May 26
Wake up babe, new octopus just dropped
He's such a little guy!
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Wake up babe, new octopus just dropped
He's such a little guy!
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My son gave me a card that said, "You are the best mom ever" so I asked him if he collected empirical evidence to back up that claim. He admitted to doing no research at all; therefore it's purely anecdotal and cannot be trusted. I have hung this sentimental atrocity on my office wall.
the world’s first photograph of lightning, taken by william n. jennings on september 2nd, 1882 in philadelphia via historycoolkids
Here's something obvious that it took me until adulthood to realize. If you can see the moon (and it's not a completely full moon), you can tell which direction the sun is. Because the sun is shining on the moon -- that's why it glows -- and the shiny side is where the sun is.
You'd think I would have thought about it sooner. Or someone would have mentioned it. But this still feels like a revelation. See, I just took this photo about an hour ago:
The sun was to my left and a little behind me. Cuz it's morning, and I was facing vaguely southwest.
What this means for me, the fiction writer, is that I can get a character lost in the woods at night, and they can use the moon to navigate. Never mind puzzling over which side of the trees have the most moss (and whether that says more about local moisture levels than sun exposure).
If the sun just went down and you're still wandering around, then the shiny side of the moon is the west. Is your nearest town to the west of the forest? You could find your way home with that.
*jazz hands* Science!
A dinosaur fossil has been found in an unlikely place, a hole drilled under the parking lot of a Colorado museum where dinosaur skeletons ar
DENVER (AP) — A Denver museum known for its dinosaur displays has made a fossil bone discovery closer to home than anyone ever expected, under its own parking lot. It came from a hole drilled more than 750 feet (230 meters) deep to study geothermal heating potential for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. The museum is popular with dinosaur enthusiasts of all ages. Full-size dinosaur skeletons amaze kiddos barely knee-high to a parent, much less to a Tyrannosaurus. This latest find is not so visually impressive. Even so, the odds of finding the hockey-puck-shaped fossil sample were impressively small. With a bore only a couple of inches (5 centimeters) wide, museum officials struggled to describe just how unlikely it was to hit a dinosaur, even in a region with a fair number of such fossils. “Finding a dinosaur bone in a core is like hitting a hole in one from the moon. It’s like winning the Willy Wonka factory. It’s incredible, it’s super rare,” said James Hagadorn, the museum’s curator of geology. Only two similar finds have been noted in bore hole samples anywhere in the world, not to mention on the grounds of a dinosaur museum, according to museum officials. A vertebra of a smallish, plant-eating dinosaur is believed to be the source. It lived in the late Cretaceous period around 67.5 million years ago. An asteroid impact brought the long era of dinosaurs to an end around 66 million years ago, according to scientists. Fossilized vegetation also was found in the bore hole near the bone. “This animal was living in what was probably a swampy environment that would have been heavily vegetated at the time,” said Patrick O’Connor, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Dinosaur discoveries in the area over the years include portions of Tyrannosaurus rex and triceratops-type fossils. This one is Denver’s deepest and oldest yet, O’Connor said. Other experts in the field vouched for the find’s legitimacy but with mixed reactions. “It’s a surprise, I guess. Scientifically it’s not that exciting,” said Thomas Williamson, curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science in Albuquerque. There was no way to tell exactly what species of dinosaur it was, Williamson noted. The find is “absolutely legit and VERY COOL!” Erin LaCount, director of education programs at the Dinosaur Ridge track site just west of Denver, said by email. The fossil’s shape suggests it was a duck-billed dinosaur or thescelosaurus, a smaller but somewhat similar species, LaCount noted. The bore-hole fossil is now on display in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, of course, but there are no plans to look for more under the parking lot. “I would love to dig a 763-foot (233-meter) hole in the parking lot to excavate that dinosaur, the rest of it. But I don’t think that’s going to fly because we really need parking,” Hagadorn said.
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This study evaluated the effects of mealworm meal premix supplementation on the reproductive performance of adult peafowl and the growth and
God it's good to be right
This is study done on rearing peachicks in controlled settings. The scientists took dried, powdered mealworms ground with fish meal, to create a feed additive pre-mix. It had a whopping 84% protein and 10% fat content (along with a lot of other Very Good Things) because mealworms/superworms are basically all protein and fat. It's part of why I give them to the chicks here. The study mixed this premix into a standard feed at different ratios, and found that hey!! adding protein and fat to rapidly growing baby birds makes them grow better! Also, adding tasty bug bits to the feed makes the birds want to eat the feed because it tastes good!
Which is like a big "no shit sherlock" moment, like OBVIOUSLY that was going to be the case if you think about it at all, but man is it hard to convince people of this. I have been begging people to give their birds better protein/fat content for the last 10 years, advising people to give mealworms and superworms to chicks asap as a part of their normal diet. I have been advising people give feeder fish if they can or utilize fish meal if they can't. It's good for them!!! And now there's science that agrees!!
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Imagine Grace, Rocky, Simon on Grace's ship. Grace is working in the lab as Rocky guards the doorway. Keeping Simon out. "I'm sorry," is all Simon can say. Grace looks up from the microscope with a smile. "I'm not." Studying Grace's eyes, Simon searches for any hint of red. "Why?" he finally asks, voice a little broken. "Because Grace stupid," Rocky stomps, the translator mangling their speech. "Grace being not smart. Grace not understand, statement." "No," Grace drawls. "I know what's happening. It's an infection of sorts, one that seems to involve some kind of quantum entanglement." He smirks. "And while I'm not a quantum physicist, I am a molecular biologist. I eat infections for breakfast!" Rocky flails. "Now Grace eating bad food! Stupid!" Simon frowns. "But… why aren't you sorry?" Grace grins. "Because I can run tests on myself now!" "How the fuck is that a good thing?!" The smile turns soft. "Because then I'm not hurting you." Rocky tilts towards Grace, then Simon. Before sighing, musically. "Stupid."