I don't recognize the name, but the whistle is familiar:
Dolphins have long impressed people with their sharp minds and humanlike traits, such as calling each other by name, goofing off and even understanding numbers. Now a scientist has found that the mammals can recognize an old friend’s whistle, even after they have been apart for 20 years — the longest social memory ever recorded for a non-human.
Shifts in climate are strongly linked to increases in violence around the world, a study suggests.
US scientists found that even small changes in temperature or rainfall correlated with a rise in assaults, rapes and murders, as well as group conflicts and war.
Hoo, boy, here's a topic I'll bet 90 percent of the people in polite society don't won't to go near:
I guess it's fine that we now have "scientific confirmation," but, really, this is just common sense:
Burning question of the day -- "If the sun went out, how long could life on Earth survive?"
If you put a steamy cup of coffee in the refrigerator, it wouldn’t immediately turn cold. Likewise, if the sun simply “turned off” (which is actually physically impossible), the Earth would stay warm—at least compared with the space surrounding it—for a few million years. But we surface dwellers would feel the chill much sooner than that.
Why farmers scoff at climate change hype:
Not exactly an uplifitng message for those hoping for a better life:
"Perfect metaphor for the times" alert:
One of only a handful of a type of small bird from Asia to have been spotted in the U.K. in the past two centuries was thrilling twitchers off the northwest coast of Scotland earlier this week.
Then, tragedy struck. It flew into the blade of a wind turbine and was killed.
At least somebody's thinking ahead -- way ahead:
