« It’s absolute rubbish, » says Warbuton. « There’s been a lot of work done over the last 15 years on learning and memory in fish and it has been found that fish are quite sophisticated.
Fish can remember prey types for months; they can learn to avoid predators after being attacked once and they retain this memory for several months. »
Chinesepod is a popular podcast to learn Chinese based in Shanghai. I love the lessons, for being fun and entertaining, and for the two main hosts, Jenny Zhu and Ken (the boss) who seem like happy fellows. It’s like listening to a radio brief talkshow, but you also learn a lot, as the lessons are very interactive. They were completely free before, there was a fee only for those wanting to get extra materials like scripts, exercises and so on, but now, looks like you […]
Three kids come down to the kitchen and sit around the breakfast table. The mother asks the oldest boy what he’d like to eat. « I’ll have some fuckin’ French toast, » he says. The mother is outraged at his language, smacks him, and sends him upstairs. She asks the middle child what he wants. « Well, I guess that leaves more fuckin’ French toast for me, » he says. She is livid, smacks him, and sends him away. Finally she asks the youngest […]
A boy catches his mum and dad having sex. He asks, « What are you doing!? » His dad replies: « Making you a little brother or sister! » The boy thinks about the idea, and says: « Do her doggy style, I prefer a puppy. »
What is a tomato wearing a cape? It’s Supertomato, of course! And what is a cucumber wearing a cape? A cucumber who thinks he’s Supertomato…
One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down…
It’s not natural to kill weaker than you because you can. If it was like that, you wouldn’t dare letting your kids out. Or your grandma. Or your friend in a wheelchair. Or your wife (or not without a scarf hiding her face). Or yourself? You don’t want to live in a world where dogs eat dogs, and where the stronger wins. So, maybe you could decide to not behave that way?