Elephant Self-Awareness Mirrors Humans
‘Elephants can recognize themselves in a mirror, joining only humans, apes and dolphins as animals that possess this kind of self-awareness, researchers now report.
“This would seem to be a trait common to and independently evolved by animals with large, complex brains, complex social lives and known capacities for empathy and altruism, even though the animals all have very different kinds of brains,” researcher Diana Reiss, a senior cognitive research scientist at the Wildlife Conservation Society in Brooklyn, N.Y., told LiveScience.
Hopefully, she added, this will encourage people to protect elephants.’
How the Web Prevents Rape
‘Does pornography breed rape? Do violent movies breed violent crime? Quite the opposite, it seems.
First, porn. What happens when more people view more of it? The rise of the Internet offers a gigantic natural experiment. Better yet, because Internet usage caught on at different times in different states, it offers 50 natural experiments.
The bottom line on these experiments is, “More Net access, less rape.” A 10 percent increase in Net access yields about a 7.3 percent decrease in reported rapes. States that adopted the Internet quickly saw the biggest declines. And, according to Clemson professor Todd Kendall, the effects remain even after you control for all of the obvious confounding variables, such as alcohol consumption, police presence, poverty and unemployment rates, population density, and so forth.’
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‘Unorthodox Taxidermy’ By Dr. Suess
‘Seuss embarked on an ingenious project in the early 1930s as he evolved from two-dimensional artworks to three-dimensional sculptures. What was most unusual for these mixed-media sculptures was the use of real animal parts including beaks, antlers and horns from deceased Forest Park Zoo animals where Seuss’s father was superintendent.’
Mulberry Street Unicorn
61 rooms, 21 artists, 1,000 ideas
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Update 6/12/07:
I’m back again after a long break from blogging. Due to lack of time (excessive studying has fried my brain), I switched over to tumblr. You can view my other blog here. I plan to integrate my two blogs along with my clipmarks posts. This blog will be used to share with you the best of my finds. Hope you like!
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