Smart Corvids And Long Covid

Who’s The Smartest Corvid?

Louis Lefebvre | Tyee | 5th June 2026

An American crow once disappeared into the near-vertical shaft of a decommissioned mine for over nine minutes and emerged with a bat. Another crow made a pointed tool out of a wooden splinter and used it as a probe to retrieve a spider in a hole. An Indian crow was observed killing a rat by drowning it, periodically pulling it out to see if it was dead and plunging it back in if not (2,200 words)

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The Long Illness Persists

Systems Thinking Collection | 7th June 2026

The scientific community remains baffled by Long Covid. Understanding it requires a systemic approach, which modern medicine has largely rejected in favour of specialisation. The human body is like an intricate mechanical watch and the pathogen is a grain of sand. “The disease is the whole entity — the watch steadily grinding its own gears down in an inflammatory attempt to chew through the sand” (4,700 words)