- read the full article Hotter Weather Actually Makes Us Want to Kill Each Other (from The Atlantic)
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The article is a tad disingenuous with it's method for defining "Holocaust survivor": they define a "survivor" as any Jew who lived in Germany during WW2, whether or not they were actually sent to a concentration camp.
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The search is on for a couple to train as astronauts, for a privately funded mission to Mars. But wouldn't any couple squabble if cooped up together for 18 months? Explorer Deborah Shapiro, who spent more than a year with her husband in the Antarctic, provides some marital survival tips.
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In hindsight, we can say that there are some guidelines for living in harmony in a confined space, and all of them fall into the category I call "simple, but not necessarily easy".
One has to be able to give the other person mental elbow room. During our winter, when a person settled into the sofa in the salon with a book and started reading, he or she was not interrupted.
Keeping quiet when the person is close enough to practically read one's thoughts, is a matter of self-discipline, fuelled by caring.
The only exception to our silence rule was for boat-related safety issues. The boat, for obvious reasons of survival, always came first.
Showing tangible signs of caring and of empathy ensures that cabin fever never takes hold. It's one of the personality traits Sir Ernest Shackleton looked for, when signing-on crew for his expeditions.
As Rolf, who has Shackleton as a role model, always says: "I can teach anyone how to sail, but I can never change a person's personality."
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/66143000/jpg/_66143126_deborah_rolf624.jpg
In hindsight, we can say that there are some guidelines for living in harmony in a confined space, and all of them fall into the category I call "simple, but not necessarily easy".
One has to be able to give the other person mental elbow room. During our winter, when a person settled into the sofa in the salon with a book and started reading, he or she was not interrupted.
Keeping quiet when the person is close enough to practically read one's thoughts, is a matter of self-discipline, fuelled by caring.
The only exception to our silence rule was for boat-related safety issues. The boat, for obvious reasons of survival, always came first.
Showing tangible signs of caring and of empathy ensures that cabin fever never takes hold. It's one of the personality traits Sir Ernest Shackleton looked for, when signing-on crew for his expeditions.
As Rolf, who has Shackleton as a role model, always says: "I can teach anyone how to sail, but I can never change a person's personality."
- read the full article How to get along for 500 days alone together (from The BBC)
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You really didn't expect that I was going to let that one slip past without a response, did you ?
Rise In Violence Linked To Poor Statistics. Or Climate Change
http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=8704
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Sorta - seeing as the article isn't really about climate change per se...
You wouldn't know that if you listened to NPR.
By their reckoning, it's one of the 4,928 things caused by global warming.
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Last week, we looked at evidence that bottlenose dolphins use distinctive whistles to identify themselves, suggesting that these creatures, among the smartest in the animal kingdom, use the noises in a way that’s roughly analogous to our use of names to identify people.
Now, a separate study confirms dolphins’ ability to recognize these “names”—and indicates that they’re able to remember them over time far longer than we imagined. In tests of 43 dolphins kept in captivity around the United States, Jason Bruck of the University of Chicago found that the animals reacted differently upon hearing whistles that belonged to dolphins they’d shared tanks with up to 20 years previously, as compared with those of dolphins they’d never met.
Last week, we looked at evidence that bottlenose dolphins use distinctive whistles to identify themselves, suggesting that these creatures, among the smartest in the animal kingdom, use the noises in a way that’s roughly analogous to our use of names to identify people.
Now, a separate study confirms dolphins’ ability to recognize these “names”—and indicates that they’re able to remember them over time far longer than we imagined. In tests of 43 dolphins kept in captivity around the United States, Jason Bruck of the University of Chicago found that the animals reacted differently upon hearing whistles that belonged to dolphins they’d shared tanks with up to 20 years previously, as compared with those of dolphins they’d never met.
- read the full article Dolphins Can Remember Their Friends After Twenty Years Apart
(from Smithsonian Magazine)
(from Smithsonian Magazine)
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Books not blogs, dipstick.
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Though we know the real longest word in English takes three and a half hours to pronounce, more reasonable ones can be done in less than five million breaths. Like these ones! This video lets you hear the longest word in different languages like Czech, Danish, Slovenian, Dutch, etc. and boy some of them are a doozy. Like did you know there's a Turkish word for, "As if you are one of the people that we didn't make resemble from Afyonkarahisar" and a Hungarian word for, "For your continued behavior as if you could not be desecrated"? Fun.
- seee the video The Longest Words in Different Languages Are So Fun to Say (from Gizmodo)
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