Whether you’re working on a simple fix or a big project, the smaller version of a tool is almost always the better one. Credit... Supported by By Tim Heffernan Visuals by Clark Hodgin It’s been a year ...

Justice for Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson: A team of scientists has observed, for the first time, a cow using a tool in a flexible manner. The ingenuity of “Veronika,” as the animal is called, shows ...

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This post is in response to Unexpected Creative Tool Use By a Wild Wolf to Catch Crabs By Marc Bekoff Ph.D. Veronika using the brush to scratch her back. Source: A. J. Osuna-Mascaró/with permission.

A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows, researchers say. By Emily Anthes For a cow, Veronika has had what might ...

In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, cow tools are real. Larson’s 1982 comic for his series The Far Side showed ...

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Software development used to be simpler, with fewer choices about which platforms and languages to learn. You were either a Java, .NET, or LAMP developer. You focused on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

With so many schools implementing versions of cellphone bans, that may seem to many teachers like yesterday’s challenge. Artificial intelligence, on the other hand, is decidedly at hand. Today’s post ...

My parents first came to the United States in the 1970s to flee the cruelty and violence of Haiti’s dictator, François Duvalier, or “Papa Doc” as he was called. With their temporary visas expired, ...

Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...