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more about #cognitivescience Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: This is cool. Octopodes seem to be much smarter than they need to be to survive. How did they get that way? Should we welcome them into the Federation? more » The_Sporean_Bob: Cthulhu is awakening! Soon the boneless ones shall rule us all with a...coconut-covered...tentacle. yeah, that doesn't really sound too threatening.... more » Alehkhs: For those of you crying that it's "no different from hermit crabs," perhaps you should click the link to read the actual article: "Finn argues that t... more » Facter: whats the difference between this and hermit crabs using shells for defense or protective measures? more » Julius Seizure - Canuck: So I guess we shouldn't be tossing small arms and tactical nukes into that part of the ocean then. more » NerD: Blattella: There was a story the marine biologists used to tell at my university about how the the octopus tank always had rat bones in it when they cleaned it o... more » phatnacky: Did anyone else hear zoidberg as it scuttled off. more » Godmars: So I guess the Discovery Channel was right: octopi will replace us instead of the cockroaches. Lets just hope they don't take a more active role in t... more » Lunargent: We're well and truly boned now. more » mordicai: I'm not clear how this is different from a hermit crab? more » FrankenPC: I'm convinced after humans are long gone, Octopi will rule the earth. Long live Cthulhu's children! more » Hamslicer: And who cut it so neatly in half for them? more » DasStan: Well, since no one is going to say it... I, for one, welcome our tentacley overlords. more » Hamslicer: If they had made a coconut bra, then I would be impressed. more » queensowntalia: Came to make a Monty Python reference, see I am far, far too late. :) more » erzwatts: It's too bad they cant light fires underwater. Otherwise I would be rooting for them to evolve to a level where they create an industrial society and ... more » eawarner001: Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate? more » hamshank: phah! If they're so smart, how come they're not hitting the two coconut shells together to make the ever-amusing sound of a horse galloping? more » Rumtum: Octopuses are indeed very intelligent. I have seen them manipulating "tools" in order to retieve yummy shrimp out of a bottle, and other complex manip... more » Roklimber: They also open jars. more » -
#madscience
Octopus Uses Coconut Shells as Portable Armor
Tools aren't just for vertebrates anymore. The veined octopus has been spotted lugging around coconut shells to serve as mobile shelters, the first time scientists have observed tool use in an invertebrate species. More » -
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#socialcontrol
Doctored Photographs Can Rewire How the Brain Remembers
People in Rome remember the 2004 anti-war protest as peaceful. But when university students in the United States looked at photographs of the protest later, they called it violent and disturbing. What happened? Was it a cultural gap? No — it was a doctored photograph, much like the ones the New York Times ran of an Israeli air raid on Beirut with a lot of extra smoke billowing over the city. The doctored Rome picture was used for a new study that asked whether small changes made in photographs could transfigure the way people interpret events depicted in them. More »
