I don't trust the Gorilla Foundation anymore. Especially after they got sued by two of their female caretakers who were ordered to take off their tops, with the alleged justification that Koko wanted to see their nipples.
Given that Koko's signed conversations are worse than Eliza,
HaloMyBaby: MInyKitty asks Koko are you going to have a baby in the future?
LiveKOKO: Pink
DrPPatrsn: We've had earlier discussion about colors today
LiveKOKO: Listen, Koko loves eat
HaloMyBaby: Me too!
DrPPatrsn: What about a baby? She's thinking...
LiveKOKO: Unattention
DrPPatrsn: She covered her face with her hands....which means it's not happening, basically, or it hasn't happened yet.
LiveKOKO: I don't see it.
HaloMyBaby: That's sad!
DrPPatrsn: In other words, she hasn't had one yet, and she doesn't see it happening. She needs several females and one male to have a family. In our setting it really isn't possible for her to have a baby.
Question: Do you like to chat with other people?
LiveKOKO: fine nipple
DrPPatrsn: Nipple rhymes with people, she doesn't sign people per se, she was trying to do a "sounds like..."
It doesn't seem that difficult to believe that most of the 'high level comprehension' Koko displays is a combination of wishful thinking and outright lying.
Even if we assume the best of intentions, Patterson has admitted that the research is difficult to support empirically (see Conversations with a Gorilla, National Geographic 1978).
Now let's deal with the elephants link.
Elephant outwits human on IQ test [discovery.com]
First off, I don't know why exactly you renamed 'intelligence test' to 'IQ test'. That's clearly deceptive. There is no 'IQ test' in TFA. Second, there was no competition between humans and elephants in the test. The 'outwitting humans' is a bit of sensationalist headline anyway, but that's Discovery's fault, not yours. The two instances referred to are:
"We were pleasantly surprised to see the youngest elephant, Neua Un, use her foot to hold the rope so that her partner had to do all the work," Plotnik said. "I hadn't thought about this beforehand, and Neua Un seemed to figure it out by chance, but it speaks volumes to the flexibility of elephant behavior that she was able to figure this out and stick to it."
and
The other "cheater," JoJo, didn't even bother to walk up to the volleyball net unless his partner, Wanalee, was released.
"Perhaps he had learned that if he approached the rope without her, he'd fail," Plotnik said, adding that such advanced learning, problem-solving, and cooperation are rare in the animal kingdom
Neither of which I'd really consider 'outwitting'.
It is even possible to prove the nonexistence of something with only a single property... such as the existence of a number that is equivalent to itself plus 1. There is absolutely no number, in any number system defined by mathematics, that satisfies this criteria.
There's an even easier test. Look at your kid's birthday. Now look at the cutoff date between age brackets for each sport. Now pick the one where your kid will always be the oldest player on the field. More physical development = wins more = gets more practice AND likes the sport more = positive skill-building feedback loop.
Google Earth has had a flight simulator built in for years now. The difference between normal google Earth, a F-16 in Google Earth and a helicopter in Google Earth isn't that noteworthy.
I thought it was very funny, and I thought the audience that they portrayed was totally real, but the actors that they were pretending to be were totally unrecognizable. Certainly I don't know what Tim Allen was doing. He seemed to be the head of a group of actors, and for the life of me I was trying to understand who he was imitating. The only one I recognized was the girl playing Nichelle Nichols.
It was announced dinosaur feathers have been found in Amber this week. High placed French official Cordell Fennevall is on record as saying that this is a 'real discovery', and all other paleontological work this year will merely be its shadows.
Artistic renderings in this article were created by one Dworkin Barimen. All rights reserved.
If you're profiting, you need to pay for the tools and software you use in your work
And keep every receipt (dated receipts - undated ones don't count) for every piece of software you possess, along with records on each individual computer linking that particular license to that particular receipt.
Once you've done that, you're ready to start getting ready for the BSA.
You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan." But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds!
The AIDS pandemic in China was caused by unsafe blood donation practices.
Specifically, the blood merchants would extract blood from villagers, pool it together in a big tub, extract the plasma, and then reinject it. Part of it was a cost-cutting measure, part of it was due to local religious beliefs.
Coke actually had their formula revealed in a court case several decades ago. You can look it up if you want to.
Of course, it doesn't really matter that much to soft drink manufacturers, since the cost of analysis is trivial. Pepsi could make Pepsi exactly identical to Coke, but it's a bad business model.
Here's the complete list of the things the US Energy Panel has Cautiously Endorsed this week
* Shooting for oil
* Bristols for oil
* Peeving for oil
* Fracking for oil
* Berkeley Hunting for oil
* Cork-sinking for oil
* Motherfracking for oil
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I don't trust the Gorilla Foundation anymore. Especially after they got sued by two of their female caretakers who were ordered to take off their tops, with the alleged justification that Koko wanted to see their nipples.
Given that Koko's signed conversations are worse than Eliza,
HaloMyBaby: MInyKitty asks Koko are you going to have a baby in the future?
LiveKOKO: Pink
DrPPatrsn: We've had earlier discussion about colors today
LiveKOKO: Listen, Koko loves eat
HaloMyBaby: Me too!
DrPPatrsn: What about a baby? She's thinking...
