Weird Science

[Cyclopea]

Originally Posted by Medusa

Mind-reading Software?!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_530009.html

Very interesting! Seems inevitable that our minds will eventually become literally super (supra?) human with integrated technology. I just hope we're not operating heavy machinery when we need to re-boot. lol.

Originally Posted by evolveme

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100410.html

Too big to post, so clickity click.

What an extraordinary sight! And site! *bookmarked*

Originally Posted by Kimbo

NASA Finds Shrimp-Like Creature, Jellyfish Beneath Antarctic Ice Sheet: 'We Were Just Gaga Over It'

Link

So cool. Amazing how much of our planet is still unexplored and full of surprises!

Originally Posted by violaine

"The current results indicate that the looking response appears to be a function of at least three factors: the cost of looking inside the tube, the value of the reward and the state of the information. The combination of these three factors creates an information processing system that possesses complexity, flexibility and control, three of the features of metacognition*. These findings suggest that nonhuman animals may possess some metacognitive abilities, too."

*Metacognition: cognition about cognition, or knowing about knowing.

http://www.physorg.com/news188645191.html

Very interesting. I was a bit perplexed by that study because it seems so intuitive that other mammals would "know" that they were capable of error.
I laughed when you said "not weird, but..." because I had misgivings about the thread title- I agree, none of this is "weird". I considered "Science, Whoa" but that seemed gay even for me, and besides, who doesn't like Oingo Boingo?

ok lot's of people don't *cough* lol.

Originally Posted by Kimbo

A friend posted this on Facebook..

The Pipa Pipa Toad.

Link

Omg. I can truly say I have never seen such a thing before. Wow! Awesome...

[violaine]

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/...r-flyballs.ars

http://weirdscience.ca/tag/birds/



extra -

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356850,00.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-tourists.html

[Cyclopea]

Originally Posted by violaine

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/...r-flyballs.ars

http://weirdscience.ca/tag/birds/



extra -

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356850,00.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-tourists.html

I don't think I will ever look at a berry the same again!

[violaine]

http://brainmaps.org/index.php?p=spe...cies=tyto-alba


http://brainmaps.org/index.php?p=info-tyto-alba

[Cyclopea]

Originally Posted by violaine

http://brainmaps.org/index.php?p=spe...cies=tyto-alba


http://brainmaps.org/index.php?p=info-tyto-alba

[violaine]

i know why the crow is dropping stones into the pitcher.

love the images, and crows are the most intelligent birds around us.

thank you.

[Kimbo]

Why is the crow dropping stones into the pitcher?

There are many crows in the PNW. When I throw peanuts out to the squirrels the crows watch where they bury them and go dig them up. Poor squirrels, all that work....