Intelligence
Jun 23 2009, Jeremy Taylor

Filed under: Happy Hour Hero, Nature Our happy hour fact to amaze the drunks in the pub. Unlike dogs, cats don’t understand cause-and-effect connections between objects. Researchers ran 15 felines through a series of tests involving strings with treats a

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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., second from left, talks with Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 10, 2009, before the start of hte committee’s hearing on worldwide threats.