LiveKOKO: Unattention
DrPPatrsn: She covered her face with her hands....which means it's not happening, basically, or it hasn't happened yet.
LiveKOKO: I don't see it.
HaloMyBaby: That's sad!
DrPPatrsn: In other words, she hasn't had one yet, and she doesn't see it happening. She needs several females and one male to have a family. In our setting it really isn't possible for her to have a baby.
Question: Do you like to chat with other people?
LiveKOKO: fine nipple
DrPPatrsn: Nipple rhymes with people, she doesn't sign people per se, she was trying to do a "sounds like..."
It doesn't seem that difficult to believe that most of the 'high level comprehension' Koko displays is a combination of wishful thinking and outright lying.
Even if we assume the best of intentions, Patterson has admitted that the research is difficult to support empirically (see Conversations with a Gorilla, National Geographic 1978).
Now let's deal with the elephants link.
Elephant outwits human on IQ test [discovery.com]
First off, I don't know why exactly you renamed 'intelligence test' to 'IQ test'. That's clearly deceptive. There is no 'IQ test' in TFA.
Second, there was no competition between humans and elephants in the test. The 'outwitting humans' is a bit of sensationalist headline anyway, but that's Discovery's fault, not yours. The two instances referred to are:
"We were pleasantly surprised to see the youngest elephant, Neua Un, use her foot to hold the rope so that her partner had to do all the work," Plotnik said. "I hadn't thought about this beforehand, and Neua Un seemed to figure it out by chance, but it speaks volumes to the flexibility of elephant behavior that she was able to figure this out and stick to it."
and
The other "cheater," JoJo, didn't even bother to walk up to the volleyball net unless his partner, Wanalee, was released.
"Perhaps he had learned that if he approached the rope without her, he'd fail," Plotnik said, adding that such advanced learning, problem-solving, and cooperation are rare in the animal kingdom
Neither of which I'd really consider 'outwitting'.
Tarn Adams.
We aren't quite at the level of Indian Robot Endhiran yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yBnl_krN_U
If I recall correctly, the full formula was revealed when the US government sued Coca-Cola in the early nineteen hundreds.
The case was titled United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola
Which would be a good name for a kaiju movie.
However, this comes from a man who's last words were "I drank what?!"
Too soon.
It is even possible to prove the nonexistence of something with only a single property... such as the existence of a number that is equivalent to itself plus 1. There is absolutely no number, in any number system defined by mathematics, that satisfies this criteria.
Ever heard of "modular arithmetic"?
Wheat is a GM crop. It's a mutated hybrid of three different species.
Duh, of course geology isn't a real science. It's just a load of horsecrap.
A real scientist studies geonomy.
There's an even easier test. Look at your kid's birthday. Now look at the cutoff date between age brackets for each sport. Now pick the one where your kid will always be the oldest player on the field. More physical development = wins more = gets more practice AND likes the sport more = positive skill-building feedback loop.
Google Earth has had a flight simulator built in for years now. The difference between normal google Earth, a F-16 in Google Earth and a helicopter in Google Earth isn't that noteworthy.
He's already been asked that. Here's his response
I thought it was very funny, and I thought the audience that they portrayed was totally real, but the actors that they were pretending to be were totally unrecognizable. Certainly I don't know what Tim Allen was doing. He seemed to be the head of a group of actors, and for the life of me I was trying to understand who he was imitating. The only one I recognized was the girl playing Nichelle Nichols.
It was announced dinosaur feathers have been found in Amber this week. High placed French official Cordell Fennevall is on record as saying that this is a 'real discovery', and all other paleontological work this year will merely be its shadows.
Artistic renderings in this article were created by one Dworkin Barimen. All rights reserved.
A proximity trigger would be the most useful.
If you're profiting, you need to pay for the tools and software you use in your work
And keep every receipt (dated receipts - undated ones don't count) for every piece of software you possess, along with records on each individual computer linking that particular license to that particular receipt.
Once you've done that, you're ready to start getting ready for the BSA.
You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan." But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds!
I, for one, welcome our microscopic overlords.
The AIDS pandemic in China was caused by unsafe blood donation practices.
Specifically, the blood merchants would extract blood from villagers, pool it together in a big tub, extract the plasma, and then reinject it. Part of it was a cost-cutting measure, part of it was due to local religious beliefs.
Fast food restaurants and coffeeshops offer free wifi as a reason.
I'm honestly surprised that the intersection of 'starbucks goers' and 'tablet users' isn't larger.
@#D%*H#&NO CARRIER
Comparing against a dog for smell is like comparing against a cheetah for burst speed.
Actually humans have a pretty decent but not spectacular sense of smell.
The biggest issue is having a nose that's over a meter off the ground.
Woooosh!
Coke actually had their formula revealed in a court case several decades ago. You can look it up if you want to.
Of course, it doesn't really matter that much to soft drink manufacturers, since the cost of analysis is trivial. Pepsi could make Pepsi exactly identical to Coke, but it's a bad business model.
Here's the complete list of the things the US Energy Panel has Cautiously Endorsed this week
* Shooting for oil
* Bristols for oil
* Peeving for oil
* Fracking for oil
* Berkeley Hunting for oil
* Cork-sinking for oil
* Motherfracking for oil
Most importantly: are they happy?
Is that really most important?
If so, then you'd better start distributing heroin to the poor.