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- The Greater Honeyguide, a Bird That Understands Humans http://www.audubon.org/news/meet-greater-honeyguide-bird-understands-humans 11 comments
- Can you understand bird? Test your recognition of calls and songs https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/21/science/bird-calls-songs-quiz.html 42 comments
- Understanding financial levers – modeling the unit economics of Bird https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/10/how-to-understand-the-financial-levers-in-your-business/ 7 comments
- Harper understands Boo Birds https://www.thescore.com/mlb/news/1766311 48 comments baseball
- Crows Understand Analogies: What birds can teach us about animal intelligence http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/crows-understand-analogies/?wt.mc_id=sa_syn_rdfrs 312 comments science
- Australian magpies can understand other bird calls, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/17/australian-magpies-can-understand-other-bird-calls-study-finds 5 comments science
- Larry Bird can't understand why Lance Stephenson bolted http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/kravitz/2014/07/20/kravitz-larry-bird-understand-lance-stephenson-bolted/12916949/ 40 comments nba
- New Family Tree Revises Our Understanding of Bird Evolution https://today.ucsd.edu/story/computational-tools-fuel-reconstruction-of-new-and-improved-bird-family-tree 3 comments science
- AI to understand why solar farms kill thousands of birds every year https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://us.blastingnews.com/tech/2020/08/ai-to-understand-why-solar-farms-kill-thousands-of-birds-every-year-003186604.amp.html&ved=2ahUKEwjynMbcop3rAhUMAcAKHaBWB6QQ0PADMAB6BAgBEAg&usg=AOvVaw0wh5jyp6ZOLMSePWP51Gio&ampcf=1 6 comments technews
- We still don’t understand how one human apparently got bird flu from a cow https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/we-still-dont-understand-how-one-human-apparently-got-bird-flu-from-a-cow/ 50 comments health
- Trump’s budget director understands that the poor prefer jet fighters to Big Bird https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/03/16/trumps-budget-director-understands-that-the-poor-prefer-jet-fighters-to-big-bird/?utm_term=.4926adec4ee3 3 comments politics
- Trump’s budget director understands that the poor prefer jet fighters to Big Bird https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/03/16/trumps-budget-director-understands-that-the-poor-prefer-jet-fighters-to-big-bird/?utm_term=.9572c12c1413 5 comments politics
- Trump’s budget director understands that the poor prefer jet fighters to Big Bird https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/03/16/trumps-budget-director-understands-that-the-poor-prefer-jet-fighters-to-big-bird/?utm_term=.65ddd8d8e61a 9 comments politics
- Birds have developed complex brains independently from mammals - Birds have developed sophisticated neural circuits through their own mechanisms, without following the same path as mammals. This changes how we understand brain evolution. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1073454 18 comments science
- Ice Cube shares his struggles watching Larry Bird dominate: "I just couldn't understand how he was as good as he was" https://www.basketballnetwork.net/old-school/ice-cube-shares-his-struggles-watching-larry-bird-dominate 171 comments nba
- Bird flu in Canada may have mutated to become more transmissible to humans | Scientists are racing to understand what a hospitalized teen’s case of bird flu may mean for future outbreaks https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/19/bird-flu-cases-mutation-canada 63 comments worldnews
- Chickadee research finds cognitive skills impact lifespan: Study finds birds with better spatial learning and memory abilities (when it came to understanding their surroundings and food storing or caching strategies) live longer. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1057165 8 comments science
- Study suggests that Egyptian sky-goddess symbolises the Milky Way. Research shows that Nut’s role in the transition of the deceased to the afterlife and her connection to the annual bird migration are consistent with how other cultures understand the Milky Way https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1040873#:~:text=The%20paper%20draws%20on%20ancient,her%20backbone%20across%20the%20heavens. 8 comments science
- "I've made a lot of mistakes" Larry Bird on getting into a bar fight during '85 ECF. "The one good thing about all this is that maybe people finally understand that I'm human," Bird said "I make mistakes; I've made a lot of mistakes. I like to drink beer and go out and have a good time - I'm human." https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/i-ve-made-a-lot-of-mistakes-larry-bird-on-the-silver-lining-of-getting-into-a-bar-fight-during-85-ecf/ar-BB1krHa8 184 comments nba
- Scientists show experimentally that New Caledonian crows, a rare tool-using bird, prefer hooked stick tools for foraging and safely store them underfoot or in holes. Quantifying safekeeping behaviour helps understand how non-human, tool-using animals value different tool types. https://elifesciences.org/articles/64829 3 comments science
- Researchers have discovered a universal mathematical formula that can describe any bird's egg existing in nature, a feat which has been unsuccessful until now. That is a significant step in understanding not only the egg shape itself, but also how and why it evolved. https://www.kent.ac.uk/news/science/29620/research-finally-reveals-ancient-universal-equation-for-the-shape-of-an-egg 222 comments science
- Researchers in Japan have made the first observations of biological magnetoreception – live, unaltered cells responding to a magnetic field in real time. This discovery is a crucial step in understanding how animals from birds to butterflies navigate using Earth’s magnetic field. https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00158.html 367 comments science
- African grey parrots are smart enough to help a bird in need, the first bird species to pass a test that requires them both to understand when another animal needs help and to actually give assistance. Besides humans, only bonobos and orangutans have passed this test. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2229571-african-grey-parrots-are-smart-enough-to-help-a-bird-in-need/ 1442 comments science
- [Steve Kerr] To all you young NBA fans out there, please watch these highlights of Larry Bird. It’ll give you a better understanding of just how good and how dominant he was. I grew up a Laker fan and hated the Celtics but I couldnt take my eyes off of Larry. His play was almost surreal. https://twitter.com/stevekerr/status/1203488960590180353?s=20 36 comments nba
- [Steve Kerr] To all you young NBA fans out there, please watch these highlights of Larry Bird. It’ll give you a better understanding of just how good and how dominant he was. I grew up a Laker fan and hated the Celtics but I couldnt take my eyes off of Larry. His play was almost surreal. https://mobile.twitter.com/stevekerr/status/1203488960590180353?s=20 33 comments nba
- Larry Bird's response to a rookie Reggie Miller trying to get in his head while Bird was at the FT line: "Rook, I am the best f*cking shooter in the league. In the league, understand? And you're up here trying to f*cking tell me something?" Bird stared down Miller after nailing both free throws. https://www.complex.com/sports/2015/02/larry-bird-coldest-trash-talking-stories/ 678 comments nba
- "I would like to understand Sergio's 2 MB HF proposal rejection. It was shot down like a bird in a no-fly zone. The steps, time and by who." https://twitter.com/Egon_01/status/861977240078352384 12 comments btc
- Science AMA Series: Hello, I’m David Steadman, curator of ornithology— the science of birds—at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida. My research uses fossils and living species to help us understand how animals exist (or go extinct) on tropical islands through time. https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/5ylzrf/science_ama_series_hello_im_david_steadman/ 274 comments science
- Newsweek interviews ornithologists to better understand that time Randy Johnson killed a bird with a pitch http://www.newsweek.com/ornithologists-react-time-randy-johnson-hit-bird-pitch-440184?piano_t=1 3 comments baseball
- Crows could be the key to understanding alien intelligence: the first study of how abstract reasoning works in these birds' brains could shed light on how intelligence works in a truly alien, non-mammal brain. http://io9.com/crows-could-be-the-key-to-understanding-alien-intellige-1480720559 8 comments science