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POPSTracking the Origin of the Cat Cats probably started living close to humans when people evolved from nomadic herding to raising livestock and crops and started storing food, which attracted mice and other rodents. Cats found good hunting there, and humans surely appreciated the sly little predators' help protecting their stocks."There was a mutual benefit," Lyons said. From there, domesticated cats started to radiate out to different parts of the world, often following humans on their migrations. Today cats can be divided genetically into four broad groups: those from Europe, the Mediterranean, East Africa and Asia. But Lyons and her colleagues also made surprising discoveries about individual breeds. The Japanese bobtail, for example, does not seem genetically similar to cats from Japan, indicating the breed may have originated elsewhere. Despite its name, the Persian, the oldest recognized breed, looks as though it actually arose in Western Europe and not Persia, which today is Iran.
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POPSMeet The Cuttlefish - Science If you have never heard of the cuttlefish, you are in for an amazing discovery. This animal has evolved some astonishing survival strategies. If this doesn't convince you of the scientific theory of evolution, NOTHING WILL. Watch, Listen and Learn. Carolyn View Video Here http://www.thethinkingblue.com/swf/maddiecousin.html
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POPSKill the cat that kills the bird? Interesting article about the conflict between cat lovers and bird watchers. There is good evidence that America's large population of feral cats has decimate bird populations, including endangered species. Bird watchers advocate culling feral cats, which cat lovers do not want to do. The story focuses on Jim Stevenson, who was tried for shooting and killing a feral cat in defense of some piping plovers, an endangered species.
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POPSPentagon Admits Use Of White Phosphorous Chemical weapons. How deep into the moral abyss can the US sink? There seems to be absolutely no limit. WARNING: The video contains very graphic images. Fallujah - The Hidden Massacre
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POPSAlex the parrot, zeros, and death Dr. Pepperberg reported the result with appropriate understatement: “That zero was represented in some way by a parrot, with a walnut-sized brain whose ancestral evolutionary history with humans likely dates from the dinosaurs, is striking.” In a well-known essay, “What Is it Like to Be a Bat?” the philosopher Thomas Nagel speculated about the elusiveness of subjectivity. What was it like to be Alex that last night in his cage? We’ll never know whether there really was a mind in there — slogging its way from the absence of a cork-nut to the absence of Alex, grasping at the zeroness of death.
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POPSThe Private Life of a Cat This is a 22-minute 1947 film about a "family" of cats. It is a very cute and sweet film. The video should load by clicking on the picture (either in this clip or at the source material). By the way, I'm not clipping the video itself because videos are now segregated from clips and I think not many people are going over to the video side of things.
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POPSHamster loves cookie I can't get this hamster out of my head. According to a commentator on Cute Overload, she is dancing to the "Fossils" movement in Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals.
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POPSThe problem with panda bears This was written back in 1999 when a famous panda died at the Washington National Zoo. I have always remembered this piece, especially the part about the panda mother sitting on her baby.
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POPSRomanian extras sue Borat Regardless of whether or not the Romanian town has a legal leg to stand on, the filmmakers of a movie that has grossed millions don't come off looking too good when they defend themselves by saying they donated $5,000 to the town. Some news reports are saying that ironically the town is predominantly Gypsy (ironic because Borat expressed anti-Gypsy sentiments), but I wonder if that is just confusion between Romania and the Roma (Gypsy) people.
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