“A Zoocentric Capgras Syndrome” [article in German], U. Ehrt, Psychiatrische Praxis, vol. 26, no. 1, January 1999, pp. 43–4. The authors, who are at Klinik und Poliklinik fur Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Halle/Saale, Germany, report that: “We present a case of a 23-year-old women who had the delusional belief that her cat had been replaced by […]
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Prairie dog specimen vacuum collection
The prairie dog was unknown to scientists until 1805. Collecting the first specimen was an adventure, as National Geographic hints: Lewis and Clark encountered their first prairie dog “town” near present-day Fort Randall Dam. A live prairie dog was among the specimens sent to President Jefferson from Fort Mandan in 1805 Guy Balfour‘s prairie dog […]
Archaeology: Old tricks for new dogs?
In Fornvännen 2007:3, husband & wife historians of archaeology Drs Åsa Gillberg and Ola W. Jensen note that there are currently ongoing attempts to train dogs to sniff out archaeology, much like they have proved capable of finding illegal drugs, recently buried murder victims, even cancerous tumours. Results so far are inconclusive. The point of […]
The fallacy of examples: an example
Yes, I am a goat-giver, and proud of it. But— I’ve noticed in business writing in particular the frequency of what we can call the Fallacy of Examples (a type of Fallacy of Hasty Generalization). You read some story about a successful CEO as if we should learn from his (yes, usually it’s a him) […]