No, but I've seen the film a couple of times with my kids.
Spiders are pretty cool.
Nature is wild
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Spiders are pretty cool.
Imagine Dave the spider chilling out in the Cape Cod sunshine then accidentally ballooning into the north Atlantic slipstream and ending up in Liverpool. Poor bastard.
Yeah, the spider had babies and most of them balloon off out of the barn. It's probably the thing I remember most from the book.
Heh. I used to have a great memory.
I would remember that too. With a trauma
Imagine being told you look like shit every day...
Newly discovered Australian beetle almost mistaken for bird poo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-68622828
Newly discovered Australian beetle almost mistaken for bird poo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-68622828
In what world does poop have spikes?Imagine being told you look like shit every day...
Newly discovered Australian beetle almost mistaken for bird poo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-68622828
Imagine shitting out a long silk attached to your bottom then a tornado comes to pick you up and you end up at the peak of Himalaya after 25 days of being airborne. What's stopping humans from achieving that type of technology? instead we're focusing all of our efforts on AI....
Bit windy in Nebraska today.
Jesus.
feck me. Are tornado season exclusive of US? or there are other countries that experience them so often?
Canada is in second place, every continent gets tornadoes, & I believe the deadliest was in Bangadesh.
I am not saying that there are no tornados anywhere else, but where is more like. I just search it
The United States averages over 1,200 tornadoes every year. That's more than any other country. In fact, it's more than Canada, Australia and all European countries combined. Canada actually ranks second on the list for most tornadoes, with an average of 100 per year.
Yeah the size of the North American landmass and America's position in it mean that it sits in a Goldilocks zone for tornado formation. Cooler air from up north meets warm, wet air from the gulf of Mexico and this provides the conditions for tornadoes to form.
That first big Baboon that went to tackle the Leopard is some badass
Looks a bad one...
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From Nature Briefing:
References:
The New York Times | 5 min read
Current Biology paper
There are two videos on the NYT page that show some of this (although it's hard to really understand what you're seeing).
References:
The New York Times | 5 min read
Current Biology paper
There are two videos on the NYT page that show some of this (although it's hard to really understand what you're seeing).
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References:
The New York Times | 5 min read
Current Biology paper
There are two videos on the NYT page that show some of this (although it's hard to really understand what you're seeing).
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Extraordinary.
This is about springtails, small hexapods (related to insects but not insects) that live pretty much anywhere there is decomposing organic matter. Their amazing feature is that they have some sort of appendix that can bounce them up into the air, on average some 30mm. Yes, just 3cm, but that's 30 times their size, so pretty amazing. What's more, during those flights of about 0.1s, they can do some 20 backflips. That's 120 backflips per second or, in a more common unit, 7200rpm. The quickest springtail measured even clocked 22,000rpm! That's pretty insane. Scientists actually needed are super precise camera just to find out what happens, since it's just a blur to the human eye or an regular camera. Pretty wild!
Springtails also have an appendix that can help them land: if they arrive the right way, it provides pretty much instant grip and they're stuck in place. But funnily, it often doesn't grip on and instead, the springtails just bounce around a bit. Oh well, can't have it all!
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Fly brain breakthrough 'huge leap' to unlock human mind
As beautiful as it is complex, the fly's brain has more than 130,000 wires with 50 million intricate connections
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0lw0nxw71po
They're probably more intelligent than humans as well.