A Michael Broad Blog
By ‘thicker’ I mean more stupid. Here are two clear examples concerning one search term. The search term is: “In general, humans don’t like their anatomy. INFOGRAPHIC“. As I created the infographic, I know what it is about, which is the possible detrimental effect on health of disliking one’s anatomy. Firstly, Google consistently tries …
In general – there are many exceptions – humans don’t like their anatomy. Infographic. by Michael Broad More: human behaviour Is there any connection between the infographic and cats?! Well, I believe that there is. It’s about sterility. A lot of what we do to ‘improve’ our anatomy is to make it more sterile …
Angela Merkel’s 736-page memoir, Freiheit (Freedom), will be published next week. In this long book, she refers to a 2007 meeting with Vladimir Putin at Sochi, the Black Sea resort. At the time Putin owned a large, lumbering black labrador, Konni, which he allowed to join them during the meeting. He ‘allowed’ (encouraged) his …
Donald Trump is the new President. I am interested in animal welfare. What was Trump’s track record during his last presidency in bringing new initiatives to the table on animal welfare in America and across the globe? Answer below the image. Donald Trump’s presidency had a mix of actions that impacted animal welfare, both …
In India, a man was fatally trampled by a wild elephant as he tried to take a selfie in Maharashtra’s western region. India reportedly has recorded the highest number of selfie deaths followed by the US and Russia. A man in southern India was mauled to death earlier in February by an Asiatic lion after he …
Here is an infographic prepared by me which explains the origins of human kissing as per a theory proposed by Adriano Lameira (and team), an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Warwick in the UK. What all kisses have in common Lameiro concluded was a “protruding of the lips and slight suction”. He then …
The research seems to show that cats can assign a meaning to a word in minutes. Moreover, they did this without special training or the prospect of being rewarded, which mirrors how infant humans learn languages. – The Times newspaper Oct 24, 2024. This Japanese study confirms what observant cat caregivers know namely that …
The news in my newspaper today is that a real-life Indiana Jones has discovered a series of graves beneath the ‘Treasury’ in a hidden crypt at that wonderfully famous temple in Petra, Jordan. He is thrilled to bits that he has discovered 12 bodies which appear to have lain undisturbed for 2000 years. There …
