Clever Corvids

[tealin]

This is awesome:

Rooks Corroborate Aesop

And now from the realm of human psychology, proof that we who procrastinate do it because we're special: Abstract thinkers tend to put things off more! Really, it's a wonder anything gets done at Disney at all ...

From The Economist, the concrete version of events

From Newsweek, an abstract take on the experiment

I wonder who turned in their copy first ...

Comments

[ledygrey.livejournal.com]

WAIT!! Once a first-class procrastinator, I'm becoming *shudder* punctual. Does this mean I'm losing my analytical capabilities??

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Don't think so. I think punctuality is something you can train yourself in, though perhaps abstract thinkers need more training than concrete ones. Eighteen years of rigourous conditioning against daunting odds by my concrete-thinking parents made me a punctual person (as long as the deadline matters, anyway) but if nothing else, the more rambly, hypothetical entries on this blog prove my abstract faculties are doing well ...