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POPSAnimal to Human Disease Epidemics Google believes the next epidemic is likely to come from animals. Monitoring and protecting animal health can protect or improve human health; thus, the ONE HEALTH INITIATIVE.
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POPSCrows make monkeys out of chimps in mental test To investigate further, the team presented the crows with a wooden table, divided into two compartments. A treat was at the end of each compartment, but in one, it was positioned behind a rectangular trap hole. To get the snack, the crow had to consistently choose to retrieve food from the compartment without the hole. A recent study of great apes found they could not transfer success at the trap-tube to success at the trap-table. The three crows could, however.
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POPSAustralia in biosecurity hotspot Germs don't need a passport. We cannot encase ourselves in a bubble. We cannot stop the evolution of pathogens. Our best defense is in our own immune systems. We need to know more about our immune system, than the germs, because lethal strains can develop at random. Our immune system is something we all have in common.
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POPSAnimal rights: A farm boy reflects Anyone who knows animals, knows that they have individual personalities, often more interesting and more ethical than human personalities. By what right, do we make them suffer before killing them for our own benefit?
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POPSArtificial Intelligence under the spotlight at BA Festival ‘Computers are now one million times more powerful than when I started my research career – no field has come close to this rate of development,’ he says. ‘If transport had progressed at the same rate we would be flying from London to New York in less than a tenth of second.’
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POPSChimps Agree: A Bird in Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush This tendency held true for both groups, despite different rearing histories, suggesting that their disinclination to barter is innate, says Sarah Brosnan of Georgia State University, the lead researcher in this study. The chimps’ risk-averse behavior, Brosnan speculates, is attributable to a lack of language skills. “If one chimp could say to another, ‘OK, you crack nuts while I hunt meat, and then we’ll trade,’ they’d be able to specialize and have a developed economy,” Brosnan says.
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POPSHow many words do dogs understand? For other dog owners, we all know soon we have to say W for walk or C for cookie and so on. This must be done only because they learn words fast. As with the examples above, I would obviously say the 'fast part' is associated with positive things...they're not dumb! For the complete article: http://animals.howstuffworks.com/pets/dogs-understand-words.htm
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POPSDo Dolphins Have a Sense of the Future? It is their ability to understand sentences of sign language that astound though, with a sentence like “touch the frisbee with your tail and then jump over it” returning just that from the dolphin. This proves more than just rigorous training is the answer, but an understanding of what we are asking of them.
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POPSThe Awesome Intelligence of the Crow. This is an interesting video about a vending machine for crows. It actually illustrates how adaptable crows are and how they may be trained, by anyone with patience and smarts enough to teach them, to help human beings become a better species upon our planet. It's time for people to realize, they are not the only ones who are able to think and solve problems. Maybe, in a million years or less, we will have to share the top of the food chain with other breeds. Follow the link below for the TED.com, short talk on crows. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/261
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POPSElephants Can Paint - Watch Video Please leave a comment. I'm interested in your opinions about Elephants that can paint. I would send you a thank you message, but Clipmarks doesn't have a messaging system. I would reply to your comment, but you have no way of being notified of my reply to your comment. WOW! Clipmarks still have a lot of room for improvement. Please send a suggestion to Clipmarks to Feedback@Clipmarks.com and let them know what we want to see as far as new features on Clipmarks. The more people that write in, the more driven they will become to appease the members. Thank you Stephen
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POPSTaking Play Seriously Eliminating unstructured playtime from our children's lives may have unforeseen consequences. The stress amongst today's children is the obvious one.
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POPSThe Paradox of Political Animals “The paradox of a highly social species like rhesus monkeys and humans is that our complex sociality is the reason for our success, but it’s also the source of our greatest troubles,” he said. “Throughout human history, you see that the worst problems for people almost always come from other people, and it’s the same for the monkeys. You can put them anywhere, but their main problem is always going to be other rhesus monkeys.” aka 'le condition social'?
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POPSGay Ol' Animal Kingdom While I don't agree with most of the article, I found this bit amusing. But the author's thoughts seem to be: Humans have too many morals and too great of intelligence to be homosexual. I find that to be bullshit. I'm not any better or worse because I prefer blondes to brunettes. Same difference.
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POPSThe Human brain:Should we upgrade ? There are more details at the site. More practical reasons there are limits to the development of the brain. We just need to remember quality not quantity, Lateral thinking, and the thoughts that count.
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