Catching Corrupted Photos; and Big Bird Brains
Science Talk
Scientific American
4.2 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2007
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:34.4 | Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American, for the seven days starting April 11th. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Steve Murski. |
| 0:41.4 | This week on the podcast, The Forensics of Photos and Bird Brains. |
| 0:45.7 | We'll talk with animal behavior expert, Bern'd Heinrich, about Raven Intelligence, |
| 0:51.3 | and a couple of researchers from Adobe Systems will discuss forensic photography, |
| 0:55.8 | methods in development to root out image manipulation. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some |
| 1:00.2 | recent science in the news. First up, Berndt Heinrich, he's a professor of biology at the University |
| 1:05.8 | of Vermont. He's written seven articles for Scientific American. The latest, co-authored by Thomas Bukniar, is in the April |
| 1:12.8 | issue and is called Just How Smart Are Ravens. I called Heinrich at his office in Burlington, Vermont. |
| 1:21.6 | Hi, Dr. Heinrich. How are you today? Fine. Thank you, Steve. Tell me, first of all, all ravens are |
| 1:27.3 | crows, but not all crows are ravens. |
| 1:29.6 | Is that right? |
| 1:30.5 | Yeah, I mean, ravens are a select group of crows, generally larger birds. |
| 1:36.4 | And, you know, the raven that we're talking about here is Corvus Korax, which is the V-raven that most people think of. |
| 1:46.3 | It's all over the northern hemisphere, Asia, Europe, North America, and down to South America. |
| 1:53.1 | So it's huge distribution. |
| 1:55.6 | But, for example, in the New York metropolitan area, if I see a large black bird on a telephone pole is |
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