In an unscheduled break from Covid, here's a corvid ruining a cat's day.
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Mar 26, 2020
Corvid vs cat
Crows being trained to pick up trash at French park
You can befriend crows and, apparently, also train them to pick up trash by rewarding them with food. The Guardian: Six crows trained to pick up cigarette ends and rubbish will be put to work next week at a French historical theme park, according to its president. “The goal is not just to clear up, […]
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Crows hold "funerals" for their dead and this very weird experiment revealed why
According to researcher Kaeli Swift of the University of Washington’s Avian Conservation Laboratory, crows hold “funerals.” When they see a corpse of their own kind they gather together and squawk loudly. To determine what they may be doing, Swift displayed a taxidermied dead crow to other crows. On some days though, she wore a creepy […]
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How to befriend your neighborhood crows
Befriending crows doesn’t appeal to me much. Their dark and ominous ways freak me out a little. My neighborhood murder (which really says all you need to know, doesn’t it?) perch in the tree outside my front door for hours at a time, squawking loudly, presumably at my indoor tabby cat who’s imprisoned behind the front […]
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YogaDownload brings your yoga studio to your home instantly
Yoga studios are closed nationwide. The irony is that between the anxieties of the outside world and those popping up inside your very own home with everyone trapped indoors, there’s probably never been a time where yoga’s calming zen was more vital and needed. Rather than just throwing in the yoga mat and subjecting family […]
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Amazon Web Services and Azure control half the cloud market. This training can help you handle both.
The workers aren’t inside their physical business space anymore. So why should business technology still be under that roof either? In fact, more and more businesses have been making this migration for a while now, moving all their digital infrastructure to the world’s two largest cloud services platforms, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft’s Azure. […]
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Your barista may be at home, but that doesn’t mean your coffee game should suffer
Gather round, young and old — and hear tales of bygone days. Back in olden times, citizens would mass at a house of coffee, wherein skilled java alchemists would concoct special blends and apply artisanal wizardry to make each steaming chalice an appointment for the taste buds. Granted, said wizards, once known as baristas, were […]
