What Do Sharks Eat?
The trend here, as I’m sure you’ve noticed, is that there are certain kinds of behaviours that we – or, at least, animals generally – are reliably motivated to perform but that have never been reinforced. A certain class of these behaviours seems to be tied to exploration, and this class of behaviour is often far more resistant to extinction than... See more
Intrinsic Motivation: a deep dive
Photo by Andy Casagrande @abc4explore // If you have ever been lucky enough to watch a great white shark in full predatory mode while hunting seals, ironically, it might help you to see past the negative “JAWS” stereotype that has plagued these polite predators for decades. I know this might sound illogical to most people, and many of my good... See more
instagram.comAt three hundred feet, we are profoundly changed. The pressure at these depths is nine times that of the surface. The organs collapse. The heart beats at a quarter of its normal rate, slower than the rate of a person in a coma. Senses disappear. The brain enters a dream state. At six hundred feet down, the ocean’s pressure—some eighteen times that
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