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Saturday, March 27, 2004

Crow Culture
This interesting website documents observations of American Crow culture and language. It has sonograms, recordings and interpretations of various calls and lots of interesting observations of Crow life.
Introduction to crows.net
"The working hypothesis for the Crows.net Project is that the American crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos, is a highly intelligent species, with fully developed language and culture."
"Several times in the past, I have heard reports of "crow funerals", various types of group behavior by which crows acknowledge the death of another crow. I had never observed anything that might fit into this category of behavior until today."
posted at 3/27/2004 11:08:10 PM

Wednesday, March 10, 2004

The 100 Most Mispronunced English Words
Probably everyone can learn something here. Even I am guilty of some of these mispronunciations. Including the aforementioned. Includes such wonders as "Old Timer's Disease" and "It's a 'Doggy Dog World'".
100 Most Mispronounced Words
"Here are the 100 words most often mispronounced English words ('mispronunciation' among them)"
posted at 3/10/2004 10:17:08 PM

Friday, March 05, 2004

No More Summer
Is a large climate change coming sooner than later ? Many scientists think that the climate could flip into another ice age within our lifetime. Better make the most of the next few summers while there still is such a thing. Even the Pentagon is worried about how something like this could compromise US national security.
A Chilling Possibility
"Global warming could plunge North America and Western Europe into a deep freeze, possibly within only a few decades.That's the paradoxical scenario gaining credibility among many climate scientists. The thawing of sea ice covering the Arctic could disturb or even halt large currents in the Atlantic Ocean. Without the vast heat that these ocean currents deliver--comparable to the power generation of a million nuclear power plants--Europe's average temperature would likely drop 5 to 10°C (9 to 18°F)"
posted at 3/5/2004 06:10:35 PM

Thursday, March 04, 2004

Icebergs on Mars
With all the current hoopla about water on Mars, here is an interesting scientific paper from the 2003 Sixth International Conference on Mars that presents evidence of even stranger things. Were there icebergs floating on the Martian seas ?
ICE KEEL SCOUR MARKS ON MARS
"We present new observations from preliminary analyses of Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera images of surficial features interpreted to be the result of interactions between the keels of floating ice masses on submerged sediment. These narrow, intersecting curvilinear trough-like features are ice keel scour marks and are present in large reaches of the Kasei Valles system."
posted at 3/4/2004 09:36:26 AM