MEMBER BLOG TAG: face
| Tuesday, August 26, 2008 12:13PM | | | | Crows Never Forget a Face | Tags: Crows, Ravens, Corvids, Face, John Marzluff,
| | | New research by John Marzluff has shown that crows and ravens can long remember the faces of individual human beings and also interpret their expressions. This is elaborated in an article in today's New York Times (Monday, August 26, 2008) entitled "Friend or Foe? Crows Never Forget a Face, It Seems."
We generally think of human beings as the great observers, but how many of us remember the individual faces of individual crows or other animals in the wild? Crows, perhaps alone among animals today, are constantly observing us and actively adjusting to changes in human society, while simultaneously retaining their autonomy. Other city birds such as pigeons and sparrows appear to be completely oblivious to us, while gulls may... | | | | | | | Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:53PM | | | | Human Rights and Ice Cream Cones | Tags: “Sometimes you have to put an icecream cone in somebody’s face.”
| | | | Witness: A Special Program for High School Students
With Uzodinma Iweala, Patricia McCormick, Amanda Michalopoulou, Jutta Richter, Kashmira Sheth
“Sometimes you have to put an icecream cone in somebody’s face.” This memorable sentence was uttered today by writer Jutta Richter.
Uzodinma Iweala, author of Beasts of No Nation, told a packed auditorium at the Istituto Cervantes on 49th Street that he had “gotten all dressed up to come and meet you guys.” Indeed, he wore gold cufflinks on his striped shirt beneath a navy blue jacket with a white trim, and caramel-colored pants and boots. He didn’t read from his novel, based on the lives of child soldiers in Nigeria, his country of origin, though he was raised in America and educated at Harvard. He braved possible unpopularity... | | | | | |
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