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Crows are also renowned for their striking intelligence - studies have shown that they possess problem-solving skills comparable to that of a seven-year-old child, demonstrating abilities to craft tools and remember human faces. Despite their small size, crow brains are densely packed with neurons which allows for advanced cognitive capabilities, such as using tools to obtain food or solving puzzles. These findings underscore the importance of brain structure over size, shifting the focus from mere scale to more intricate neural connectivity. They are also social animals, living in complex family units. Their social interactions require sophisticated communication skills, which involve learning and memory. Young crows learn by observing adult behaviour, indicating a form of cultural transmission that was once thought exclusive to primates, whilst memory plays a crucial role in their survival, since crows often hide food for future use. Remarkably, they can recall where they have stored food even weeks later.
The collective noun for crows ('murder') probably comes from medieval peasants’ fears that the sinister-looking corvids had been sent by the Devil. They were often associated with death, as they would often scavenge on battlefields, hospitals, cemeteries, or the gallows waiting for a chance to pick over dead bodies. The word 'parliament' for a group of owls, by contrast, seems to be have arisen from their association with wisdom and careful deliberation (I know, things were different in medieval times). However, ornithologists now usually refer to a group of birds, any birds, as a flock.
I'd get out more, but there's too much going on in my garden.
All those fkg pre-cinema ads, which are getting longer and longer as Brands aim to take advantage of our undivided attention. Trailers I get, but all these ads now seem to go on forever - I timed one pre-film set clocking in at a whopping 28 minutes. I note with interest that there's no legal limit on the amount of adverts a cinema can show on screens in the UK, and, leaving aside the mental torture of the sheer banality of most of the ads, it's possible also that these might be discouraging people from going to the cinema in the evening as people won't know when the film will end.
But I think we can a bit further, and recognise that, regardless of our personal taste, some music has, shall we say, more significance, is a better display of musicianship even, than others? Is Mozart crap because I prefer rock and roll? Much of the popular music of the 70s and beyond was clearly inspired by the Beatles; it's seems churlish to deny they were pioneers. Is 'A Day in the Life' a more significant song than, say, 'Shang-a-lang'? I'd say yes. And I'd say the Bay City Rollers was crap, and the Beatles weren't. So, my thesis is that it's not all just down to taste.
Me too. It's definitely not a Beatles' track, but would have stood up well on any Beatles album. Many of Paul's Wings era songs were much better sung live when given sufficient 'beef' by Jimmy McCullough & Denny Laine on guitar and Joe English on drums. I saw them in 1976 and it was a truly great show.
It certainly grows on you, but it's very uneven, and has one too many plodding dirges for my taste. But it's the lyrics that do it for me - all that hare Krishna and simplistic eastern spiritualism - obviously very 'him' but ruins it for me, I'm afraid.
Come, come. This is the album that contains some of their best work inc Back in The USSR, Dear Prudence, Blackbird, Helter Skelter, While my Guitar gently weeps, Julia, Mother Nature 's Son and Revolution. It's endlessly inventive, and has such a variety of styles unrivalled by any other band I can think of.
Impossible to choose one, so I'll try a top five And I Love Her - perfection Eleanor Rigby - redefined the possibility of what popular music could do A Day in the Life - astonishing work which never dates Here, There and Everywhere - another masterful ballad from Paul Paperback Writer - Great lyric and guitar lick to die for
Of the solo stuff, I love Lennon's soulful 'Isolation', and McCartney's brassy 'Letting Go'. Never warmed to George or Ringo's stuff much tho, although 'Isn't it a pity' wouldn't have been out of place on a Beatle album.
Took an elderly neighbour who'd had a bad fall on Monday night to Chelsea and Westminster hospital. After a few hours in A&E, he was admitted to the AAU unit on the 4th floor with a fractured spine and various other issues.
A spotless ward, excellent staff, and a quite excellent view of .... Stamford Bridge.
I imagined my last moments here. Can I request to to be taken to Hammersmith when the time comes?
All was not lost, however. The guy in the next bed took one look at my Qpr raincoat, Qpr bag and Qpr shirt and starts scoffing. 'Well, sorry,' he says sneeringly, ' I'll be watching my team (Man City apparently - I didn't ask) against Real Madrid tonight'.
Scoff ye not, I'm thinking, this morning. Bad karma.
Grand announcements like these always smell to me like someone desperate to impress - in this case the Chancellor, who must know that the chances of this going through are very slim given the local opposition, especially from those who will lose their homes, and sheer costs (SO FAR estimated at an eye-watering £14 billion - by contrast, Gatwick expansion has been estimated at £2.2 billion).
Another interesting thing about Venus is that it's the only planet in the solar system to spin clockwise, so the sun rises in the west. Why this is is something of a mystery. Most think that it used to spin 'normally' but something caused it to flip on its axis and spin the other way (I've had nights like these), whilst another theory is that it simply ran out of puff as it were and stopped rotating, and then started rotating 'backwards'.
Wonderful creatures - also known as the peewit in imitation of their display calls, their common name describes their wavering flight. Their black-and-white colouring and round-winged shape in flight make them distinctive, but its the splendid crest that make them particularly stand out. Unfortunately they've suffered significant declines recently (largely due to intensive farming methods, loss of wetlands etc) and is now a Red List species.
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