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Study confirms what all cat owners know
Any cat person will tell you that the most extraordinary honor a cat can bestow upon a human is the slow blink. Receiving a slow blink from your own cat is always lovely, but getting a slow blink from...
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Soon you may not even dream without people bothering you
Lucid dreaming company REMspace claims that they have enabled two individuals in separate locations to transmit a simple message to one another while lucid dreaming. In a recent experiment on September...
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Usha Vance defends husband's weird "cat ladies" insult on Fox News
Usha Vance appeared on Fox News yesterday in a prerecorded interview with Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt. Poised and prepared, Vance answered a few softball questions until about seven...
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Humans becoming whales in the Internet's digital ocean
Rebecca Giggs' book Fathoms, subtitled "The World in the Whale," is a deep exploration of those largest of Earthlings, from the abject despair of a whalefall to the yawning poetry of whalesong. The...
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The surprising history of giving someone the finger
Jerry Seinfeld has a funny bit (below) in which he reveals the absurdity of giving the finger: "Someone shows me one of their fingers, and I'm supposed to feel bad." Of course, it isn't just any...
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Dolphins recognize each other by the taste of their urine
Dolphins don't need to see or hear nearby family or friends to know they're around. They can just taste their urine in the water, according to new research published in the journal Science Advances....
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Scientific breakthrough: Man uses brain-computer interface to request beer
In a recent study published by Nature Communications, scientists from the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering in Geneva, Switzerland shared remarkable new details about a human being using a...
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Chimpanzees and bonobos greet each other and also signal their goodbyes...
Chimpanzees and bonobos greet each other and also signal their goodbyes, according to a new scientific study. The animals, the researchers write, "will orient their bodies toward each other, gaze at...
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Watch a bonobo and Peter Gabriel make music together
"We can use data analysis and technology tools to give non-humans a lot more choice and control," the former Genesis frontman, dressed in his signature Nehru-style collar shirt and loose, open...
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In "The Lonely Orbit," a satellite technician rediscovers connection
Benjamin Morard and Frederic Siegel's "The Lonely Orbit" features an inattentive satellite technician who crashes global communication. A delightful near-future sci-fi animation. The directors' notes...
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Talking with your hands directly influences what others hear
It's common for people to "talk with their hands" when conversing with others. Now, researchers show that simple hand gestures during face-to-face conversations can have a very direct influence on what...
View ArticleHow to speak chimpanzee
Evolutionary psychologist Katja Liebal literally wrote the book on Primate Communication. A professor of developmental psychology at the Freie Universität Berlin, Liebal's research focuses "on the...
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Online communication: "If you just message 'hi' and nothing else I assume I’m...
I have a friend who used to always put "Mark" and only "Mark" in the subject line of emails to me. It vaguely bugged me but I never told him to stop. Then I found out he did it to a mutual friend and...
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100,000 payphones still haunt the United States
You may not have noticed, what with there being a cellphone in pocket of almost all Americans, but according to CNN, there's still 100,000 payphone in the United States. This is great news for Maroon...
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Neuroscientist explains the same concept about the brain to a 5-year-old and...
https://youtu.be/opqIa5Jiwuw Bobby Kasthuri is a neuroscientist at Argonne National Laboratory. In the video he was asked to explain what a connectome is to 5 different people; a 5 year-old, a 13...
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Chart of every Nokia dumbphone from 1982-2006
Prepare to take a technological trip down memory lane with this enormous comprehensive chart of every Nokia dumbphone model starting 35 years ago. Extendable antennas, clamshells, you name it. (more…)
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Why the US Navy wanted to communicate using whale language
In the 1960s and 1970s, the US Navy researched whether they could use synthesized whale sounds for submarines to have encoded conversations across long distances underwater. Called Project COMBO, it...
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1871 plans map out the first circuit of the globe by telegraph
The Library of Congress site contains gems like this map showing the proposed final link of the original world wide web: the proposed trans-Pacific telegraph line, envisioned with Civil War-era...
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Notes on communication
John Scalzi's posted ten points about free speech, conversation, debate and related subjects. There's lots of good stuff there: "8. If people do not engage you, it is not necessarily because they are...
View ArticleThe difference between "being right" and "being persuasive"
If you're into science literacy — or, even, if you're just into arguing with other people on the Internet about science — you need to read this post by neuroscientist Chris Holdgraf. It's a great...
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