Showing posts with label intelligence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label intelligence. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Sea Lions Helped to Detect U-Boats

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1919 Design of Hydrophone Was Changed to Resemble Head of Acute Water Animal. In the late months of the war some wild stories were published...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Perseverance

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1901 With perseverance the very odds and ends of time may be worked up into results of the greatest value. An hour in every day withdrawn fr...
Sunday, July 15, 2007

The American Woman's Curiosity

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1910 "The American woman's intellectual characteristic is curiosity. One feels she would like to have ten pairs of eyes so as to se...
Friday, July 13, 2007

Child Is Wiser Than Man

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1910 His Instinct Often Is More Reliable Than the Wisdom of His Parents The imposition of any form of restraint on the appetite of a child i...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

The Smallest Human Brain

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1908 Proof That Size of Organ Does Not Measure Intellect What is believed to be the smallest brain ever found in a normal human being was re...

"Talking Hen" Is A Wonder

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1908 Aristocratic Chicken Refuses to Drink from Ordinary Vessel Atlantic City, New Jersey — A talking hen whose superintelligence puts to sh...
Thursday, June 14, 2007

What's Wrong, Lassie? Rover's In The Well?

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1910 Dog's Remarkable Intelligence Thomas Jones, who owns a big ranch on San Juan island, lost a collie dog last fall for nearly a month...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Horse Gets Shoe Repaired

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1910 Animal Leaves Barn, Goes to Blacksmith and Returns Without Owner's Knowledge NEW YORK. — "Old Joe," if he is blind in one...
Monday, June 11, 2007

'Frisco Has Child Linguist Prodigy

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1910 SAN FRANCISCO. — Leland Stanford University is to acquire a child prodigy of whom quite as great things are expected as of Harvard'...
Sunday, May 20, 2007

Animals' Power of Reason

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1910 French Scientist Advances Arguments to Prove Their Possession of Thinking Mind Professor Lipinay, who has made long researches into the...
Friday, May 18, 2007

The Instinct of Birds — A Storm Coming

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1901 While a British brig was gliding smoothly along before a good breeze in the South Pacific, a flock of small birds about the size, shape...
Monday, May 14, 2007

Animals' Memory — Remembering Places They've Been, Things Done

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1899 Animals' Memory Monsieur Henri de Parville, a French writer, has collected instances of animal intelligence, many of which are of a...
Sunday, May 6, 2007

The Pleasures of the Dull

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1874 Tormented by the pains of thinking, I have often envied the placid peace of those who cannot think at all. How delightful it must be, I...

A Home For All Kinds of Cats, Some Talented Tabbys

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1895 Our Boys and Girls A Home For All Kinds of Cats in Tennessee Some of the Talented Tabbys That Live There In Knoxville, Tenn., there liv...