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Baboons Can Recognize words

It was thought that monkeys and chimpanzees were unable to use language as humans do because they do not have the required language centers in their brains. Tests on baboons turned this theory on its head. Monkeys learned the rules of words, for example consonants and vowels, so they could recognize real words in a bundle of made up nonsense.

Humans must first build up words from letters before they get meaning. We need to construct words as if they were tables and chairs, from the legs up.

Baboons were tested by encouraging them to "play" with computers. When they selected a real word they got wheat as a reward. Each computer had a cross and a circle so the baboons could show words and non-words by pressing either symbol. The words were only four uppercase letters long, but each baboon did up to 60,000 tests and they were 75 per cent correct. The best baboon learned 308 words

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Science

Baboons Test New Computer

"I'm telling you. Read the handbook!"

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Cat Computer Food

"I want feeding. You listenin'?"
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Computer Food

"How much longer will he be on that computer?"

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Cat Gambler

Gambling is bad. No it's good, good, good!"

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Gorilla Internet Support

"Hello. This is Internet support."

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Baboons Test New Computer

"I'm telling you. Read the handbook!"

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Orangutans View Windows 7

"The new Windows 7 is better than XP? What a joke. Ha-ha-ha."

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Sick Dog

"I'm sick, but I gotta keep my website up to date"

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If You Sit Down You Die

Humans are built to stand up all the time. How ridiculous this sounds, but this is what scientists say. You will die younger, get diabetes, and fall victim to cancer if you sit down too much. Doing exercise wont stop it apparently. Even sitting down at any time is damaging. This is "silly science" because though people sit down longer than ever before they also live longer. Statistics prove this.

Scientists say the body only functions "normally" if we are standing. They cease if we sit down. If these body operations work when we are standing what proof is there that they are really necessary? There is no proof. This is just a whim and let's hope it soon passes before people bring cases to court against employers.

There is no more ardent a person against smoking than an ex-smoker. Guess What! The main researcher on all this stuff, Professor Levine, has taken to standing all the time. This bloke is a bit of a nutcase, an obsessive compulsive if there is one - he walks around the room like in the old movies with an almighty long telephone cord. He also invented machines where you can keep walking or cycle while still using a computer. Health and safety has deemed these device too dangerous to use.

Levine wants to change the world like all obsessives. "What you need to do is to create an overall environment of health." Yeah, like those people selling ordinary tea that supposedly makes you lose weight. Beware, the Professor has four large US companies on board to find out how much can be saved in dollars by walking around all the time. You could be next on the test list.