Crows are very smart birds, although they’ve long been thought to be harbingers of bad news: A crow’s brain is the size of a human thumb, huge relative to its body, putting their intelligence on par with primates and allowing … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →Garbage in, garbage out?
Continue reading →You decide. I’d settle for intelligent. On the other hand, there’s this.
Continue reading →…is not the territory: Presently, the best climate models fall many orders of magnitude short of the power and intricacy needed to effectively predict the long-term climate patterns that emerge from the interactions of all these planetary systems. And that’s … Continue reading →
This bracelet fragment is surpassingly strange, although it may not be clear why on first viewing: Here’s a reconstruction of what it probably looked like when worn: Here’s the explanation: It is intricately made with polished green stone and is … Continue reading →
It’s not really new; the virus and the disease it causes, Zika fever, was identified back in the 1950s in Africa. But it has been spreading for a while, and recently made the leap to the Western Hemisphere and is … Continue reading →
My dog was a champ at this: While we’re at it, here’s another. This one’s about yawning: Dr. Seuss remarked on this phenomenon in a book I used to read to my son at bedtime, in the hope (usually vain) … Continue reading →
Phytoplankton have been proliferating in the North Atlantic when they were predicted to be doing the opposite, and we haven’t a clue why. Nor do we know whether the increase is beneficial or harmful. Here’s an observation on this from … Continue reading →
The subject of H-1B visas* came up during last Wednesday’s Republican debate, most particularly regarding Rubio, who advocates an expansion of the program with some restrictions. So I decided to try to find out the truth about what’s involved and … Continue reading →
I knew that I didn’t like the idea of a self-driving car (that’s “self” as in “the car drives itself”). The moment I heard they were perfecting such an item, it gave me very serious pause. Maybe that’s because in … Continue reading →
As a former sufferer from fairly severe chronic pain, news such as this interests me: Joe Grewal, the first human to be fitted with a permanent implant, said he has suffered chronic back pain for more than 30 years and … Continue reading →