“Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!”
Throughout Mo Willems’s 2003 book, the reader is sternly instructed not to let one determined pigeon take the wheel of the bus when the driver takes a break. But the authors of a paper published online this year in Animal Cognition (and titled, in a refreshingly contrarian fashion, “Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus”) disagreed with Mr. Willems’s exhortation. The authors examined captive pigeons’ ability to navigate the traveling-salesman problem, a classic computational puzzle that asks you to devise the shortest round-trip route that stops at each city once.
Pigeons were tasked with finding the most efficient route between a handful of feeders holding yummy peas. While the results did not speak to the ability to keep up with a bus timetable, pigeons turn out to be highly skilled in planning efficient travel routes, an ability that is wanting in some human bus drivers.
Lest clarity mar the magic of childhood, we will stop there, and be sure not to tell you where the sidewalk ends, where the wild things are and how the Grinch actually stole Christmas
Chalant
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With enough brick and mortar, we could make a man out of you.
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2012-01-01 2 notes
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2011-12-26 2 notes
The drama of deep focus: such arty cheese and crackers deserve it.
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2011-09-23 7 notes
Source: la.curbed.com
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2011-09-04 3 notes
Welp
After getting drunk off a month’s worth of runs last night, I woke up on the roof this morning with one hand in a jar of peanut butter, and the other hand holding a Walkman loaded up with a mix from ‘92. Wasn’t sure how I got there. Pushed play, and there was some sweet, sweet Trixter coming through the headphones. Then I threw up.
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Design
wears black, gray, & white; occasionally brown shoes.
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2011-08-25 3 notes
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Something of a raison d’être around here.
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The internets got stupid.
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2011-07-27 7 notes
Oh Leigh. No one did it like you.
Source: smokeandacoke
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Mine Okubo, Citizen 13660
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