Saturday, 22. December 2007
Topic: Universe - on December 22, 2007 at 8:00:00 PM CET
At least NORAD is tracking Santa Claus
In light of this week’s government-level UFO banter in Tokyo, it’s kinda fitting that the 100th Monkey Effect was conceived in Japan.
You remember that one, right? Scientists studying simian behavior on Koshima Island in the 1950s supposedly noticed how an 18-month old female monkey started rinsing off sweet potatoes in a stream before eating them.
She teaches a few adults to emulate her; more join in. Next thing you know, the numbers indulging this new activity reach a critical mass of, say, 100, and — bingo — the entire population is washing its sweet potatoes.
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