Random Announcements
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In two weeks' time Beatle will be here with us! HURRAH!
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hurraayyy …just booked airport parking, ready to paint
I am really just coming for the beer…and the company...can´t wait
We can do anything
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@monday:
http://ironheartwb.blog.fc2.com/
Fall 2011/Winter 2012 is coming
let the madness begin
Holy cow - YES YES YES!..
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hurraayyy …just booked airport parking, ready to paint
I am really just coming for the beer…and the company...can´t wait
It better not be. The Mackerel and Bass are in. So you will be getting your arse out of bed before sun up and hitting the beach with me…....
lol..did I ever get up after you ? fishing will be great !
We can do anything
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a certain character on sufu got banned very recently… how i feel for another batch of people on a certain thread...
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a certain character on sufu got banned very recently… how i feel for another batch of people on a certain thread...
Harbin?..
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Check this amazing goal by Neymar
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As Smart as the Primates
Intelligence research was done with pigs in the 1990s. One of the experiments was to train the pigs to move the cursor on a video screen with their snouts. When the pigs used the cursors again, they were able to distinguish between the scribbles they already knew, and the scribbles they were seeing for the first time. The pigs learned this skill as fast as the chimpanzees.
All species of pig are smarter than dogs, and capable of abstract representation. “They can hold an icon in their mind, and remember it at a later date,” says Professor Stanley Curtis of Penn State University, who discovered that pigs dominate at video games with joy sticks. Curtis goes on to say, “Pigs are able to focus with an intensity I have never seen in a chimp.”
Smarter Than a Three-Year-Old Child
Other tests were done where the pigs were taught the meaning of simple words and phrases. Several years later, the instructions were repeated, and the pigs still remembered what to do. The same thing was done with different objects placed in front of them. They were taught to jump over, sit by, or retrieve the item. Three years later, they could distinguish between the items.
The studies also showed:
Pigs lead complex social lives that behaviorists once believed to be true only of primates.
Mother pigs sing to their piglets while they are nursing.
They excel at video games that would be hard for a young child, and sometimes better than the primates.
Pigs dream.
Pigs have a good sense of direction, and can find their way home from long distances.
They learn from watching one another.
Pigs outsmart each other. One will often follow another pig to food before grabbing it away from him, and the pig who was tricked will change behaviors to reduce how many times it is tricked.Very random but hey…
