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Turtles found to communicate, care for young
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/140815_turtles.htm
Some turtles use vocal calls to stick together and to care for young, according to a study. -
Spaceweather.com Time Machine: Spooky Communication
"The skies over the Spanish island of La Palma offer many beauties, but on July 4th I witnessed something unusual: a ghostly green laser beam crossing the Milky Way," reports Jan Hattenbach from the Canary Islands. "I have learned that it was part of an experiment in quantum communication." . . . More: communication, quantum mechanics, nasa, scienceThoughts on mass extinctions and bees
Trolls, take note: No, this isn't a rant on the die-off of bees and other pollinators, so lower those flamethrowers and git.
In his book Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis, Rowan Jacobsen points out that the critical phenomenon in the life of honeybees is the hive, i.e., the colony, not the individual ( Read more... )Travelers: Beware hidden charges of credit-card calls from airport pay phones
Local News | Seattle Times Newspaper
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013949084_phones16m.html
Airline travelers stranded by winter storms across the country could have more than frayed nerves and depleted cellphones to contend ( Read more... )Of ansibles and FTL and where the hell is everybody?
It's possible that the problem we have with discovering a means of communicating or transporting ourselves across interstellar distances lies in our assumption that both communication and transportation have to be serial and linear in nature, that is, going from point to contiguous point to the next contiguous point in a continuous set of such ( Read more... )Magick and Evil
For those of you who believe Magick is evil, all forms of communication are Magickal in nature. All of them -- thinking (communicating with yourself), feeling (ditto), believing (ditto), speaking (communicating with others), writing (ditto), drawing/painting/carving/moulding/etching/building (ditto), sexual interactions (ditto), or even merely ( Read more... )