EBSCOhost: Gaia Comes of Age. Welcome to whalesong.net. Witness to a Plastic Invasion. It blew in for two solid days: a flotilla of plastic forks, soda bottles, rubber gloves, and other refuse.
I tried to pick everything up off the beach, but when I turned around, you couldn’t tell that I had cleaned at all. When we went out in the boats, we had to go slowly in order to dodge the debris. Eventually the tide came in and swooped it all away. I was at the Smithsonian Marine Research Station on Carrie Bow, a small island on the southern end of Belize. My colleagues and I discussed where the garbage could be coming from.
On the way back from a short dive, to collect some data, I approached a mass of plastic floating in the water. From underneath, it looked like a huge, swirling monster. It was only later that I was able to really see what I filmed. This experience transformed me in ways that I hope watching this video will transform you. Tim Flannery: Here on Earth. Bio Stewart Brand Stewart Brand is co-founder and president of The Long Now Foundation and co-founder of Global Business Network.
He created and edited the Whole Earth Catalog (National Book Award), and co-founded the Hackers Conference and The WELL. His books include The Clock of the Long Now; How Buildings Learn; and The Media Lab. His most recent book, titled Whole Earth Discipline, is published by Viking in the US and Atlantic in the UK. Tim Flannery Tim Flannery has written such books as the definitive ecological histories of Australia (The Future Eaters) and North America (The Eternal Frontier). As a field zoologist he has discovered and named more than thirty new species of mammals (including two tree-kangaroos) and at 34 he was awarded the Edgeworth David Medal for Outstanding Research. Tim Flannery spent a year as professor of Australian studies at Harvard, where he taught in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.
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My oldest bird, Alex, can identify about 50 different objects using English labels. He can also label seven colors, five shapes, and quantities up to and including six. He has functional use of phrases like "I want X" and "I wanna go Y", where X and Y, respectively, are object or location labels. He combines these labels to identify, refuse, request and categorize more than a hundred different items. He has concepts of bigger and smaller, of category, of sameness and difference, of absence of information, and of number. We test him not only through direct questions about these concepts (e.g., "What color bigger? " Over the course of the last 26 years or so we've also pursued studies with other birds on a variety of different topics, some of which demonstrate very interesting parallels between vocal communication in birds and humans. Ten days! Now, parrots don't have a Broca's area.
Robert Sapolsky: Are Humans Just Another Primate? Danimations80's Channel. Natural selection.