From Harper’s March and April 2020 Findings:<\/p>\n
African penguins were found to be the first non-primates whose speech exhibits both the Menzerath-Altmann Law and Zipf’s Law of Brevity.<\/em><\/p>\n What? I read definitions for both of these laws; I need definitions for the definitions.<\/p>\n Veterinarians developed an ultrasound schedule for pregnant dolphins…<\/em><\/p>\n Shouldn’t that read “Pregnant dolphins developed an ultrasound schedule with their veterinarians”?<\/p>\n Southern white rhinos are threatened by inbreeding.<\/em><\/p>\n Yeah, well, there are so few of them so what are they supposed to do? They can’t just summon up a bunch of unrelated white rhinos for mating purposes.<\/p>\n A soggy Suffolk owl found in a ditch was diagnosed as too fat to fly.<\/em><\/p>\n Shameful.<\/p>\n …officials blamed the deaths of British black bees at Wisbech Castle on “morons.”<\/em><\/p>\n So many questions about this; I’m not going to start. Except to say Wisbech Castle was built at the command of William I, i.e., The Conqueror — a long, long time ago. The original exists now in name only. Which brings up a number of additional questions but I’m not going to start this again.<\/p>\n …a feeling of vulnerability to disease was found to predict political conservatism.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Harper’s March and April 2020 Findings: African penguins were found to be the first non-primates whose speech exhibits both the Menzerath-Altmann Law and Zipf’s Law of Brevity. What? I read definitions for both of these laws; I need definitions … Continue reading