Monday, 26 September 2011

News from the Infinite Monkey Cage

I've just stumbled on this story - and really don't know what to say, except that the world of science seems more and more to resemble Swift's Academy of Laputa.
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6 comments:

  1. Tricia26 September 2011 at 16:07

    As you say - completely bonkers. They've too much time on their hands surely.

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  2. malty26 September 2011 at 16:13

    There's more, it's thermoregulatory apparently well, why wouldn't it be.

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  3. Nige26 September 2011 at 18:45

    Fascinating Malty! Funnily enough looking at that picture made me yawn - it's certainly infectious, whatever it does to the brain...

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  4. Gareth Williams26 September 2011 at 20:19

    The story's last three paragraphs are priceless.

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  5. Barbara Carlson26 September 2011 at 21:25

    "Also in 2003, Paignton Zoo carried out a practical test by putting a keyboard connected to a PC into the cage of six crested macaques. After a month the monkeys had produced five pages of the letter "S" and had broken the keyboard."

    If the educational system in America gets any worse, this "hands on" experiment may well be repeated ad infinitum.

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  6. Nige27 September 2011 at 16:01

    Indeed Barbara - in this country too...

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