Alex the African grey parrot would have been all over that if he were still alive :( He could even associate arabic numerals with actual quantities and was shown to understand the concept of zero.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_%28parrot%29

Excellent. I really needed a scard.

It's nice to see all the positive responses. The Deaf community generally disaprove of cochlear implants, particularly for children. Some go as far as to compare audiologists to Nazis performing a systematic genocide on Deaf culture.

@Eyes Wide Open, wait, these books have been banned in China too?

Pretty. It looks like a Hermes scarf :P

This makes me think of Sydney train guards. I was once with some friends who brought a friend who decided to drink on the train (which is illegal), and then ran off the train when he was caught. The train guards then proceeded to separate all the rest of us (who weren't drinking) on the train for individual interrogation on details of the drinking idiot, threatening us with charges of "obstruction of justice".

Are you sure this article isn't from The Onion?

"He did so exceptional"...

A similar demonstration was performed in The Genius of Charles Darwin, a documentary written and presented by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins as a simple demonstration of the non-random force of natural selection.

If the random keystroke (random mutation) is advantageous (i.e. closer to a specific Shakespearian verse), it is selected for, and that letter is retained in subsequent generations of otherwise gibberish keystrokes. As a result, it takes far less time to ultimately produce a Shakespearian verse than it would if there were no force selecting for advantageous keystrokes.

The idea was to show how Hoyle's fallacy i.e. "the chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way is comparable to the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junkyard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein" fails to take into account the non-random force of natural selection selecting for and retaining advantageous random mutations over generations.

Good for him. Now can he stop littering the ocean?

I don't think it's possible not to notice how manly Michelangelo's women were.

@myrasam79, it's true. We do :P

@myrasam79, chill. I didn't imply you were attacking me at all. I was just asking if you had any evidence to back up your claims as I am not familiar with health risks associated with red hair beyond sensitivity to the Sun. I didn't go on a wild Google chase because I happen to be trying to get an assignment done and I'm a little too busy.

@myrasam79, besides a higher sensitivity to sunlight, what health risks are associated with redheads, and what evidence do you have to suggest that that is the reason why women don't want redheaded children?

John Simpson Kirkpatrick is popularly considered amongst Australians and New Zealanders to be an ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) war hero who never touched a weapon.

"John 'Jack' Simpson Kirkpatrick (6 July 1892 – 19 May 1915), who served under the name John Simpson, was a stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) during the Gallipoli Campaign in World War I. After landing at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915, he obtained a donkey and began carrying wounded British Empire soldiers from the frontline to the beach, for evacuation. He continued this work for three and a half weeks, often under fire, until he was killed. Simpson and his Donkey are a key part of the 'Anzac legend.'"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Simpson_Kirkpatrick