Science News

The Viscount noticed some interesting science news recently.  He found this article fascinating in its demonstration on the similarity of emotions and nerve functions between humans and other primates.  It turns out that apes laugh.  While one would imagine that this would be the case, it seems that a systematic study was recently completed to confirm this inference.  The Viscount has a strong interest in the emotional life of animals and is happy to learn that apes enjoy being tickled as much as he does.

In other news, there is more evidence for the link between land cover change and climate change.  This time the evidence comes from India where there is evidence that the development of widespread agriculture hundreds of years ago changed the monsoonal pattern.  The Viscount consistently rolls his eyes at climate change naysayers and refuses to be socially linked with such individuals.  There is ample evidence that the earth is constantly undergoing climate change from anthropogenic and natural causes.  There is no doubt that the changes on our planet in the last several decades accelerated this change.