Category: Animal World
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Once again, I can do no better than post links to a few interesting stories I came across. A terrible political "documentary" by a delusional desi. Can a doctor do this? Apparently yes, according to the AMA's guidelines. Not exactly a Marathon Man. This was bound to happen sooner or later – it is after all, an…
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"There is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest, for there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion." -Christopher Smart
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I am currently in New Delhi, staying where I always stay, in my parents' old house where I spent a large part of my youth. At the request of a friend I photographed the inside and outside of my home and posted some of the pictures on Facebook as three albums showing different parts of…
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The motto below the cat picture, "He who dislikes the cat, was in his former life, a rat." seems no longer apt. We have been seriously maligning rats, who apparently show empathetic behavior and even a degree of altruism that was hitherto unsuspected. Or maybe just unnoticed and unstudied. "The first evidence of empathy-driven helping…
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Afghan prosecutors announced that a young rape victim, jailed for adultery after reporting the crime and pushed into marrying her attacker, would have her sentence reduced from 12 to 3 years. She would remain in jail — with her child from the rape — for not reporting her attack fast enough.
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A brilliant idea : (courtesy Elatia Harris)
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The Mayor went on to say that, “…corporate America, as a whole, contributes greatly to our society and economy, but these leeches want all the blood they can get their hands on, even if they don’t need it.”
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Animals entered my life very early. Since I was about four or five years old until I was a teenager, a parade of dogs and birds came through our home. I would become attached to every one of them and their death or disappearance invariably caused me grief. Even though all the family members were involved…
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If this investigating professor is to be believed, it started several weeks before the Deepwater Horizon rig, positioned several miles offshore, drilling in 5000 ft deep ocean, was due to be capped and moved to another location for drilling. Based on his interviews with people who were involved in the rig's operation "There was an…
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Saw this on the evening news recently. I wonder if the cat attacks only when riding the robo-sweeper. Some less widely known info on Christmas animals. Could it be that Vixen and possibly Dancer and Blitzen are the aptly named reindeer of Santa? Rudolph appears to be plain wrong!
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Visual computations tend to be generically hard and resource intensive. For example, our state-of-the-art algorithm for yaw detection in flight apparently needs Moore’s Law engorged Intel Cores to do anything useful. And yet mere flies seem to manage the number-crunching just fine…The trick at least in this instance seems to be that flies aren’t using…
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