Here is news I didn't especially want to hear.


Even though the facts seem to be clear


 enough to have been  published in Science.


Now what about my conscience?


Wondering whether  food can think
could drive a person to drink!

Or, if somewhat less contrarian,




at least to becoming  vegetarian.







Distinguishing  an  odd from  even number




is something that's never  done by a cucumber




and not  even the brightest stalk of asparagus




can prove the  theorem of Pythagorus. 

HZL
2/1/15


Pythagorean theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Wikipedia

In mathematics, the Pythagorean theorem, also known as Pythagoras's theorem, is a relation in Euclidean geometry among the three sides of a right triangle. It states that the square of the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.

‎Pythagorean trigonometric - ‎Right triangle - ‎Hypotenuse - ‎British flag theorem

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Chickens Agree: Left Means Less; Right Means More

By ERICA GOODEJAN. 29, 2015

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A study suggests that newborn chicks map numbers spatially, associating low numerical values with space to their left.  CreditRosa Rugani/University of Padova




Asked to picture the numbers from one to 10, most people will imagine a straight line with one at the left end and 10 at the right.

This “mental number line,” as researchers have termed it, is so pervasive that some scientists have argued that the spatial representation of numbers is hard-wired into the brain, part of a primitive number system that underlies humans’ capacity for higher mathematics.

Now a team of Italian researchers has found that newborn chicks, like humans, appear to map numbers spatially, associating smaller amounts with the left side and larger amounts with the right side.

The chicks, trained to seek out mealworms behind white plastic panels printed with varying numbers of identical red squares, repeatedly demonstrated a preference for the left when the number of squares was small and for the right when the number was larger. The research, led by Rosa Rugani, a psychologist who at the time was at the University of Padova, will appear in Friday’s issue of the journal Science.