“Decisions, Decisions”

Peter fidgeted in the chair his father had made out of an old conduit spool. It's knobby wood felt cold and splintery in his spongy posterior. He kept his head against the dangling light fixture to stay warm in what now seemed like a refrigerator. The house he grew up in would never feel the same.

From the description in the article, it sounds like the Kenyan/Fijian kids tested weren't that familiar with mirrors. Given that it also explicitly states that Gallup had to get the chimps used to the mirrors, maybe the level of comfort with something you haven't used much before is an issue?

Not being a marine biologist in any capacity, I'm curious as to how the dolphins and orcas were able to touch or indicate the dot on their bodies.

I am currently reading Present Shock, and have immensely enjoyed the two Frontline documentaries, The Persuaders and The Merchants of Cool. I frequently refer my students to these videos.

Do you think our current state of presentism is what has hijacked and stalled real human progress basically since the moon landing? It still seems obvious to me we have two 'frontiers' left open to us, one massive and impossible to really summarize in Space, and the other the entirety of the ocean we have crosse yet…

Well, isn't that the symptom of a "developed" world, where the only way forward is to regress?

Hey that's AD Skinner behind that hipster time traveler!

Maybe it's an unfinished bishop?

I don't know, it seems that Erle Cox's Out of the Silence (1919) was more relevant about where we were headed. A war over land and resources.

Even for a doctored image that's pretty damn awesome ^.^

Colbert and Hinduism, there's gotta be a story in there someplace.

haha that's funny... I think the voice is half the reason I liked him... it was so unexpected for a Hutt... But I also totally understand where you're coming from :D

Maybe it was just a jellybean.

Aww... I kinda liked Ziro... before he died... soooo I doubt he'll be back.

Gonna buy Husbands for sure!

I was a little unclear on that. Maybe it was just an evil forehead jelly bean?

Does no-one watch the show? Ziro he dead.