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"Klein did get a professor at Binghamton to help him try [the machine] out twice in Ithaca, with assistance from a Binghamton graduate student, and it was not a
by stevejohnson 12y ago
"Klein did get a professor at Binghamton to help him try [the machine] out twice in Ithaca, with assistance from a Binghamton graduate student, and it was not a success. Corvid experts who have since been interviewed have said that Klein’s machine is unlikely to work as intended."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/magazine/12letters-t-CORRECTIONS-1.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/magazine/12letters-t-CORRE...
- fallinghawks 12y agoIf I'm not mistaken, the grad student is one of my friends on FB, and I've quoted her in a separate reply.
- mxfh 12y agoHow is his claim holding up, or is he promising too much? Since it's the last news of the thing for captive crows were from 2012 and there is also [thecrowbox] and a correction of the correction [2]. There is still no working version for wild crows[3]. I just still don't know what to make of this since I can hardly see bad intentions other than being a bit overly enthusiastic about the whole thing while producing somewhat underwhelming results in practice. If it would have been some sort of hoax or stunt he probably would have said something by now, like it was an art project or some media hack or anything else along those lines. [1] http://www.thecrowbox.com/ http://www.thecrowbox.com/ [2] http://www.josh.is/correction/ http://www.josh.is/correction/ [3] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/CrowBoxKit/AyG7nmlbkeI https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/CrowBoxKit/AyG7nmlbk... Bonus: Here is another guys, Steve Joy, vending machine (mentioned in the thecrowbox user group) which seem to actually work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qSsVBPh9Lo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qSsVBPh9Lo