New Dork Post: January 2012

Monday, January 30, 2012

High Five: Common Mistakes

1. Looking the other way

2. Giving the benefit of the doubt

3. Gut decisions

4. Going for it

5. Playing it by ear

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

1. cruise crisis

2. insurance costs

3. Gabby Giffords

4. Romney taxes

5."taco" comment

6. Tim Thomas

7. blank stare

8. State of the Union

9. Joe Paterno

10. Demi whip its

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Game of the Month: Table Tennis

Monday, January 23, 2012

As a group, crows show remarkable examples of intelligence. Crows and ravens often score very highly on intelligence tests. Certain species top the avian IQ scale. Wild hooded crows in Israel have learned to use bread crumbs for bait-fishing. Crows will engage in a kind of mid-air jousting, or air-"chicken" to establish pecking order. Crows have been found to engage in feats such as sports, tool use, the ability to hide and store food across seasons, episodic-like memory,and the ability to use individual experience in predicting the behavior of environmental conspecifics.

One species, the New Caledonian Crow, has also been intensively studied recently because of its ability to manufacture and use its own tools in the day-to-day search for food. These tools include 'knives' cut from stiff leaves and stiff stalks of grass.Another skill involves dropping tough nuts into a trafficked street and waiting for a car to crush them open. On October 5, 2007, researchers from the University of Oxford, England presented data acquired by mounting tiny video cameras on the tails of New Caledonian Crows. It turned out that they use a larger variety of tools than previously known, plucking, smoothing, and bending twigs and grass stems to procure a variety of foodstuffs^. Crows in Queensland, Australia have learned how to eat the toxic cane toad by flipping the cane toad on its back and violently stabbing the throat where the skin is thinner, allowing the crow to access the non-toxic innards; their long beaks ensure that all of the innards can be removed.

Recent research suggests that crows have the ability to recognize one individual human from another by facial features.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

NFL Fun Facts!

1. Early NFL uniforms included capes.

2. The first NFL game was played on an Indian burial ground.

3. Touchdowns were originally called Hot Shots.

4. Early footballs were made of otter skin.

5. The first touchdown dance was a polka.

Let's go Pats!

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Ideas for America: Put a Cap on Capitalism

Since 2003 Major League baseball has instituted a luxury tax to discourage high payroll and create a better competitive balance. How can we create this balance in America without it being construed as Socialism? I purpose a cap on capitalism. A simple formula to encourage a fair payroll balance.

The formula goes like this: the highest payed employee cannot make more than a 1000 times more than the lowest payed employee. An employee making more than 1000 times the lowest paid employee will be taxed 75% on every dollar that exceeds the limit. An example of this would be a company with the lowest paid employee making 30,000 a year would have a CEO capped at 30 million dollars a year. (Bonuses are included in this formula) This formula is fair and will encourage CEO's who want to make more to pay more. All tax proceeds from this "Cap Tax" could go towards education and social services. The funds would assist lower paid americans with getting medical insurance and pursuing higher education.