Monkeys Fall Into ‘Uncanny Valley,’ Just Like Humans
Monkeys are freaked out by almost-but-not-quite-real depictions of themselves. That tendency is well documented in humans, but has never before been seen in another species.
To test their preference, researchers showed macaque monkeys real pictures, digital caricatures and realistic reconstructions of other monkey faces. To the latter, the macaques repeatedly averted their eyes.
“The visual behavior of the monkeys falls into the uncanny valley just the same as human visual behavior,” wrote Princeton University evolutionary biologists Shawn Steckinfinger and Asif Ghazanfar in a paper published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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It remains to be seen how the monkeys would react to a simian version of The Polar Express.
Heh.
$1.5M Russian SUV Features Diamonds, Whale Penis Leather
Whale penis leather interior. That's all you really need to know about the $1.5 million Dartz Prombron Monaco Red Diamond Edition. Yes, the diamond-encrusted white gold gauges and gold-plated bulletproof windows are impressive, but seriously, whale penis leather interior.
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We have a lot of questions about this car, most of them whale penis leather-related....
Oh dear. I read "leather" as "lather" at first. Which is so much worse.
You know, getting an email for an all hands meeting 2 hours before it is scheduled is not the way to start a morning.
Ugh, Sarameg. I hope it is a happy news meeting.
TARDIS Cake
It's bigger on the inside!
The Tardis cake a quarter-scale (2 feet tall) and has LEDs and mirrors to create the illusion that the inside is actually larger. Everything that you see, with exception of the lights are edible.
