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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
- E. O. Wilson
Magpie - Pica Pica......
The Eurasian magpie or common magpie (Pica pica) is a resident breeding bird throughout northern part of Eurasian continent. It is one of several birds in the crow family designated magpies, and belongs to the Holarctic radiation of "monochrome" magpies. In Europe, "magpie" is used by English speakers as a synonym for the European magpie: the only other magpie in Europe is the Iberian magpie (Cyanopica cooki), which is limited to the Iberian Peninsula.
The Eurasian magpie is one of the most intelligent birds, and it is believed to be one of the most intelligent of all non-human animals. The expansion of its nidopallium is approximately the same in its relative size as the brain of chimpanzees, orangutans and humans.
Magpies were originally known as simply "pies". This comes from a proto-Indoeuropean root meaning "pointed", in reference to either the beak or the tail. The prefix "mag" dates from the 16th century and comes from the short form of the given name Margaret, which was once used to mean women in general (as Joe or Jack is used for men today); the pie's call was considered to sound like the idle chattering of a woman, and so it came to be called the "Mag pie". "Pie" as a term for the bird dates to the 13th century, and the word "pied", first recorded in 1552, became applied to other birds that resembled the magpie in having black-and-white plumage.
The range of the magpie extends across temperate Eurasia from Spain and Ireland in the west to the Kamchatka Peninsula. The species has been introduced in Japan on the island of Kyushu.
The preferred habit is open countryside with scattered trees and magpies are normally absent from treeless areas and dense forests. They sometimes breed at high densities in suburban settings such as parks and gardens. They can often be found close to the centre of cities.
Magpies are normally sedentary and spend winters close to their nesting territories but birds living near the northern limit of their range in Sweden, Finland and Russia can move south in harsh weather.
A study conducted near Sheffield in Britain, using birds with coloured rings on their legs, found that only 22% of fledglings survived their first year. For subsequent years, the survival rate for the adult birds was 69%, implying that for those birds that survive the first year, the average total lifespan was 3.7 years. The maximum age recorded for a magpie is 21 years and 8 months for a bird from near Coventry in England that was ringed in 1925 and shot in 1947.
The Eurasian magpie is believed not only to be among the most intelligent of birds but among the most intelligent of all animals. Along with the jackdaw, the Eurasian magpie's nidopallium is approximately the same relative size as those in chimpanzees and humans, significantly larger than the gibbon's. Like other corvids, such as ravens and crows, their total brain-to-body mass ratio is equal to most great apes and cetaceans. A 2004 review suggests that the intelligence of the corvid family to which the Eurasian magpie belongs is equivalent to that of great apes (chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas) in terms of social cognition, causal reasoning, flexibility, imagination and prospection.
Magpies have been observed engaging in elaborate social rituals, possibly including the expression of grief. Mirror self-recognition has been demonstrated in European magpies, making them one of only a few species to possess this capability.The cognitive abilities of the Eurasian magpie are regarded as evidence that intelligence evolved independently in both corvids and primates. This is indicated by tool use, an ability to hide and store food across seasons, episodic memory, using their own experience to predict the behavior of conspecifics. Another behaviour exhibiting intelligence is cutting their food in correctly sized proportions for the size of their young. In captivity, magpies have been observed counting up to get food, imitating human voices, and regularly using tools to clean their own cages.[citation needed] In the wild, they organise themselves into gangs and use complex strategies hunting other birds and when confronted by predators.
In Europe, magpies have been historically demonized by humans, mainly as a result of superstition and myth. The bird has found itself in this situation mainly by association, says Steve Roud: "Large blackbirds, like crows and ravens, are viewed as evil in British folklore and white birds are viewed as good". In European folklore, the magpie is associated with a number of superstitions surrounding its reputation as an omen of ill fortune. In the 19th century book, A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar, a proverb concerning magpies is recited: "A single magpie in spring, foul weather will bring". The book further explains that this superstition arises from the habits of pairs of magpies to forage together only when the weather is fine. In Scotland, a magpie near the window of the house is said to foretell death. An English tradition holds that a single magpie be greeted with a salutation in order to ward off the bad luck it may bring. A greeting might take the form of saying the words ‘Good morning, Mr Magpie, how are Mrs Magpie and all the other little magpies?’
Population:
UK breeding:
600,000 territories
So we all agree that those of us fortunate enough to be blessed with some creative fibres are damn lucky but It’s a commonly held theorem that as children we are all creative geniuses however with age we edge closer to black and white potatoes.
Where creative thinking within adults is a cognitive task - a child's approach is fun. Children don't give a toss about being creative, they just are. Why? Maybe because they aren’t worried about looking silly or care what others think. They don’t censer their thoughts, they’re who they are and the result is pure awesome creativity.
In the words of Pablo Picasso; “Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up”.
I’m by no means calling myself an artist and i do admit that sometimes I try to be normal, but it gets boring.
If the world without creativity is just “eh” than I want go back to photographing my dreams and try to make the world a happier place, one sunrise at a time.
This comparison of picture and the object of the picture would seem to be the defining cognitive delight of mimetic art. But there is an intellectual delight even more important than this, and that is the contemplative delight in the object of the picturing itself…
…The wonder of mimetic art is that it can make us feel so like how we feel in real life, but with feelings that remain circumscribed within a fundamentally contemplative attitude. Picturing allows for a powerful affective response to occur within a wider space of tranquility and reflection.
