Crows learn to recognize faces. In particular, the faces of crow-catching researchers. And pass this knowledge on to their friends and families. This having been tested by having humans wear different masks when catching birds in different places: The birds quickly learned that the masked bird-trapper was bad news and proceeded to scold the mask-wearer […]
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Specifically, some followups/tangents spinning off from this post. Some thoughts on the 10,000 hour/10 year rule that I’d thinking about as I wrote the above. Specifically, on the idea that those considered unusually brilliant in a field all tend to have one thing in common: that they’ve put in roughly the same amount of time.
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Spoken and sung by anyone else, this would probably be a little irritating. Spoken and sung by Ethel Merman, it’s rather nice. And makes me smile. (Via lnhammer.)
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Also known as your afternoon silliness:Mirrored from Desert Dispatches: WordPress Edition.
Dani Shapiro on writing and scale and careers: “Solotaroff wondered where all the talented young writers he had known or published when he was first editing New American Review had gone. Only a few had flourished. Some, he speculated, had ended up teaching, publishing occasionally in small journals. But most had just . . .
What would happen if every one of us had one and only one soulmate, whom we would automatically know the moment our eyes met? The world would be a much lonelier place. “You are my daughter.” Yet again, Darths and Droids gives a scene that should have happened, if only Star Wars episodes 4-6 had
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Had a great time chatting with the Young at Heart Book Club about Bones of Faerie last night. If you’re an adult reader of YA anywhere near Mesa, AZ, you should totally stop by. Next month they’re reading Lisa McMann’s Cryer’s Cross. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= On the confidence game: “Truly confident people have already worked out who
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You chose wrong. Required reading for anyone with fond memories of Choose Your Own Adventure books.“Trumpet Vine Love Song,” a poem by asakiyume.I’m amused to admit, until a few days ago, I really did think YOLO stood for You Obviously Love Owls. Because it should.When hyphen boy meets hyphen girl, the names pile up. Because
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Okay, I know I’m actually doing research about deadly dangerous feline shapeshifters. But OMG, the cute:Even if one does wonder what will become of her, as an adult.Also:I must say though, it is a little disconcerting how often big cat videos call up ads for Fancy Feast …Bonus owl vid from lnhammer:Who knew that in