What are you reading?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/why-96-million-black-balls-were-released-into-a-los-angeles-reservoir/vi-AA1NvSSO?ocid=socialshare

I’ve read where this has been done other places to help prevent evaporation.

Right now I'm currently Reading Python Crash Course and Python Programming..The plan is to help me learn more about cyber security and learning tools

@silvermouse said:
@MoleRat

Perhaps you live in the kind of household that likes to divide up the chores. You take the dishes, while someone else does the trash. If so, you are not so far off from the habits of a naked mole-rat, according to a new study.

The findings, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, show that individual naked mole-rats perform specific duties for their colony, including digging, transporting garbage, and cleaning the “toilets.” The study reveals that the rats undertake a form of task allocation that helps the colony function more efficiently, according to the researchers.

https://gizmodo.com/some-naked-mole-rats-are-just-born-to-clean-toilets-study-suggests-2000670578

Honey bees do the same. And they are probably the only animal that raises daughters to not go out and mate. Males,drones are pretty much a waste. Either breed and die or do nothing until fall/winter when the girls throw you out of the hive, and then they die.

In our household even the adults got chores. The chore wheel worked great, that and making the kids "cook" at least one night each week, do laundry, and shop prepared them for moving out.

https://www.newswise.com/articles/a-prototype-led-as-thin-as-wallpaper-that-glows-like-the-sun/?sc=dwhn&user=10024121

Cracks me up when people are considered “foodies” for eating something people have been eating for centuries. Chapulinas are pretty good.

Dragonflies are master predators, catching up to 95% of the prey they go after.⁠ For comparison, birds of prey only capture around 25%.⁠ Part of dragonflies’ predatorial prowess comes from the aerial acrobatics allowed by having four wings that can work separately, in pairs, or together. Dragonflies can even fly backwards⁠. Each wing is a gossamer extension of the exoskeleton, only about 3 micrometers⁠ thick—a little over 1/10,000th of an inch—yet it can hold up through the weeks to months of a dragonfly’s adult life.

Thinner than a human hair, dragonfly wings are highly durable, with antimicrobial, water-resistant, and anti-reflective properties and more. In a new study, a group of researchers examine a variety of chemical and structural qualities of dragonfly wings (of the species Aethriamanta rezia, shown here) to seek inspiration for human technical innovation. (Photo by mmatthiessen via iNaturalist, CC BY-NC 4.0)

More here:
https://entomologytoday.org/2025/10/14/dragonfly-wings-marvels-strength-durability/

I did not know they went after bees. Learn something new every day. Thanks.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/16/plug-in-hybrids-pollute-almost-as-much-as-petrol-cars-report-finds?mc_cid=6b026351f2&mc_eid=965c24ad20

Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) pump out nearly five times more planet-heating pollution than official figures show, a report has found.

The cars, which can run on electric batteries as well as combustion engines, have been promoted by European carmakers as a way to cover long distances in a single drive – unlike fully electric cars – while still reducing emissions.

Data shows PHEVs emit just 19% less CO2 than petrol and diesel cars, an analysis by the non-profit advocacy group Transport and Environment found on Thursday. Under laboratory tests, they were assumed to be 75% less polluting.

The researchers analysed data from the onboard fuel consumption meters of 800,000 cars registered in Europe between 2021 and 2023. They found real-world carbon dioxide emissions from PHEVs in 2023 were 4.9 times greater than those from standardised laboratory tests, having risen from being 3.5 times greater in 2021.

“Real-world emissions are going up, while official emissions are going down,”

@ShawnOL said:
It was a con job all along.

Wonder how much of this was done with sending money to China since they produced many of the batteries.

In May 1921, American polymath Walter Russell entered a 39-day coma-like state, during which he claimed to have accessed “the source In May 1921, American polymath Walter Russell entered a 39-day coma-like state, during which he claimed to have accessed “the source of all knowledge" Upon awakening, he frantically wrote down what he had seen—pages filled with philosophical, scientific, and spiritual revelations that would later form the foundation of his manuscript The Universal One. Though he sent his findings to 500 leading minds of the time, nearly all dismissed him as mad—except one. Nikola Tesla, the visionary inventor, was so struck by Russell’s insights that he urged him to seal the work away for a thousand years, insisting that humanity was not yet ready for its truths.

Walter Russell’s revelations reimagined the very structure of reality. He argued that matter was not solid but crystallized light slowed by thought—that everything around us, from rocks to human bodies, was composed of light patterns, shaped by consciousness. He believed the universe was fundamentally mental, not material, and that all things moved in rhythmic cycles—expansion and contraction, like breath. He dismissed opposites like good and evil as illusions, asserting instead that everything sought harmony and balance. To Russell, death wasn’t an end but the release of compressed light returning to its source. Even time, he claimed, wasn’t linear, but a spiral where past, present, and future coexisted.

These ideas were radically ahead of their time, blending metaphysics, wave dynamics, and a deep sense of universal unity. He believed electricity was a living spiral of energy, not merely electrons in motion, and that the vacuum of space was in fact a vibrant sea of untapped potential. Health, in his view, was the natural rhythm of the body, and disease was simply a disruption of that flow. Though ignored or ridiculed during his lifetime, Russell’s work now draws new attention in an era where quantum physics and consciousness studies begin to echo the same questions. To many, he is no longer a forgotten eccentric, but a prophet of a paradigm yet to come.

source: Facebook, lol.