From: David Grosof To: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation®gmail.com> Subject: Re: USVI Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:37:55 +0000 Here's a thirty seven minute lecture by Sapolsky that I attended, aimed at a general audience. I am sure there are deeper and more recent summaries, but the purpose is to give you a taste. https://www.youtube.comlwatch?v=TnlZwfD-GiU Enjoy, David PS By the way, someone as impatient as you might want to know that there are ways to download videos from YouTube and then play them at accelerated rate. A 37 minute video played at 125% normal speed is just under 30 minutes. With practice, it's possible to learn to watch or listen to 'content' much more quickly, without pitch distortion of the voices (the Chipmunks effect). On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 2:16 PM, David Grosof la wrote: They are clever. http://www.sci-news.com/biology/new-caledonian-crows-hooked-stick-tools-03535.html for loud, annoying yet interesting video clips of crows in the wild using tools. d. On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 2:11 PM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote: no i hve not , note the crows are also black :) On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 11:10 PM, David Grosof < > wrote: That reminds me....Have you stayed abreast of Robert Sapolsky's research and writing (baboons and people, mostly, but informed by other social animals, like New Caledonian crows)? d. On The, Sep 12, 2017 at 10:58 AM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote: blacks turn into chimps. its amazing to see On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 7:54 PM, David Grosof < > wrote: Thank you. As you undoubtedly noticed, there's a standard script for reports of 'looting': describing white people as requisitioning supplies in an emergency and describing non-white people as looters (especially if they're at the jewelry store and not the supermarket...). Rebecca Solnit (a SF-based lefty whose influence has soared after 11/9) researched and wrote an interesting book on how well and spontaneously many groups of people behave a