October 2011
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A Murder of Crows →
I hadn’t heard of the New Caledonia crows or their meta-tool use before watching this Nature documentary. I knew corvids were smart, but never at this level. Watch this if you love birds.
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Stream of consciousness
See if you can follow my train of thought today (I’m paraphrasing in all instances):
1. Eat a kiwi after my morning run. Notice how the seeds surround a whitish center throughout the fruit. Make mental note to research kiwi.
2. Find out that kiwis are officially kiwifruit, but that name is actually a marketing strategy. It was renamed in the 1950s because the original — Chinese gooseberry —...
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