News Briefs 07-11-2012
Posted by Rick MG at 13:03, 07 Nov 2012Throw me a cracker, click an Amazon Grail link & buy a book.
- Skeptiko: Sam Harris, Psi, & the "backwater" of science.
- Heaven, must be there... does Dr Eben Alexander's NDE really prove it?
- If you've read Alexander's book, post your thoughts (Amazon US/Kindle, UK).
- Dr Stuart Hameroff talks consciousness here & over here.
- Spooky quantum entanglement gets an extra twist.
- Listen! Do you smell something? Do you see & hear things that aren't there?
- UFOs return to Malmstrom AFB nuke sites, with several sightings in September.
- Ufology is dead! Wait, no, it's alive. Nope, dead again. Hang on, it's still twitching a little. It's like a Monty Python sketch.
- UFO witness reports on the rise in the US of A, with investigations expanding.
- Indian army and border patrols report over 100 UFO sightings in Tibet.
- The mysterious Brown Mountain lights continue to dazzle & baffle.
- Glyph-shaped UFO over London! To launch Xbox Halo 4 game.
- November's a good month for celestial shadow play.
- Earth-like planets more widespread in the universe than previously thought.
- Philip Coppens on the lost civilisation enigma (Amazon US/Kindle, UK).
- 8000-year-old jewelry & female figurines from Serbia go on display.
- Cockatoo makes & uses tools on its own. Freedom is one cracker away...
- Orangutans infected by mystery Ebola-like virus.
Cheers, Anomalologist.
Quote of the Day:
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
~ John Muir



Comments
9 February 2009
19 weeks 2 days
the cockatoo story got me thinking...
what constitutes "tool use"? it's something i never questioned before, i just took it at some kind of "face value".
then i pondered a story my acupuncturist told me about a friend of hers who has five corgis (i have two, that's how the subject came up, and no, as far as i know my acupuncturist does not know qe2)...anyway the five corgis, so i am told, have figured out how to work together to push the kitchen chairs to the counter to get at food and even know how to open the cupboards...they were not taught how to do it. i have not seen it myself, so i can't verify the accuracy of the story.
but i did find this on youtube
or do we just blow off the antics (intelligence/resourcefulness) of our canine companions because they are so familiar?
2 May 2004
22 hours 17 min
Yep, I'd argue that's tool use! Cats use tools as well, also known as humans.
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@levitatingcat
12 April 2007
8 hours 3 min
IMO tool-using is nowhere near as impressive as tool-making.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
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14 April 2009
4 weeks 12 hours
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