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Does Your Language Shape How You Think?
This is a fascinating link that describes how in many languages you always refer to yourself and give instructions in a geographical manner: move your foot North for instance.  This means that all the speakers of these languages always know their orientation. We know that  language controls what we think but this use of language gives…
Fiona Duncan’s Dolphin sighting
When I was 21 – many years ago – I was working as a cook on charter yachts in the Caribbean and America. For a short time, I joined a strange craft called Alianora, an ancient and battered wooden sailing yacht which we were taking from Newport, Rhode Island to Florida where we were to…
The efficiency of varying methods and degrees of time compensation for the solar azimuth
This paper on navigation using the sun is an interesting one by Richard Massy and Karl R. Wotton. Â Already Tristan Gooley the natural navigator and one of our heroes walked across Crete to prove that the brain can in fact compensate for the movement of the sun during the day and keep a course by…
Does your dog wait for you (their owner) to come home? – An experiment
Please participate! An experiment to see how dogs respond to their owners. Does your dog wait for you (their owner) to come home? If this is your case please participate in this experiment. Introduction Rupert Sheldrake is a hero of ours and has written a book we have reviewed “Dogs that know when their owners are…