TED Vancouver 01/11/17 : "Neuroscientist Greg Gage takes sophisticated equipment used to study the brain out of graduate-level labs and brings them to middle- and high-school classrooms (and, sometimes, to the TED stage.) Prepare to be amazed as he hooks up the Mimosa pudica, a plant whose leaves close when touched, and the Venus flytrap to an EKG to show us how plants use electrical signals to convey information, prompt movement and even count...
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Imagine a world without bees, as the most recent Time magazine cover story has us consider. Honeybees are the glue that holds our agricultural system together Hannah Nordhaus, author of The Beekeeper's Lament is quoted as saying. So the Time article asks what does this mean for our favorite foods ? The experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats asks a different sort of question. Since we are destroying their habitat, Keats wonders, was there a way in which we can find some sort of a common ground ?..
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Carolyn Gregoire 14/08/15 : "Can gorillas communicate verbally ? New research shows it could be possible. Koko has been called the "world's most intelligent gorilla". The 44-year-old western lowland gorilla uses over 1,000 signs from American Sign Language to communicate, and has gained a sophisticated understanding of spoken English through the help of a team of psychologists and researchers...
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