Cougar sightings rise as Wisconson wildlife monitors
From the Black Hills to backyards, Wisconsin residents report multiple cougar sightings. State biologists, citing photos tracks and evidence, confirm two confirmed cougars in designated areas while warning that many reports are misidentifications or other animals.
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Kansas
Medicine Lodge
Florida
Texas
Wisconsin
Chicago
Milton
Rock County
Spooner
Barron County
Ken Jonas
State Department of Natural Resources
Hayward
Eric Anderson
University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point
Illinois
Robots approach human intelligence in coming era
Washington reports experts warn progress in artificial intelligence could lead to machines rivaling humans. At a Boston Robobusiness event, firms demo robot firefighters and butlers while researchers debate timing and limits of machine reasoning. Authorities such as Rattner and Kurzweil offer differing timelines from near to centuries, with some predicting a pass of the Turing test by the late 2020s.
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Mars
Boston
Intel
Santa Clara
Calif
Herb
Justin Rattner
Rattner
Rodney Brooks
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge
Mass
Paul Saffo
Stanford University
Stanford
Saffo
Ray Kurzweil
Wellesley Hills
Kurzweil
Alan Turing
Steven Pinker
Harvard
Gordon Moore
Mitch Kapor
San Francisco
Kapor
Beartrek documentary follows ecologist on global bear quest
Bellingham ecologist Chris Morgan rides a BMW motorcycle on a seven location world trek in search of endangered bears to film a documentary. The project aims to raise money for conservation by showing why wild bears matter and how their habitats protect water air and forests.
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Bellingham
Wash
Chris Morgan
Katmai
Alaska
al Gore
Morgan
Canada
Peru
India
Borneo
Gobi Desert
Mongolia
Otter like fossil sheds light on early seal evolution
A 23 million year old Puijila darwini fossil from Devon Island shows an otter like creature with webbed feet and limb features marking an early step toward flippers. Natalia Rybczynski notes it is not a direct ancestor of pinnipeds but reveals an ancient look at early sea mammal evolution in the Canadian Arctic.
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Canadian Museum OF Nature
Devon Island
Canadian Arctic
New York
Natalia Rybczynski
Far North
Charles Darwin
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