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Dogs, Like Babies, Can Read Us
Tim'nCindy Jenkins Carter, Dale Willets Flowers liked this postTweet A new study shows that dogs can read our facial expressions and body language to guess what we’re thinking — on a level previously only confirmed in 6-month-old babies. Dogs were … Continue reading
The Where, Why, and How of Dogs
Sharon Davis liked this postTweetWhen, and how, did wolves evolve into dogs? The currently prevailing theory on the first question is that dogs originated in East Asia and then spread throughout the rest of the world. However, some new fossil … Continue reading
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Tagged dog-blog, Dogs, evolution, fossils, Science, where-to-get-dog-stuff, wolves
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Short Dogs, Deep Snow
TweetWith slo-mo video. And music:
More Schools Using Animals to De-Stress Students
Katherine DeYampert liked this postTweet The Washington Post’s story focuses on George Mason University School of Law, but notes that law schools generally are using therapy dogs and puppies to help students cope with the stress of final exams. (Video … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-stress-dogs-for-final-exams, college, college-puppy-destress, dog-anti-stress-student, Dogs, final exams, finals, how-to-destress-student, law school, law-school-dogs-finals, pressure, Puppies, rabbits, schools-destress-students, stress, students
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What a Sweet Dog: Pointillist Pooch is Made Entirely of Sprinkles
Tony Popson, Cynthia Powell liked this postTweet University student Joel Brochu came up with quite a project when he decided to recreate a photo of a beagle being bathed … using nothing but candy sprinkles. Each of the six different … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, bathtub, Beagle, beagle-being-bathed, beagle-candy-sprinkles, beagle-photo-made-of-candy, brochu-candy-dog, candy sprinkles, dog-pointillism, dog-portrait-made-from-221184-candy-sprinkles-by-joel-brochu, Dogs, Joel Brochu, pointallism-with-candy, pointilism-dog-candy, Pointillism, pointillism-art-with-sprinkles, pointillism-sprinkles, pointillism-with-candy-sprinkles, puppy-art-made-of-candy, youtube-beagle-made-with-candy
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Is Your Dog Smarter Than a 2-Year-Old?
Cookie Nee, Lisa Montes liked this postTweet Alexandra Horowitz, author of Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell and Know, examines the similarities — and divergences — between dogs and toddlers, concluding, “Just as a child is more than … Continue reading
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Tagged dog, Dogs, Dogs and science, intelligence, psychology, toddlers, which-is-smarter-lab-or-golden-retriever
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Dogs and Leaves — It Must Be Fall
Sharon Davis, Dale Willets Flowers liked this postTweet BuzzFeed brings us pictorial proof … that dogs … and leaves … were pretty much made for each other. Your moment of dog-leaf Zen: Lots more photos at the link. Enjoy.
