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Much like Shobana I'm coming into the middle of this (I liked her honesty that she didn't understand a thing LOL). What always keeps me riveted, however, is your expertise at writing.
posted by
Troosha
on November 29, 2010 at 12:46 PM
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Reading the first part of this blog reminded me of when I read about a horse that could supposely add. What happened was that the people showing off the horse were inadvertently cuting the answers (I forget how)...Indeed we made out well as a result of what happened 65 million years ago.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on November 29, 2010 at 10:09 AM
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You may have the begining of a great science fiction book, go for it....
I was forced to take typing in 9th grade by a nazi teacher who made us type over the entire page if we had one mistake. She also made us type everythig over if we dared to look at the typing pad, I didnt like her much, but I finished that class typing approx 100 words per minute, and now I can say that I am thankful for her. Very few teachers that I remember, funny how its the teachers I didnt like much that left a lifetime impression. And,,no its not too late for you to learn to type, and enjoy it. But, if you start now, by the time you finish you will no longer need it because you will be able to speak it and typing will be a dinosaur, or lizard...
posted by
Tzippy
on November 29, 2010 at 8:53 AM
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Nautikos
Í' Fascinating! BC-A, Bill’s RJLst
posted by
BC-A
on November 28, 2010 at 8:40 PM
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Furthermore... I have enjoyed this very much!
These past few decades we are discovering more and more about the nature of intelligence, and it is ever more clear that we are not the only highly developed intelligence on the planet, and let's just not make all the cracks about that that spring to mind... Also that we have yet to find a definition of intelligence that totally cuts out all other species, and thereby renders us Bestest and Uniquest!
Which is not to say we don't have some fine as well as questionable qualities--which can also be seen in our close kin, the other Great Apes.
posted by
Ciel
on November 28, 2010 at 8:24 PM
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And as to typing... I did take it in high school and flunked
and I would never have developed as a writer if word processing had not come along.
posted by
Ciel
on November 28, 2010 at 8:17 PM
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We might be pets.
posted by
Ciel
on November 28, 2010 at 8:17 PM
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Nautikos, I don't like to think of our forebears as '
burrowing rat-like things'. 
posted by
dizzilizzi
on November 28, 2010 at 6:08 PM
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Naut, I didn't understand a word of this but your observation and study is totally appreciated, thank you. (probably because I haven't been reading from the beginning - sorry!)
posted by
shobana
on November 28, 2010 at 2:49 PM
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I don't know that intelligence makes all that much difference
when a species is faced with an ice age that lasts a gazillion years. Big and dumb might freeze faster, or be caught in an avalanche, while small and smart (and burrowing) might adapt for a while. I think lack of food and air might eventually be problemmatic. In any case, I love learning about the ravens and their rationality.
posted by
Pat_B
on November 28, 2010 at 2:20 PM
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LMAO! Dark humour indeed! No zoo for me, thank you!
posted by
adnohr
on November 28, 2010 at 2:20 PM
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They say that Dino dung was dropped in huge huge piles
one wouldn't want that to land on their head.
posted by
Kabu
on November 28, 2010 at 11:37 AM
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I never thought I would be so pleased that dinosaurs became extinct! It could have been a mighty mess for the human! Shelly
posted by
sam444
on November 28, 2010 at 11:08 AM
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