Ants could teach us a trick or two- traffic jam- Economist
When stuck in traffic, your correspondent is tempted to compare the competitive nature of motorists (himself included) with the co-operative behaviour of ants. He is intrigued by the way ants manage to avoid traffic jams. The first thing you notice when you watch an ant trail is the way the convoy never comes to a halt, no matter how busy the traffic.
Warning: this is not about ants, but traffic rules.
Dumb People:
Murder most foul- "Teenage gamer kills father for interfering with game"- Mosnews
The tragedy happened in the spring of 2008 in a well-off local family.
The boy had finished school and was driving his parents crazy by refusing to continue his studies or get a job. Instead, he would stay at home and play computer games.
After numerous attempts to distract the young man from the computer, the father took the machine and locked it in the parental bedroom.
Precious articles: "Man took 40 pairs of panties"- UPI
McMinn County Deputy Todd Levi said he spotted Jason Johnson, 31, trying to flag a vehicle down for a ride while walking along Highway 11 early Saturday morning and, upon closer inspection, the deputy found Johnson smelled of alcohol, was unsteady on his feet and had a pair of panties hanging from the unzipped fly of his pants.
Johnson had taked 40 panties from a pool party- he was arrested on charges of public intoxication.
More precious articles: "Man uses beer to entice alleged burglar to leave"- Yahoo! News.
Police said a homeowner in Maine used a beer to entice an intoxicated intruder to leave. The intruder apparently didn't realize that it was a nonalcoholic beer.
Man was later found trying to break into cars by smashing their windows, and was arrested.
Credit Card Horror: boing boing
"My lectures about financial responsibility appear to have failed: yesterday she charged $23,148,855,308,184,500.00 at the drug store. That's 2,000 times more than the national debt, which is a paltry 11 trillion. The ever-vigilant folks at VISA added a $20 'negative balance fee,' and have suspended the card."
Be happy.
This past February, I had the amazing experience of touching a baby Pacific Gray Whale in BahÃa Magdalena. It was incredible that after the initial encounter of 20 minutes the mother and the calf followed our tiny panga for a while. It sure made us appreciate a certain bonding aspect of this specific human-whale interaction. I posted the story and the video of this interaction -
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I visited your blog- the post really brought home your experience.
ReplyDeleteYou could also check this: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/06/whalepeople/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/magazine/12whales-t.html?_r=1&em=&pagewanted=all
The New York Times article describes experiences similar to yours.
Whales seem to be really intelligence and exuberant- but why are they happy to see humans- it is literally unbelievable.