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Math-phobics of the world take heart - if a monkey can do it, anybody can. Researchers at Kyoto University have taught a female chimp named Ai to count and manipulate numbers. In an article published in a forthcoming edition of Nature, researchers report that Ai was usually able to memorize and repeat sequences when flashed with any five numbers between 1 and 9 in random order - putting her at least on par with the average preschooler. Adult humans, in contrast, usually have a difficult time remembering more than seven random numbers (hence the length of phone numbers). Animals have long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Bonzo Counting Sheep at Bedtime? | 1/5/2000 | See Source »

...sure you guys probably get this a lot, so I apologize for asking this, but how did you guys come up with your band name? I read on the Internet that it means "Dimwit Reproductive Monkey" in Welsh...

Author: By Annie K. Zaleski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Rare Welsh Bit | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

Alive with Pleasure Namwan, a Bangkok temple monkey, enjoys the flavor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Animals Go Bad | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...issue of whether the HIV virus made the jump to humans via a vaccine, a direct blood infection from a monkey bite or any of the other hypotheses is of little scientific utility, and this area of inquiry is unlikely to draw research resources away from the more pressing search for a vaccine and a cure. But just as we're not satisfied with perennially checking the "don't know" box in explaining an air crash, we're burdened, as a culture, to find an explanation for a phenomenon that has killed 16 million people - and has infected 33 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is AIDS a Man-Made Plague? | 11/30/1999 | See Source »

...state science curriculum, the sophisticates had quite a yuk. One editorial cartoon had an ape reclining in a tree telling his mate, "We are descended from the Kansas School Board." The decision has been widely derided as a sign of resurgent Middle American obscurantism, a throwback to the Scopes "monkey trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Message of Creationism | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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