B.F. Skinner is a psychologist best known for the Skinner Box, a kind of sensory-deprivation device which limits the creature inside it to only one form of stimulus at a time. Using one such box, he ...
Today I found out about Project Pigeon andProject X-Ray, WWII plans to use pigeons to guide missiles and (literal) bat bombers. The man behind Project Pigeon was famed American behaviorist and Harvard ...
This spring, I've had birds on my mind. I've posted a series of posts on birds: the parenting of Caledonian crows and Backyard Chickens I and 2. . I've spent what seems like weeks hanging out in my ...
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