Baby chicks can do arithmetic!

According to an article on MSNBC, "baby chickens aren't just cute - they are also whizzes at math, according to a new study. The study, published in the latest Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the Royal Society's flagship biological research journal, presents the first known evidence that any non-human animal can perform consecutive addition and subtraction calculations on the same set."

The article further states that "Taken as a whole, however, the study supports the theory 'that animals and humans share a non-verbal, and even pre-verbal in the case of humans, numerical system" that can perform precise arithmetic on small number sets — 'with a limit of three or four' -- and make estimates about larger sets, said Rugani, a researcher in the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences at the University of Trento in Italy."

Pretty neat stuff! Go chickens!

Better Living Through Chemistry? Not in this case.

On March 31, 2009 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee outrageously approved S.384 the Global Food Security Act of 2009!

This is an example of good intentions gone bad! It's very noble that the U.S. wants to help food security in other countries but not when companies such as Monsanto get their hand in it!!

Part of the bill MANDATES that the U.S. must fund GMO research and biotechnology in Africa and South Asia!!

Isn't this crazy??

Why don't they also mandate the use of organic/sustainable agriculture in these countries??

Please call/write your senator and let them know that you are not happy about this part of the bill and won't allow it to be passed in the full Senate!