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I will give it a try when I go to the beach next time.
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The Tongue doesn’t have Zones Specializing in specific Tastes :
The tongue doesn’t have zones specializing in specific tastes, contrary to popular belief.
It turns out this myth got its start when a certain Harvard Psychologist Edwin G. Boring mistranslated a German paper written in 1901 titled “Zur Psychophysik des Geschmackssinnes.” The tongue paper, written by the German Scientist D.P. Hanig, outlined Hanig’s research on the four known basic tastes. He got together a group of subjects and tested the main tastes on each of them on various parts of their tongues until he figured he had a good map put together on where they tasted various tastes the most. Being that, in reality, everybody more or less tastes everything equally with extremely slight variations that are more or less random from person to person, it can be presumed that he pretty much just made the whole set of results up so he could get another paper published and make himself look good to his university chums. And when the ‘translator’ Mr. Boring put some of his own ideas in the English version of the text it became even more ‘science-fictional’ (if possible).
In the 1970′s, scientists decided they might actually want to think about testing the commonly held notion of “tongue maps” that go against the personal experience of pretty much everyone who has ever tasted anything… ever. They quickly found out that Hanig’s paper would be better served as toilet tissue instead of reading material.
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Some people have a “natural alarm clock” allowing them to wake up when they want - This is actually caused by a stress hormone.
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Who owns the patent for this device?
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Nice article in WSJ on intelligence of animals-
Chimpanzees can remember a sequence of say 9 digits - even when digits flashed very fast. Humans cant.
Octopus have neurons on their arms - an interconnected brain. You cut an arm. The arm happily picks up its own food
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Elephant cant use stick to reach food. Cause its trunk is also its nose. Need nose to smell food. But give it a box. It will place front legs on box and reach for food. Move box away. It vetches box. Then puts legs on it...
Rats free other trapped rats before eating food.
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Sorry no fancy pictures ...
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^ohh..I like them both!!! :k:
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Check is in the mail.
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^thankooooooooooo :shoaby:
It is said a yawn works to send more oxygen to brain, therefore working to cool it down and wake it up 
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^ A direct correlation has been established between the increase in global yawns per capita with increase in global average temperature related to climate change with an R^2 of 0.9972. Similar correlations have been established regionally, with R^2 in the 0.9831 to 0.9985 range.
It has also been found that yawns per capita in absolute terms was proportional to regional temperature, with the Amazonians taking the yawning title going away.
Sleep centers have used this concept to place temperature-controlled heaters around the brain to gently warm the brain to overcome sleep deprivation.
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This just in. Truck drivers on long routes will have access to cooling icepacks around their head. Thermocouples sensing brain temperature will activate removal or insertion of insulation layers between the ice pack and the drivers head. The number of layers and their thermal conductivity will be finely tuned to provide sufficient levels of sensitivity to control the brain temperature within 0.1 deg C.
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box jellyfish is regarded as the most venomous creature in the world. Apparently, it seems to be beautiful harmless creature but venom in its tentacles can kill in a few minutes. Its antidote is vinegar. Applying vinegar on its sting can avoid disastrous results
ps: I wanted to post its image but somehow image icon is not there. posting link to its image
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Just remembered another point from animal intelligence article.
There was a German who claimed his horse was good in multiplication. Ask the horse 4×3 and the horse would beat hoof 12 times. It was later found when the German was removed from line of sight, the horse didn't have a clue. No fraud was detected. When horse neared the correct answer the German instinctively made some movements which the horse detected. So while its multiplication skills were suspect, it was intelligent to sense the correct answer.
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Aaliya please like above.
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Same with babies. When quizzed their moms would give answer away unwittingly with gestures and other reflexively signals. Which the little devils would be smart to sense.
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Elephants at first were thought to be not intelligent enough to recognize their reflection in the mirror. But that was because the mirrors were very small. Only part of legs seen.
Once a 8×8 ft mirror used elephant recognized a mark placed on its forehead and rubbed it away. Article ends with - we are constantly looking for intelligent life abroad. There is intelligence right here on earth. We just need to use right tools to find it.
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am sure the elephants thought, "Noooo… 
that is not me, I do not look like THAT! 
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