mi shares a report from ScienceAlert: The marshmallow test, or Stanford marshmallow experiment, is pretty straightforward. A child is placed in a room with a marshmallow. They are told, if they can manage not to eat the marshmallow for 15 minutes, they’ll get a second marshmallow, and be allowed to eat both. This ability to delay gratification demonstrates cognitive abilities such…
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The Pandemic Has Created a Middle Class Private Jet Boom
An anonymous reader shares a report: While the commercial airline industry has been largely grounded following various global lockdowns — with outbound international travel from the UK set to be banned on Thursday — private aviation has soared among new customers. Many of them are families. Once the preserve of millionaires and A-listers, business planes have been taken up by holidaying…
New Zealand Birds Show Humanlike Ability To Make Predictions
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Whether it’s calculating your risk of catching the new coronavirus or gauging the chance of rain on your upcoming beach vacation, you use a mix of statistical, physical, and social information to make a decision. So do New Zealand parrots known as keas, scientists report today. It’s the first time this cognitive ability has…
African grey parrots are smart enough to help a bird in need
African grey parrots are the first bird to pass a test that requires them to understand when another animal needs help and to provide it, something chimps and gorillas have failed to do Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2229571-african-grey-parrots-are-smart-enough-to-help-a-bird-in-need/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Parrot’s cries for help prompt police call-out
An ill-behaved pet parrot named Rambo recently prompted a neighbor to call the emergency services. The troublesome bird became the subject of a police… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/333550/parrots-cries-for-help-prompt-police-call-out…
World’s largest parrot was a metre tall and lived 19 million years ago
Palaeontologists working in New Zealand have discovered the first evidence of giant parrots, which they believe weighed 7 kilograms and lived 19 million years ago Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2212660-worlds-largest-parrot-was-a-metre-tall-and-lived-19-million-years-ago/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Past Tense: A Talking Dog, a Loch Ness Family: 15 Fantastical, Amusing Tales From the Times Archives
Ghosts! Billygoats! Lazy men and thirsty thieves! All these stories — and more like them — as they were dutifully reported in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/reader-center/april-fools-day-a-stranger-times.html?partner=rss&emc=rss