Hello new folks! Wow. Yesterday, Penny Arcade joined in the bean spilling about Strip Search, and at that point I’d have to say that the bean can has been fully emptied. There are beans everywhere. If you’ve landed here from PA, you have my humblest of welcomes. I hope you enjoy your stay. If you like [...]
Crows were back in the news again last week. A fascinating study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggesting that New Caledonian Crows are able to reason about hidden causal agents—connecting events to a hidden perpetrator. But before we go any further, if you aren’t already in love with genus Corvus, please [...]
Birds are falling out of the sky! Is it the apocalypse? We can only hope, but birds are also pretty easily confused and animals massively drop dead all the time so the apocalypse is going to need other signs. As Michio Kaku explains* poor eyesight, tight formation flying and disorientation of the lead bird is [...]