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A scientist in England has made an enlightening discovery about Atlantic puffins — under a UV light, their bills glow like a freshly cracked glow stick.

“It was sort of discovered by accident,” said Jamie Dunning, the ornithologist who first saw the beaks light up.

Grammar resources yay!

A friend told me about ingenjör’s folder on google drive. 

IT. IS. EXTRA-FUCKING-ORDINARY.

It contains grammar from every language you could possibly think of!

Deformed Bullets Removed from Spanish-American War Cases: All bullets were removed from surgical cases.

Nectocaris - a Cambrian organism of questionable affinity. It has been proposed that Nectocaris is a stem group cephalopod, however, it doesn’t really match other contemporary cephalopods. There is a huge argument about it. It makes for good reading. The gist of the argument is: 

One side [X, X] argue that it is a cephalopod because it has a strong similarity to extant cephalopods, particularly regarding the eyes. The funnel is used for jet propulsion, just like in contemporary cephalopods, and the mantle is preserved (top image: the darker outline on the inside of the fossil). 

The opposing side [X, X] argues that Nectocaris has no gut if the dark outline inside the fossil is the mantle, the funnel was more likely used to feed, and since cephalopods were believed to have evolved from benthic shelled organisms, it is suspicious that it doesn’t have a shell. Not even an internalised shell. 

Given that you have now just seen a brief overview of cephalopod evolution, how do you think Nectocaris fits in?  

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“But if you pay close attention, you will see that the most masculine man has a feminine soul, and the most feminine woman has a masculine soul.”