Monthly Archives: July 2009

Our New Masters

Holy crap, monkeys recognize poor grammar. So they’re already a step ahead of half of the employees at your local Walmart. This is the first step toward Planet of the Apes.
That's one smart monkey. [Click pic to buy this tee.]

That's one smart monkey. (Click pic to buy this tee.)

“Previous research in cotton-top tamarins had shown that the animals can understand basic grammar, for instance, identifying which words logically follow other words in a sentence…While that study suggested monkeys were deaf to complex communication, the new research shows that tamarins can grasp at least one advanced concept: prefixes and suffixes.”

Read the full story at National Geographic. Oh, and by the way, monkeys already have thumbs and can subtract. So, yeah, we’re screwed.

Try a typo

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Low-Carb Diet?

OK, I’ve been lagging in getting everything posted that you guys have been sending. Sorry.

breadfast

I should, but I know I won't.