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Interesting. Wonder if an air boat wouldn't be easier to maneuver .
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I’ve read where this has been done other places to help prevent evaporation.
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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Dammit, Maud, you're driving me nuts, I'm not irritable
Irritable Male Syndrome (IMS) Is An Actual Condition — And It Could Explain A Lot
While not a clinical diagnosis, experts say it’s an accurate description of a cluster of symptoms that often appears in aging men.I'm sure my Pops had this, that's how I learned how to cuss when he worked on the car
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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
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First-Known Animal Butt-Drag Discovered in 126,000-Year-Old Fossil
By Luis PradaOctober 9, 2025, 9:17am
https://www.vice.com/en/article/first-known-animal-butt-drag-discovered-in-126000-year-old-fossil/
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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
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@silvermouse said:
@MoleRatPerhaps 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.
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Mole Rats are awesome! Just Saying 😄
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Cracks me up when people are considered “foodies” for eating something people have been eating for centuries. Chapulinas are pretty good.
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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A cellular entity retaining only its replicative core:
Hidden archaeal lineage with an ultra-reduced
genomeAbstract
Defining the minimal genetic requirements for cellular life remains a fundamental question in biology. Genomic exploration continually reveals
novel microbial lineages, often exhibiting extreme
genome reduction, particularly within symbiotic relationships. Here, we report the discovery of
Candidatus Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, a novel archaeon with an unprecedentedly small genome
of only 238 kbp —less than half the size of the
smallest previously known archaeal genome— from
a dinoflagellate-associated microbial community.
Phylogenetic analyses place Sukunaarchaeum as a
deeply branching lineage within the tree of Archaea,
representing a novel major branch distinct from established phyla. Environmental sequence data indicate that sequences closely related to Sukunaarchaeum form a diverse and previously overlooked
clade in microbial surveys. Its genome is profoundly stripped-down, lacking virtually all recognizable metabolic pathways, and primarily encoding
the machinery for its replicative core: DNA replication, transcription, and translation. This suggests an unprecedented level of metabolic dependence on a host, a condition that challenges the
functional distinctions between minimal cellular life
and viruses. The discovery of Sukunaarchaeum
pushes the conventional boundaries of cellular life
and highlights the vast unexplored biological novelty within microbial interactions, suggesting that
further exploration of symbiotic systems may reveal
even more extraordinary life forms, reshaping our
understanding of cellular evolution.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651781v1.full.pdf
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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/4 -
@silvermouse said:
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/New outlook on them. In the past I have despised them for the havoc they can play in whipping out a bee hive,
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I did not know they went after bees. Learn something new every day. Thanks.
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I've always thought they were cool. Those and preying mantis.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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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,”
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It was a con job all along.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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