Young Chimp Beats College Students

NEW YORK - Think you're smarter than a fifth-grader? How about a 5-year-old chimp? Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in tests of short-term memory, and overall, the chimps won.

That challenges the belief of many people, including many scientists, that "humans are superior to chimpanzees in all cognitive functions," said researcher Tetsuro Matsuzawa of Kyoto University.

"No one can imagine that chimpanzees , young chimpanzees at the age of 5 , have a better performance in a memory task than humans," he said in a statement.

Matsuzawa, a pioneer in studying the mental abilities of chimps, said even he was surprised. He and colleague Sana Inoue report the results in Tuesday's issue of the journal Current Biology.

One memory test included three 5-year-old chimps who'd been taught the order of Arabic numerals 1 through 9, and a dozen human volunteers.

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Bees briefly halt cricket Test

KANDY, Sri Lanka - A swarm of bees briefly halted play in the cricket Test between Sri Lanka and England on Tuesday when they flew across Asgiriya Stadium, forcing the players to all lie motionless on the ground.

The bees were first spotted by Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf, who laid down on the field during the fourth day of the first Test between the countries. The players soon followed, with both teams remaining on the ground for several minutes until the bees moved on.

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Gorilla shows the birdie

From Nothing to do with Arbroath.

If I had a single paise

If I had a single paise I would not know what to do with it.

I mean, its worthless right now, what with inflation and everything. I’d rather be better off with a piece of some other metal, like gold, hehehehe.

"Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid." LINK

Love

"Love is a razor and I walked the line On that silver blade" - Iron Maiden - Evil that men do

Death

Painful end to a painful beginning.