I was in Geneva a few weeks ago looking at -- looking at them trying to turn the LHC on for with the ninth time. I think the last time it was screwed up, some pigeon dropped a baguette into one of the transformers, and they had to turn it off because they were worried about it exploding.And, of course, this is, of course, the time travellers from the future screwing things up. So we don't -- so we don't muck around too
So as we start to see the varied ways that the saxophone was used, we shouldn't be so much pitying the saxophone for being pigeonholed into this or that, but really kind of amazed at how many different venues the saxophone was used in, and is still used today. As the saxophone was a new instrument and not encumbered by traditions of centuries as the other wind instruments had, it was not rigid to how
And what do pigeons do? Pigeons are random, so they'll bee-bop around their cage.And one will kick left, a piece of bird seed will pop out.
Bird seed popped out. Pigeons start thinking if I kick to the left, bird seed comes out, right?And they start developing this story, and they get this superstition.
Overhead, of bleak sky was flanked by rooftops, iron fire escapes. Pigeons circled. Street peddlers shouted.Chickens squawked. There was this strange rickety calliope of the organ grinder.
And I practiced this Google Talk in my bedroom one too many times. Pigeons have been here since the beginning.
Because as a gay man, as a Black gay man in particular, with very specific talents, I found myself pigeonholed into a stereotype that I was uncomfortable with. And so I needed to find a different way of communicating creatively.
It's all about pigeons . The pigeons ? Uh huh. It's all about pigeons .
And you see this pigeon perched here and I lived in New York for a good time, from 2000 to 2004. And pigeons became my kind of surrogate pet. And so I would feed them and cultivate their droppings, if you will.
with what you did just before and do that. So if a pigeon happened to have been twirling around just before you gave it some seed, it will try whirling around much more to get seeds. The end result is a lot of pigeon superstitions.
And then the first day we'd say, well, we're going to send out an email to anyone at the company, as broad a group as possible, sometimes into a pigeon -hole thing.
No sooner said than done. He takes a poor pigeon . He's got seeds in the crop.
He's got seeds in the crop. And this poor pigeon is killed and is floating in a salt water tank for 30 days. And then Darwin is able to report, once he plants it, ah, the seeds, they germinated splendidly.
development and how we communicate with the world. Maybe I learned pigeon sign language or ASL or English order sign language. It all varies and that all affects our thinking and how we approach this script.
And there were three different groups of scientist trying to bring back the woolly mammoth. And the passenger pigeon , we shot every single last one of them out of the sky.
And there were three different groups of scientist trying to bring back the woolly mammoth. Or like the pigeon .
And there were three different groups of scientist trying to bring back the woolly mammoth. Because we have a pigeon problem.
This is a similar thing done with pigeons . How does a pigeon change direction as a function of the position of its neighbors? And we can get a really good idea of how these fish and how these pigeons interact with each other.
We send in there a bit of synthesized mammoth DNA. Where would a passenger pigeon , a bird that flocked in the billions and fed on forests, killing huge swaths of forest all at once,
And I think pigeon -holing is a mistake.
But we came back to New York and we were reminded of why we love it here. And you see this pigeon perched here and I lived in New York for a good time, from 2000 to 2004. And pigeons became my kind of surrogate pet.
banker and a pigeon and the answer is a pigeon can still make a deposit on a
Once you have a pigeonhole number, you go for additional layers of identification.
And they do pigeons -- that's all they do.
I had pigeons . It was big and bad and it was messy, but other people couldn't tell.
And they shot pigeons .
People raise the pigeons .
They sell the pigeons .
And the pigeons come to him.
And there were three different groups of scientist trying to bring back the woolly mammoth. There's lots of pigeons .
And then we're going to put you in a cage, and every five seconds a piece a bird seed's going to pop out. And what do pigeons do? Pigeons are random, so they'll bee-bop around their cage.
Library feeding pigeons . Or if you don't like either of those two explanations, he's a space alien who, indeed, came to Earth from Venus
OK. You heard it here-- pigeons . It's all about pigeons .
You heard it here-- pigeons . It's all about pigeons . The pigeons ? Uh huh.
The pigeons ? Uh huh. It's all about pigeons . Exactly.
He raised pigeons , and he loved his pigeons .
and carrier pigeons . Being this fascinating can be taxing, even for clinical narcissists.
make that decision and pigeonhole themselves into a, being a particular kind of star that kind of corrupts their brand, which actually as we know in these cultural industries is
And right into the 20th century, we had men like B.F.Skinner, who's actually too boring to show a photograph of. He was the arch-behaviorist. And he put pigeons in boxes and rats and taught them how to peck at things in a certain order. And he said basically the brain was just a box. You had stimulus in and responses out, and he actually tried to bring his daughter up in a skinner box until she
Megan: It's pigeons . Eve Ensler: I have no idea how it works.
So the officers just built 1024 wooden pigeon holes to organize these fingerprints.
under our breath at the pigeon that's walking in front of us on the street. Those birds, though, they are dinosaurs. They are real, bonafide, unequivocal, absolute 100% living dinosaurs.
find a way to get their carrier pigeon to the troops out in remote locations to
We fly on a giant pigeon .
So if a pigeon happened to have been twirling around just before you gave it some seed, it will try whirling around much more to get seeds. The end result is a lot of pigeon superstitions. And while we might laugh at that, well, look at gamblers.
I've also learned there that pigeon pants is a thing, and that you want the pigeon to be wearing the pants before they fly onto your shoulder
And there were three different groups of scientist trying to bring back the woolly mammoth. If we put a new pigeon there, what can happen?
And there were three different groups of scientist trying to bring back the woolly mammoth. And certainly with a passenger pigeon , that something that's happening.
And there were three different groups of scientist trying to bring back the woolly mammoth. The guy who's leading the passenger pigeon project is a guy called Ben Novak.
of thinking beyond just where the pigeon holes might be with people thinking about you.