"When dogs learn new tricks, they do not simply copy what they see, but interpret it, suggests a new study, which provides evidence that man's best friend possesses a human-like ability to understand the goals and intentions of others."

Labels: animal behaviour, awareness, compartive psychology

"So this is what it has come to:
Two young artists (their demeanor an echo of 1960s creative
expressiveness), paid a pittance to playfully
market a surrealist cartoon movie starring several talking
base-level consumer commodities, have been labeled semiotic
terrorists and criminals by official reality. What does this
political panic reflex, played out in the gerontocratic and the
politically correct Commonwealth of Massachusetts, tell us?"

Labels: awareness, gerontocratic, social