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Goldfish Smarter Than Dolphins 530

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday August 21, 2006 @02:46AM from the flying-in-the-face-of-popular-opinion dept.

flergum writes "While dolphins may have big brains, laboratory rats and goldfish can outwit them. It appears that the large brains are a function of their environment rather than intelligence. From the article: 'Dolphins have a superabundance of glia and very few neurons... The dolphin's brain is not made for information processing it is designed to counter the thermal challenges of being a mammal in water.' I guess this means that the Navy will start recruiting and training goldfish for those mine search and destroy missions."

Comment Anime Reference (Score 1) 94

by chiao on Sunday July 23, 2006 @06:51AM (#15765472) Attached to: Anna Konda, the Robotic Firefighter

Anyone remember the self-assembling, fire-fighting tube / triangle things in Metropolis? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(2001_film )

Numbers Stations Move From Shortwave To VoIP 228

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday June 01, 2006 @09:51PM from the something-to-puzzle-over dept.

IO ERROR writes "For decades, intelligence agencies have been sending secret messages to their agents in the field using shortwave numbers stations broadcasting encrypted messages for all to hear and puzzle over. Now someone is putting numbers stations on VoIP telephone numbers for anyone to call, and posting messages to Craigslist to alert the recipients to the existence of their messages. One of them went up last month and now a second one has appeared. Will there be a third? Who's behind them? And can you crack the code?"

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