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By jgoldman on June 16, 2010. Dogs are particularly good at tasks that involve communicating or cooperating with humans, which has led some researchers to speculate that they are really good at solving social tasks, more generally. For example, dogs can figure out where a human's attention is, are really good at picking up on eye-gaze and finger pointing cues, distinguish among different individual humans (by contrast, humans are really bad at distinguishing among different individual monkeys, for example), and at least in one outstanding case, are capable of "fast mapping." ...

Besides being comforting, hugging can curb loneliness and anxiety, and release oxytocin and dopamine, the hormones associated with promoting feelings of happiness.

By clock on June 7, 2010. To get disclaimers out of the way, first, Vanessa Woods (on Twitter) is a friend. I first met her online, reading her blog Bonobo Handshake where she documented her day-to-day life and work with bonobos in the Congo. We met in person shortly after her arrival to North Carolina, at a blogger meetup in Durham, after which she came to three editions of ScienceOnline conference. I interviewed Vanessa after the 2008 event and blogged (scroll down to the second half of the post) about her 2009 session 'Blogging adventure: how to post from strange locatio...

>> reporter: featured in a documentary, chaser knows the name of 1,000 toys. and on youtube, viral videos. this dog playing pool or another pulling its own blanket. but how smart is your dog? meet bell, my 10-year-old french spaniel. like most dog owners, i'll tell you, she's special. i think bell is really smart. the question, is she a rocket scientist? now there is a way to figure out the brain behind the bark. there's the food. okay, it's over there. you didn't follow my point. after 17 years of testing, professor brian hare calls some dogs einsteins. others, charmers. >> the question is, w...

there are several departments responding to the fire. still attempting to put it out. all of our employees and anybody who was visiting the plant at the time the fire began has been evacuated and accounted for. so that was obviously our first concern. everybody is out and safe. >> i want to ask about this wedgeworth elementary school which is in that area. so if everyone is safe, does that mean that the school has been closed or where are the students at this point? >> that i don't know. they're not in visual range. we are next to a college that has been evacuated. as far as the elem...