This will be huge someday. Researchers have found a way to take the output of a neuron, or group of neurons, in a monkey’s brain and route them through electrodes to their destination muscles. Basically, they can bypass a section of nerves, meaning that at some point doctors will be able to reverse the effects [...]
Many are familiar with Monty Python’s skit about the “Norwegian Blue” parrot with “lovely plumage” that was “pining for the fjords.” Fewer know that the Norwegian Blue actually did exist, apparently. However, it has now “joined the choir invisible,” as it has been extinct for many years. 55 million years, according to one Dr. Waterhouse, [...]
Wildlife photographer Hal Brindley has caught on camera the first known case of a leopard attacking and killing a crocodile. The pictures are unbelievable. Via mollywood on Twitter.
This is the post that I was trying to get up on the 4th. Now I’m back to a normal internet connection and life is peachy. It is now approaching a quarter of a millennium since our founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, which is a long time in human years, but not so [...]