“So what will the wave look like? Anyone? You want me to ask the cat? Because the cat will get it!”
The Bourdain doc might break me.
https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Anthony-Bourdain-Roadrunner-documentary-Focus-Film-16332581.php
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Dave Chang recently had the director on his podcast.
Before 2018, this behavior had only been reported in three suburbs – but by the end of 2019, that number shot up to 44 suburbs, according to the study. And the behavior spread among nearby neighborhoods faster than it reached far-flung ones, showing that the new behavior wasn’t randomly popping up.
“These results show the animals really learned the behavior from other cockatoos in their vicinity,” Klump said in the release.
The researchers also marked cockatoos with paint dots to track which ones had learned to open the trash cans – which turned out to be only 10% of the birds. The other cockatoos would wait, then help themselves once the trash cans had been opened.
And not all birds open trash cans the same way – the team found that regional subcultures had emerged among the cockatoos, who had distinct styles and approaches. For instance, in late 2018, a cockatoo in northern Sydney reinvented the technique by opening the lids a different way, prompting birds in neighboring districts to copy the behavior.
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This isn’t surprising. It just confirms the old saying, “cockatoo see, cockatoo do”.
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Ayn Rand warned us about this.
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Ayn Rand was one of the 90% who tricked the other Cockatoos into thinking the trash cans just opened themselves.
Should have been posted in the Good News thread.
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There doubtless many wrong things about this graphic, but its interpretation of topology is ghastly. Has this dude ever heard of boats? In reality being landlocked countries is more likely to lead to isolation.
He’s using topology in the mathematical sense.
What’s more embarrassing in your browser history: embedded hardcore porn or visits to the Huffington Post?
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Do you oppose maps that use different colors for land and water?
Often. It depends!
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The only point as far as I can tell is to visually represent which countries border which other countries. At that it does a fantastic job.
Well that is not topology in any meaningful way. Also even in that limited attempt this is all wrong (The US and Cuba share a boundary, for example). Ignore my earlier comment, terrible and misleading political maps and visualizations are just one of those specific things bound to put my lawnmower in orbit.
Where?