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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.
I was amazed watching this fascinating Ted Talk, you have to see it to believe just how much Crows as a species have adapted to human beings.
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Now that has made my day!
At last, workers who you can pay in peanuts.
Pretty exciting for certain applications.
Comment by Rob L — June 3, 2008 @ 1:40 pm