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Car Dogs

"And that one over there owns a Ferarri"
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Bird Know What You Are Thinking - They Understand Behavior

Be careful the next time you quietly curse a magpie attacking you during breeding season. It may know what you are thinking. Why is it that the birds seem to know the personalities of individuals walking by? If you have fed them in the past they appear to remember you and let you go on by unhindered while swooping down onto the heads of other people.

Crows have been observed hiding food from other crows. This is not due to stress as was once believed. There is still contention between the two opposing groups of scientists. Tests on scrub jays it was claimed proved that they were hiding food from more dominant Jays. This was really a hypothesis, not real proof.

The other group claims that birds are conscious of others and what other may be seeing, like humans. In their tests bird were allowed to hide peanuts in a litter of corn cobs. If another bird was watching they later came back and re-hid the peanuts. When they buried peanuts on their own they rarely re-hid them.

This was the key finding - stress from stealing hidden peanuts should change behavior. It didn't! Birds were given a tray of ground cobs but an empty bowl with no peanuts. They were then given cobs and peanuts which they hid. Researchers stole all the peanuts from this tray.

The birds were split into two teams for study. One had peanuts, a new cob tray with the "sham" empty tray. The other had peanuts, a new cob tray with the "pilfered" tray. Stress from knowing that peanuts had been stolen earlier did not change behavior. Both teams of jays hid peanuts in the same way.

The "contra" group of scientists claimed that the sham tray with no peanuts stressed the birds just as much as the pilfered tray. Obviously, the scientific test for testing new scientific claims is not set on concrete. It can be bent for one's own purpose.
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Science
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Animal Watching

"I'm watching you! Heh, heh, heh.
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TV Cats

"Don't believe all you see on television son."
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University of Queensland Blunders on Data

New research shows excessive watching of television is bad for your health. This is commonsense really. When you are watching TV you aren't doing anything physically. It is claimed that for every hour of TV one's lifespan is reduced by 22 minutes.

Many people watch eight hours of television each day, so the calculation is,

8hrs x 30Years x 365Days
-------------------------------- = 3.7 years lost.
65.5(22 minutes) x 365Days

OR,

8hrs x 365days 30yrs = 87600hrs total

87600hrs x 22mins
------------------- = 32120hrs total
60

32120hrs
--------- = 3.7 years lost
24 x 365


Just how did they reach this specific conclusion? Apparently obesity and diabetes were mentioned; then the figure was just fished out of the air.

They chose a ridiculous figure of two hours of TV every day over a lifetime. No one watches this tiny amount. They even decided that men were affected more than women: 1.8 years lost for men and 1.5 for women. Because women live longer the calculation should show a greater loss for them!

The University of Queensland should be careful about releasing such nonsensical information. The institution will lose all respect.
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Society

Work Watching Pair

"Yeah they've been there all day, making out they're working - blaaaah!"
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