Lifeboat Foundation

It has long been known that humans are very intelligent, often thought of as the most intelligent. However, could there be something far more intelligent that blows us humans out of the water? Quite a lot of people think the answer to that question is yes. What is it though?

A study from last year (2018) suggests that Dolphins are highly intelligent creatures, so much so that they may surpass human intelligence in some respects. One of those ways being self-awareness. The study used was a mirror-self recognition (MSR) test which basically consists of presenting a mirror to the test subject and seeing how long it takes them or it to recognize themselves.

When presented with a mirror, human infants aren’t usually able to recognize themselves until they are around 12 months old. Bottlenose dolphins, on the other hand, are able to recognize themselves at just seven months old. The experiment was done on both male and female dolphins to get a range of results.

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Complex decisions that sapient beings must make.

What if great white sharks threaten sea otters? Dilemmas are on the rise in an increasingly disrupted environment.

• By David Shiffman on June 3, 2019

There’s a giant contradiction in the middle of the Arizona desert: an experimental city designed for thousands that now contains only a few dozen inhabitants.

For nearly five decades, a group called the Cosanti Foundation has been working to build a city that would inspire a new future of urban design. Today, the project is only 5 percent complete.

Called Arcosanti, the city was envisioned by Italian architect Paolo Soleri, whose dream was to create an advanced urban laboratory where everyday activities could be powered by Earth’s natural resources.

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Forensic anthropologist Amy Mundorff measures the depth of a grave as the remote sensing research project gets underway.

Amy Smotherman Burgess/Knoxville News Sentinel/Zuma.

Mundorff knew from her own searches for buried murder victims in the United States that investigators often fail locate hidden graves, but she didn’t expect it to be so difficult in Bosnia-Herzegovina: The country is smaller than Louisiana, and the whereabouts of 8,000 people remain unknown.

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Keele University researchers published a review which sets out best practice when it comes to finding bodies on land, including ground penetrating radar methods to image the subsurface.

Futuristic rifles may decide who to shoot.

Target acquired.

Microsoft Windows 10 users, you have a serious upgrade problem which you need to know about…

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//–> NEW! Use these interactive tools to view and download real-time, full-resolution satellite imagery.

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