Apathetic Dolphin
I read this gem from the marvelous tumblr that is Out of Context Science:
“The big stumbling block is motivation. Dolphins don’t seem to care.”
This observation is from a piece about communicating with our dolphin buddies by Ed Yong, Will We Ever Talk with Dolphins? Researchers equipped with dolphin-friendly underwater keyboards found that dolphins were less than enthusiastic about using them to engage in conversation.
But perhaps it’s not really apathy; maybe it’s just that dolphins so enjoy their underwater goings-on that pausing to converse with the likes of us may not seem like a good time investment. My goodness, they’re even smarter than we thought: they’ve already learned how to entirely avoid awkward smalltalk. That took me years to master.
