Evolution and Wisdom of Crowds
Friday, October 19th, 2007My friend Rob1 has written a nice article on Evolution and Wisdom of Crowds.
Footnotes:- BTW, Rob is an insanely smart fellow. I’m glad I got to work with him if only for a little while.↩
Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Simple Idea: Cheap Wind Power
Friday, October 19th, 2007This idea of cheap wind generators is pretty damn cool. I love the simplicity of the device and it’s relatively cheap components.
Crow uses tools
Wednesday, July 16th, 2003Wow! Science Magazine is reporting on a crow that made a tool to get to food:
In the experiments, a captive female crow, confronted with a task that required a curved tool (retrieving a food-containing bucket from a vertical pipe), spontaneously bent a piece of straight wire into a hooked shape — and then repeated the behavior in nine out of ten subsequent trials.
That is just too cool. There’s even a video of the event that is amazing to watch.
[as seen on boingboing and Hivelogic]
