Monster Algorithm

Because sometimes Tokyo is under attack and it's hard to know exactly who to hold accountable...

*Updated Version*
made some minor alterations, but then I stuck it to my window for a couple of months so it's a bit sun faded.

Black and White and Scribbled All Over

Corvus Frugilegus

This is what I learned in the New Scientist:

ROOKS appear to have a better understanding of how gravity works than do chimps and babies under 6 months old.

A common way of finding out whether animals and babies understand complex concepts is to show them images of impossible events. The rationale is that viewers spend longer looking at those which defy their expectations, presumably as they try to work out what's going on.

Chris Bird of the University of Cambridge and Nathan Emery of Queen Mary, University of London, showed rooks computer-generated images, half of which were impossible according to the laws of gravity, such as an egg floating in mid-air above a table. Almost without exception, the rooks spent more time looking at the "impossible" images than the possible ones. They also took more second glances (Proceedings of Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1456).

The responses were the same when the "familiar" egg shape was replaced by a cork, proving the birds' insight applied equally to any object, familiar or not.

The researchers say the result is consistent with rooks being able to solve complex problems from knowledge of cause and effect, rather than by trial and error.

(When I retold this story to someone I got a bit confused and said that they were smarter than a child under 6 years old. I think I overestimated a bit, but who knows? Maybe rooks can talk, but they just don't want to.)

Eagsharklion

I've been trying to figure out the most effective combination of eagle/shark/lion in the context of an all powerful super beast... this is what I have so far, but it isn't over yet.

RADVENT!

This is for Pom, wi wove wou x