"hard-boiled detective"…kind of a goofy term. even when hard-boiled, an egg still isn't really hard. and typically (?) when you boil something you're if anything trying to make it softer
Lucre Snooker
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#WormWednesday New extra-big earthworm from Madagascar @zookeys.pensoft.net Genus is endemic Kynotus insularis Csuzdi et al doi.org/10.3897/zook...
it's a little funny how non-hedonistic old people tend to be
wow, gwern retiring from full-time writing to do a startup?!?
nice, i uncovered my old notes on The Odyssey! i wonder what insights lie within
new to me: "Mark William Hofmann … is especially noted for his creation of fake documents related to the history of the Latter Day Saint movement. When his schemes began to unravel, he constructed bombs to murder three people in Salt Lake City" (killed two, then injured himself and got caught)
"The Cambrian fecal revolution"
The Cambrian fecal revolution: Fueling the Cambrian Radiation
Coprolites—fossil material extruded from an animal’s digestive system—represent a rare insight into trophic interactions in deep time. However, while the first animals appeared about 600 million years...
cell.com
"Aeolian Deposits" would be a good name for a blog or literary magazine that no one reads
watch out, Bataspis!!!! (art by Dinghua Yang)
Philip Donoghue@phil-donoghue.bsky.social · yesterdayOur latest: Xinyuan Meng @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social describes Bataspis crux, expanding galeaspid (jawless fish) disparity with a bat-like head adapted for dynamic lift. Xinyuan's study was aided by @ferronhg.bsky.social Davide Pisani, Zhikun Gai and myself. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
sitting in my beloved coffee shop for the first time in a while and they're talking about how no one should use AI and making fun of sam altman, while i try to get claude to make me a shitty powershell script
"Do birds enjoy flying? An analysis of affect after flight in galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)" "One may have wondered whether birds that are flying without any clear purpose may in fact be enjoying themselves. … We found that all individuals almost always choose to fly when given the opportunity,"
thebes@vgel.me · 2mo ago
I love how new audiences continue to discover & appreciate this diagram from my 2014 book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (@pegasus-books.bsky.social). Before including it in the book, I imagined, calculated, & drew it, then asked a physicist to peer-review it. Physics, math, & paleontology made fun! 🧪🦕🤮
Luke Knox@lukeknox.me · 5d agothis is my new favorite diagram
it's crazy to me that "Price Tracking" is one of the top things that the iOS Chrome app tries to get you to use. what goes on there, do people really use whatever this is?
they should make arms that you can just hang by your sides comfortably
just uncovered a voice memo from 2012 that said: "something should be called Windows and Orphans"
it's fun when organizations just give up on apostrophe use. IIRC the official term in NJ is "driver license", i assume to avoid having to litigate driver's license/drivers' license
i hadn't realized that "soupçon" was basically derived from "suspicion". a suspicion of soup sounds like one of those irksome-through-repetition cutesy collective nouns
i don't think i knew that sea squirts & co. (the sister group of vertebrates) are "the only animal group that produces cellulose", probably via horizontal gene transfer? academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
The kissing of sea slugs. Reminds me of Gustav Klimt paintings. Elysia viridis, commonly known as the solar-powered sea slug or sap-sucking slug, is uniquely distinguished by its rare ability to steal plant-like cellular machinery from the algae it eats and use it to perform photosynthesis.
"We find that cross-site consistency is low (median r ≤ 0.16); markedly reduced compared to Alzheimer’s disease (r = 0.54); unexplained by demographic, clinical or scanner differences; and robust to analytic choices."
Alex Fornito@alexfornito.bsky.social · 6d agoOur latest out now in @natneuro.nature.com led by @trangcao.bsky.social looking at the reproducibility of MRI morphometry phenotypes in psychiatric disorders. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thread: x.com/TrangCao2016...
Middle English reboot of the MCU where Ant-Man is now Pissemire-Man
Definition of PISMIRE
ant… See the full definition
merriam-webster.com
@norvid-studies.bsky.social "Cranial evidence for human-like helpless infancy in Homo erectus and Homo floresiensis" royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Cranial evidence for human-like helpless infancy in Homo erectus and Homo floresiensis
Abstract. Unlike other catarrhine primates, modern humans deliver a helpless newborn who requires prolonged extensive care. Such helpless infancy is associ
royalsocietypublishing.org
future historians will never be able to pinpoint when i set my daughter up with her own youtube account and started watching my own things
