Archive for the 'Thought Experiments' Category
“Whales Might Be as Much Like People as Apes”
Snipped from Wired.com.
This is an interesting article about cetacean culture. We reported on another article that covered the breakdown of the dolphin’s dynamic and complicated language.
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“Wolfram’s ‘Knowledge Engine’ May Have the Edge”
Snipped from TechnologyReview.com.
If you are an infophile like me, then you may love this new computational “search” engine as much as I do.
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“Woman Wakes Up in Morgue”
Snipped from LiveScience.com.
Wow, what a story. I can’t imagine being the witness to a supposedly dead person waking up. This does present an interesting point. What does it mean to be dead?
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I May Know Why the Bats Are Dying
You’re killing me!
Why are bats dying? It seems nobody knows, but the scientists who were once studying the strange disappearance of bees, and what was responsible for killing our frogs, are now having to turn their attention to bats.
So, not only are our frogs dying, and our bees disappearing, now it’s bats!? This may sound batty, but I think there’s a conspiracy afoot. Doesn’t it seem to you that mankind’s vital helpers in agriculture, pest control and sub-par vampire movies are all checking out and leaving us adrift to new mercies of Nature?
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Need To Escape? Then Just Imagine
Sure, you can name the play-by-play announcer for the Pittsburgh Pirates back in the 1950’s. You might tell the following facts to anyone willing to listen: the name of the first man to conquer Mount Everest, know who played the movie role of Lawrence of Arabia, rattle off the capitols of each of the fifty states, can recall the man who, with just a smile and a fountain pen, pulled off the biggest billion dollar scam ever. You know lots of stuff, don’t you?
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Your Christmas Present Is Delayed
Some history first:
“St. Nicholas is by far the most easily recognized source of Christmas presents around the world. Parents would leave small gifts of candy or fruits for their children in the honor of St. Nicholas. Eventually the date of this exchange of gifts became associated with the December 25th festivities.
“Christmas presents became even more of a focal point of the holiday experience in the mid-19th century when Americans began to shift from exchanging small, simple gifts and instead began taking a more consume-driven approach to Christmas presents and gift exchanges.”
–Source: Gail Leino at EzineArticles.com
