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October 10th, 2007- Tiny camera’s attached to crows have caught them making tools. Tool use… theory of mind… pound for gray-matter pound, these animals are much more intelligent than we are, making “Bird-Brained” no longer an insult.
- Congrats to Japan, as their lunar probe reaches orbit! Welcome to the cool kids club! You can sit next to me.
- Today Radiohead’s In Rainbows became available for download (and the site appears to be crashed as I write this. Now Trent Reznor is dumping the record labels. The RIAA is going down in flames. Burn baby! Burn! Bad is good! Down with government! (ala. the Midnight Bomber (with bombs at midnight!) from The Tick)
- If you can get out to the nation’s mall, check out the Solar Decathlon, which opens this Friday and runs through Saturday, and will feature 800 square foot open-house solar homes.
- Do you use the right or left hemisphere of your brain more often? Check out the spinning silhouette optical illusion to find out. The silhouette reverses direction on me sometimes when I look away, but I still can’t will it to happen.
- 99.9% of all species to ever roam the Earth became extinct. Will the same hold true for human civilizations? Check out the gallery of Lost Cities for some grand relics of communities long gone.
- Will the claim pan out? Controversial DNA researcher, , is poised to announce the first artificial life form on Earth, to be named Mycoplasma laboratorium.
- This computer-controlled cat door uses imaging software to identify Flo, the only cat allowed to pass through it, and also prevents Flo from entering the house with prey in her mouth. This would have been awesome at foiling my cat, Doobie, in his hobby of bringing live birds into my house to play with in very messy fashion.
 Crow Using Bent Wire |
 Sanchi, India |
It is actually the midnight bomber WHAT bombs at midnight. (I did catch the reference though!)
That illusion is quite awesome, I blogged about it a few months ago and showed it to some friends. It took me a bit, but now I can will her to switch directions every 5 to 10 seconds. It’s close to my favorite optical illusion EVAR!
Though, I don’t see what this has to do with brian function at all…. I question the validity of the article.