-Beauty and Imitation
A Philosophical Reflection on the Arts, Daniel McInerny
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
-St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Earlier this week, I almost got my feelings hurt again in Speech Therapy (which is for Memory loss and Cognitive impairment).
I was explaining to the SLP that it's really hard on me when I can't remember or do one of her tests. I said I was still in a "mourning" period over this latest loss.
She opined that it was "pride" ... which is not a word a born again Christian saved by grace likes to hear describing her. She is not saved nor born again, so her using that word to describe me wasn't said to hurt me really ... but she didn't understand what it meant to me.
So rather than get my feelings hurt, the Holy Spirit jumped in and started tweaking me. I thought about it all afternoon, night, and the following morning.
And then I had an epiphany ... a God moment. I realized that it was a form of pride and that's something the Holy Spirit could work with. I looked up "Humility" in one of my favorite books, which uses Scripture to respond to a topic title. "Humility" is the Christian word I looked up. And sure enough, I was blessed with grace and mercy reading through the verses and received Grace and Mercy and knowledge and wisdom.
OBTW, the next title two pages over was "Identity" which reminded me about all the wonderful things God thinks and feels about me.
I am healed and oh so thankful.
To Him be the glory!
Contemplating the expanding universe after consuming Daucus carota and Cucurbita moschata. Must be the β-Carotenes.
Power To Be (PTB) is the place to be — without a doubt.
After reading about it in Wednesday's Saanich News I just had to ride out on my mighty steed and take a look.
PTB is located at the foot of Prospect Lake.
N.B. In Vancouver Island logging jargon, The Foot of a lake is where it drains out.
Thus, the quickest route was to cross over from the Inland Interurban Trail via Viaduct Ave.
My cycling loop covered 40km and with all the photo-ops and sightseeing it took three-hours of my Earthly time.
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Partial Midjourney render. Post work done with Photoshop.
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The Institute of Cognitive Institutions today announce that longtime psychological model Maslow’s Pyramid has been revised by the Institute’s board of review, replacing self actualization with chocolate as humanity‘s greatest need...
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It is a place symbolizing the deportation of the Jews and other persecuted peoples to concentration or death camps. It is a place for memory and awareness, a multifunctional center for conferences, seminars and exhibitions so that past atrocities will never find refuge in oblivion. Most importantly, it is a venue for dialogue and interchange among cultures, teaching the new generations to overcome linguistic, cultural and social barriers so that the extremes of brutality witnessed in the twentieth century—the Shoah being the absolute nadir of human barbarity—can never happen again.
“In Jewish tradition, the command to remember is absolute. But its obligation does not end with the cognitive act of memory—it must be connected to both meaning and action. Today, we for whom the memory is burned in our hearts and on our flesh gather to pass the torch of memory to the next generation. We pass to you, as well, the fundamental lesson of Judaism: that memory must be accompanied by action of ethical and moral intent. This must be the foundation and the focus of your energies toward the creation of a better world.” (Yad Vashem)
Esso è dunque un luogo simbolo della deportazione degli ebrei e degli altri perseguitati verso i campi di concentramento e di sterminio. Ma anche luogo di memoria e di conoscenza; un centro polifunzionale dove ospitare incontri, dibattiti, mostre per ricordare le atrocità del passato e, soprattutto, dove creare occasioni di dialogo e di confronto fra le culture e per educare i giovani a superare le barriere linguistiche, culturali, sociali e perché la barbarie del XX secolo che vide nella Shoah il segno del massimo degrado dell’umanità, non possa ripetersi.
"Nella tradizione ebraica l'ordine di ricordare è categorico. Questo dovere, però, non si esaurisce con l'atto cognitivo del ricordare, ma deve essere connesso sia al suo significato, sia all'azione che esso implica. Oggi noi che abbiamo il ricordo inciso nei nostri cuori e nella nostra carne, dobbiamo passare la fiaccola della memoria alla prossima generazione. Vi tramandiamo anche la lezione fondamentale dell'ebraismo, quella per cui l'esercizio della memoria deve andare di pari passo con fini etici e morali. Questo deve essere il fondamento e il fulcro delle vostre energie per poter creare un mondo migliore." (Yad Vashem)
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Copyright Susan Ogden
i may be wrong about this....but i am thinking that cows are kinda dumb.
Take these two...who live on very large “ranch” with loads of land to roam, and yet they wander to the HUGE lake full of alligators and snakes, to munch on water lily leaves.
1. Are cows at all aware of danger?
2. Do cows think of anything besides food....or even think at all?
3. Are cows ruled by their stomach and is it larger than their brain?
4. Can cows be taught ANYTHING?
5. Am i on the right track by thinking they are really dumb?
Let’s debate this, shall we!?? Anyone else out there think they are kinda dumb!!?? Cute.........but dumb!!
Spinning stories, or storytelling, plays a crucial role in cognitive development for individuals of all ages, particularly for children.
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This is my first LEGO build that connects to the wider concept that I'm exploring in ceramics and hopefully glass.
The three rabbits are asymmetrical, but all follow the same basic structure. The damaged version on the left used recycled bricks that I've collected over the years - all damaged/ faded in some way.