how are you still able to access archive.ph? do we need to put something in the hosts? All I've gotten there for the last month and a half is an nginx landing page.
Don’t get me wrong, this is very interesting, but there is something very funny about the idea that “give a chimpanzee stuff and see if they like it” is academic research.
Imagine if monkeys could communicate using crystals.
That would be interesting - human - animal language!
Research could lead into shit like cows TELLING us when feeling sick or know something etc. Food production, pets, police animals - a lot of potential uses.
The same as literally chemistry and rocks gave us transistors.
Almost no study is crazy.
Playing with glass gave us telescopes and microscopes.
there is something very funny about the idea that “give a chimpanzee stuff and see if they like it”
This is the premise behind the "Ignobel prize" – awards for scientific research which at first-glance may appear to be an April Fool's prank, but genuinely advance the cause of scientific research.
"the extent to which a certain kind of lizard chooses to eat certain kinds of pizza"
"what a nursing baby experiences when the baby’s mother eats garlic"
"some real plants imitate the shapes of neighboring artificial plastic plants"
NYTimes competing with NYTimesPitchBot for funnier headlines, I see. What a bizarre and awesome piece of science. I like crystals for the miracle of uncountable numbers of atoms transferring symmetry from the smallest scale to the visible scale.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 43.8 ms ] threadThis could absolutely be a headline on The Onion.
Research could lead into shit like cows TELLING us when feeling sick or know something etc. Food production, pets, police animals - a lot of potential uses.
The same as literally chemistry and rocks gave us transistors.
Almost no study is crazy.
Playing with glass gave us telescopes and microscopes.
https://improbable.com/ig/winners/
I’m willing to bet they will go after the smooth rocks and it’s about rarity, not crystals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHWs3c3YNs4
Nobody involved in the study or the article has ever done even a small dose of psilocybin and interacted with crystals.
and worse
https://www.livescience.com/animals/land-mammals/chimps-deve...