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Indeed... 👍 This animation actually explains relativity pretty well, such that it does make sense...
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Danoff
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I was walking my dog the other day and we came across a stream. I knew he was thirsty so I let him drink the water. He started lapping it up but the water wasn't deep, so he wasn't able to get much at a time. He used his paw to dig under the water to create a pool so he could drink more efficiently.
My dog had never seen a stream before. He'd never had occasion to learn how to create a pool of water to drink from. The only thing I can attribute to this skill is instinct - and that blows me away.
My dog had never seen a stream before. He'd never had occasion to learn how to create a pool of water to drink from. The only thing I can attribute to this skill is instinct - and that blows me away.
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. its surprising how much you can learn in a year and a half.
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I wonder if it has more to do with the fact that you've never seen your dog in this situation before... pet dogs only get to do what their owners let them do, and as a consequence, owners rarely see what dogs would do if they had half a chance... dogs do dig instinctively, my Mum's garden is bona fide evidence of this fact (or should that be bone-a-finding evidence?), and they will do anything for food. That said, it's still pretty cool!
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For sure he's had the opportunity to dig. But I've known where he's been his entire life, and he'd never seen a stream or pond. The closest he might have come would be a puddle on concrete. There isn't anything that he'd have had access to where a puddle or stream would accumulate over soil (it all just soaks through). If anything, a concrete puddle should teach him that he specifically can't do what he did.
I'm quite confident that it was the first time he'd ever used his paw to make a pit for water to flow into. And he did it on the first try, without hesitation.
I very much doubt that a human child would be able to accomplish the same feat.
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I guess this was Russ. Labrador retrievers are famous for their intelligence in problem solving and adaptability - plus they much prefer learning tricks to actual physical exercise. They like to keep their brains active.
Indy, when she isn't sleeping, is particularly good at ad hoc solutions. Like when we found her asleep on the sofa, having put her into her cage - and the cage itself was intact and locked. Or, mid-ball-throwing game with the pair of us, she stopped to steal and hide the water pistol I'd been chasing her with, to then resume ball fun.
They're incredibly adaptable (and soppy) creatures.
Indy, when she isn't sleeping, is particularly good at ad hoc solutions. Like when we found her asleep on the sofa, having put her into her cage - and the cage itself was intact and locked. Or, mid-ball-throwing game with the pair of us, she stopped to steal and hide the water pistol I'd been chasing her with, to then resume ball fun.
They're incredibly adaptable (and soppy) creatures.
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Indeed it was Russ. Even if it wasn't instinct, but problem solving instead, I'm still impressed that with the very first presentation of flowing or standing water on soil he was able to immediately deduce that he needed to make a pool.
Either instinct or problem solving, it's pretty impressive. It's almost more impressive if it was problem solving.
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I was speaking with a friend about celebrities that we've met, and he had an interesting story about meeting Merrill Streep on a mountain climb in Peru.
It got me thinking about the likelihood (in actual odds) of candidly meeting a certain celebrity. Your odds are probably best at say, an L.A. night club or shopping on 5th Avenue. What are the actual odds of meeting an A-list celebrity on a random mountainside in Peru? Barring silly propositions like under the Atlantic Ocean, he had probably struck the thinnest odds possible for running into someone like that in a place like that.
It got me thinking about the likelihood (in actual odds) of candidly meeting a certain celebrity. Your odds are probably best at say, an L.A. night club or shopping on 5th Avenue. What are the actual odds of meeting an A-list celebrity on a random mountainside in Peru? Barring silly propositions like under the Atlantic Ocean, he had probably struck the thinnest odds possible for running into someone like that in a place like that.
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My guess would be that his odds of running into anyone while mountain climbing in Peru would be low. But if you limit the number of people to a select few A-list celebrities, you're talking about lottery-style odds.
I think it's funny when ridiculously unlikely things like this happen and people don't really take notice. But if it's something that's important to their lives, suddenly it must have been God.
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I saw Rick Astley stepping out of a taxi once.
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We were discussing the concept of "passing" the other day in my Feminism class, and things got heady fast. Quite literally my mind was blown. Eventually we got to the point at which we realized that we were passing just by accepting the fact that passing was a reasonable form of protest, being accepted into that group outright. Then someone asked if passing ever really ends, and it was a 20 minute downward spiral to nothingness. Not only was it intellectually stimulating on many levels, it was also completely confusing.
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Passing is a term used to describe the action taken by someone who wishes to act differently, dress differently, think differently, etc to fit in with a particular group or expectation. So, for example, there are some homosexual people who attempt to pass as heterosexuals by changing their clothes, the things they do, or the way they act in order to be accepted as "normal." Some guys attempt to pass as "tough," girls may dress provocatively to pass as "feminine," etc.
Technically speaking, we all do it, although for different reasons.
Technically speaking, we all do it, although for different reasons.
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Once I told a friend of mine that our conciousness is immortal. That's why we don't remember being born. Because our conciousness has been alive for years before that, and why after we die, our conciousness will go on and on. Until at a time, we will reborn and after a while, we will forget to ever have been born and so on... Deep 🤬, very deep 🤬.
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I prefer the other view on life: We're completely, absolutely, unimportant. Once we, or any other creature , die - we cease to exist. We remain as a bunch of disfunctional organs, but there's no afterlife or prelife, since we're all just big coincidences that happened to create a living being, which slowly, in another long row of coincidences, gained sentience - which is lost as soon as our brain stops ticking.
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We humans have trouble understanding the meaning of "nothing". There must be something. The beginning of the universe? Well, there must have been something then in order for there to be something now. Something can't come from nothing. So I simply can't imagine there being nothing after you die. There's something now, where does it go? We've got the chemistry part down pretty well, but what about the stuff inside your brain? Your awareness and knowledge and all that. I'll be determined to stay alive while I die to find out what happens.
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I saw Dominic Littlewood in a Leeds Premier Inn once. Does that count? And Melinda Messenger too, for that matter.
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When I was younger, I would tell my mom its that its like a camera through my eyes. I couldn't really explain it but to put in simple turns like its my life. Only if Life had different Camera angle option, it would make things easier and harder for us. The meaning of life is the meaning of life, there is no explanation to it but there is. So if you ask why then the answer is why but yet it is the question.
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