News Briefs 30-11-2011
Posted by Rick MG at 07:59, 30 Nov 2011I think my cat's trying to tell me something...
- Chimps know which plants have medicinal benefits.
- Ravens get attention with gestures. I saw one 'flip the bird' once.
- Major breakthrough in understanding dolphin language.
- Turtle embryos communicate with each other to coordinate hatching.
- Rupert Sheldrake may be right (Amazon US & UK).
- Man drags piano up a mountain to play Beethoven for blind elephants.
- Why does evolution allow some people to taste words & hear colours?
- Artist Jane Rosen discusses synesthesia & nature.
- What is psychic archaeology and does it work?
- The Vaults of Time by Stephan A Schwartz (Amazon US & UK).
- Intuitive Archaeology: digging in the past with the mind's eye.
- 1001 Arabian petroglyphs: rock art in the deserts of Saudi Arabia.
- Plans to light up Stonehenge at night. I'd rather the stars do that.
- Stonehenge pits played a part in celestial mysteries.
- Confessions of a crop circle maker.
- In the search for alien life, is it time to diversify?
- Hollywood, NASA, and the Curse of Mars.
- Wind-blown Martian sand dunes caught on camera.
- Chile's Atacama Desert offers a hint of alien-life habitats.
- Are UFOs flying over Argentina's mountain ranges.
- Legends of giants in the Peruvian Andes?
- Nevada's mysterious cave of the red-haired giants.
Thanks Red Pill Junkie.
Quote of the Day:
There's a certain kind of skepticism that can't bear uncertainty.
~ Rupert Sheldrake
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6 April 2010
16 hours 32 min
i learned how to imitate raven calls when i was young and decided to test it out by "talking" with a raven perched outside my house. all i did was imitate his calls, not knowing of course what i was saying :P
needless to say he brought me a twig.....sadly our true love can never be........
"Following the dog’s example, you will have to be wise in sniffing, smelling and estimating these fine and meaty books...after which you should break the bone and suck the substantial marrow..." ~ Rabelais
2 May 2004
5 hours 1 min
Reminds me of David Abram's Becoming Animal, the language of nature and beasts and the elements. We anthropomorphise animal communication to understand it, whereas perhaps we should be going the other way... become animal ourselves.
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@levitatingcat
6 April 2010
16 hours 32 min
I read that for a class on the subject. And wrote a lengthy paper on how humans learned our language and how we interact from the animals.
"Following the dog’s example, you will have to be wise in sniffing, smelling and estimating these fine and meaty books...after which you should break the bone and suck the substantial marrow..." ~ Rabelais