Tag: category
Does Hurricane Melissa Show It’s Time for a Category 6 Designation?
Is It Time to Classify Hurricanes as Category 6? Hurricane Melissa’s powerful winds and drenching rains devastated Jamaica. But is its wrath a sign that we need a new designation for monster storms? By Meghan Bartels edited by Andrea Thompson Hurricane Melissa became one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean on…
Weather tracker: Jamaica braces for its most powerful hurricane as Melissa reaches category 5
Record-breaking hurricane expected to make landfall on Tuesday with 160mph winds, while New Zealand reels from storm damage Hurricane Melissa – follow latest updates live The Caribbean is bracing for Hurricane Melissa, one of the most powerful to ever strike the region. Melissa began as a cluster of thunderstorms off the coast of west Africa,…
Dogs with Large Vocabularies Can Understand Category Words, Not Just Names
Some Dogs Can Learn Categories like Human Toddlers Do These dogs can extend words to new objects based on function the way children do in early language learning By Anirban Mukhopadhyay edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Researchers found that some dogs can learn terms for functional categories, such as ‘pull’ and ‘throw’ toys. Join Our…