Noam Hassenfeld

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Unexplainable · Bird people and deep space shrapnel · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

And there's this one experiment that I love where this scientist wore a particular kind of mask all the time.

And when he did, he trapped and released crows.

And then the crows that had been released, they alerted other crows.

And then some crows that had never been trapped learned to be afraid of the guy in the mask.

Ah!

And then apparently future generations of crows learn to be afraid of this mask.

So there's definitely some type of intergenerational transmission.

Anton says this is not full, complex culture, right?

This is not economics.

This is not The Sopranos.

This is not baseball.

But I was thinking about this when I was reading the piece.

I think there is a certain anthropocentrism.

Anthropocentrism?

Is that even a...

I'll go with yes.

There's a sense in which it has sort of an anthropocentric view of like, why didn't they get the culture?

But you want to ask sometimes like, well, is culture the end all be all?

So your question is valid, which is like, well, maybe this is crow culture.

And do we need to say that one is lesser than the other?

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