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Horses can use symbols to talk to us
Scientists taught 23 riding horses of various breeds to look at a display board with three icons, representing wearing or not wearing a blanket. Horses could choose between a “no change” symbol or symbols for “blanket on” or “blanket off.” Previously, their owners made this decision for them. Horses are adept at learning and following signals people give them, and it took these equines an average of 10 days to learn to approach and touch the board and to understand the meaning of the symbols. All 23 horses learned the entire task within 14 days. They were then tested in various weather conditions to see whether they could use the board to tell their trainers about their blanket preferences. The scientists report online in Applied Animal Behaviour Science that the horses did not touch the symbols randomly, but made their choices based on the weather. If it was wet, cold, and windy, they touched the “blanket on” icon; horses that were already wearing a blanket nosed the “no change” image. But when the weather was sunny, the animals touched the “blanket off” symbol; those that weren’t blanketed pressed the “no change” icon. The study’s strong results show that the horses understood the consequences of their choices, say the scientists, who hope that other researchers will use their method to ask horses more questions.
i love everything about this but especially the last sentence
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No Dakota Access Pipeline print
100% of the profits from the sale of this print will go to the Standing Rock Dakota Access Pipeline Opposition donation fund. Protect our water, protect our planet, protect the sovereignty of the Native peoples of this country.
A drawing of the Dakota plains and the Missouri River with a large boulder being joined by many smaller rocks; the North Star in the sky.
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The White House’s Pete Souza has shot nearly 2 million photos of Obama. Here are his favorites.
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This song will eventually be added to and mixed and mastered and on my next solo album.
I don’t know if I will leave this one up for long but you can give it a listen. This week/month/year has been super unreal. This is a song about mental illness and anxiety and how it manifests itself inside my body.
There is a nod to Leonard Cohen at the end. He said:
“There is a crack in everything,
That’s how the light gets in.”I say something kinda like that.
Rest in peace Mr. Cohen.
The picture for this track is of me in the campus housing apartment that the party in the song was at. I was 19. That picture is from a couple months after neo-nazis threatened to rape and kill me but I got away and they killed someone I had been hanging out with instead. Asian kid. 17 years old. Crushed his skull.
The fact that Trump was elected and reading about all of the bold acts of hate that have happened in the past few days has me paralyzed. As if the systemic oppression and violence in this country, that has been a problem since this land was colonized, didn’t already have me fucked up enough.
Anxiety turned up to 11.
PTSDawson
There’s a whole lot of mess up in these tangles.
And cracks.
And light.
(I get knocked down but I get up again)
I am here for all my marginalized peeps. Black, POC, Muslim, Immigrant, Disabled, LGBTQI, etc.
It’s a long fight and I am in it with you.
But I gotta catch my breath.
Life is hard.
Don’t forget to take care of yourself.
And remember that I love you.
Kimya Dawson - Guitar, Vocals
David Yaya Herman Dune - Ukulele, Toy Piano, Slide Whistle
Recorded by Jason Carmer in San Pedro, CA
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