A Cool Way To Get To School
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Kids in a remote mountain town and there is only one easy way to make it to school. Zip cord. Crazy. I couldn't do it.
They're in mountainous Las Piñas, Columbia. They ride a zip line over a gorge. The zip line is so long and high that they can't see the other end.
Experimental Psychology - Change Blindness
Not so much funny as interesting. I'd bet some con artists take advantage of this phenomenon. It's like a Candid Camera stunt.
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A special case of information-selection by the human cognitive system. The brain seems to select the information worth processing, or most relevant, at every instant, in almost every context. This might produce some very specific phenomena such as what psychologists call "Change Blindness."
Stand By Me - International Version
TEDTalks: The amazing intelligence of crows
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Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. [[Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he's come up with an elegant machine that may form a new bond between animal and human. [[2008)
And I'm still trying with limited success to train our squirrels to clean our rain gutters by foraging for peanuts there.