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Scientists Taught Pet Parrots to Video Call Each Other—and the Birds Loved It

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I'm pretty certain it is true, Holly Root-Gutteridge mentioned it on this podcast posted the other day, and she has a good reputation in the bioacoustics community. She didn't talk about the program much, just casually mentioned it towards the end, which is what made me go looking for more information. It really is a very cool thing. Reminds me of this Future Of episode on dogs. On that episode they talk about something like this with the additional aspect of a rope under each screen hooked up to motors and sensors so dogs can play tug-of-war with each other over the internet!

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"Are you trying to make this OJ?": Jon Stewart warns media's Trump trial coverage could backfire

I didn't want to read this article, and couldn't find a video about this article about a video from the media about how the media is spending too much time covering trump, but here is the original video that is about how the media is spending too much time covering trump that this article is about.

Edit: for clarity sake, that link is just to the Jon Stuart video that this article is talking about.

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Official history of the world

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Thanks for the information, I had no idea that Pinker had such an anti-following. I've not read or even thought about him in years. I just vaguely remembered that that book did a lot to make me more thankful for the current state of things compared to how they used to be. I appreciate you letting me know that he is such a questionable fellow.