Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he’s come up with an elegant machine that may form a new bond between animal and human.
I remember reading about the work he did, but to see him speak is really great.
I think this is my favourite TED Talk so far. Although there was one about Space travel and new photographs of a planet (I think it was Jupiter) that I saw a few months ago, where the lady giving the talk was so passionate and emotional that it gave me goosebumps, but I can’t find it on the site.
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