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unitedacademics··on Is Google Destroying Our Memory?
Apologies. The link should be working properly now. Thanks for pointing that out. About the transactive memory, there is also a nice article, on scientific american magazine, about the topic: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-internet-has-b...
unitedacademics··on City Birds Are Smarter Than Rural Birds
Sure. Even though humans are still shaped by natural selection, we now have to consider that we are evolving in a balance between culture and biology. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/04/natural-selection-sti... (This article has some interesting (and controversial) remarks on the role of natural selection in humans).
unitedacademics··on City Birds Are Smarter Than Rural Birds
The researchers wanted to test whether city birds had 'higher boldness, reduced neophobia, and enhanced problem-solving and learning skills'. These specific test was done to see whether they could guarantee reproducibility of the results. Something like a control