A Dinosaur-Era Plant Has Been Discovered Alive And Well in The US
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Slimy slugs inspire ‘potentially lifesaving’ medical glue
Titan, also known as the mermaid moon, is the largest satellite of Jupiter. It is the only known moon in our solar system that has a dense atmosphere, and the only object other than Earth where evidence of surface liquid has been found; however, the liquid on Titan is made of methane, not water.
In case you still have doubts about this
FARMBOT GENESIS: This robot is changing farming as we know it
And the best part about this technology is that it’s open source, meaning you can build one yourself from the blueprints that are available for anyone to download.
Check out the full video to find out more about Farmbot Genesis.
This is so neat.
THE FUTURE IS NOW, PEOPLE
Does it…is it killing the weeds by STABBING THEM?
Farmbot: GET! BACK! DOWN! IN! DIRT! YOU! NOT! FOOD!
I WANT ONE
A FRIEND
For those million of people, VR could make a huge difference | follow @the-future-now
@insurrectionarycompassion remember that small exchange on a FB post you made abt how technology can and will affect humans cognitive abilities positively and i commented wondering what can do for seniors with dementia to retain their memories. i just saw this post, the future is now.
So cuttlefish have some kind of rudimentary(?) language that has a gestural component. Or, if you don’t want to call it language, they communicate with each other, in part, through gesturing with their arms. (Not sure how a consistent system of signs isn’t a language but I’m not a linguist).
Anyway, there is a tank of cuttlefish at the New England aquarium. Usually, the animals totally ignore the visitors. Once when I was there with a friend, the cuttlefish were signing to each other. My friend held his hand up to the glass and began to imitate their gestures with his fingers, and then made a sequence of random signs.
The cuttlefish became extremely agitated and signed furiously at him and rapidly flashed different colors, and we will never know what he accidentally said to them.
The moral of this story is actually that it’s fucked up how we keep sentient and sensitive beings in a weird little fish jail.
After knowing a few different swan families for two years, we learned some of the sign language they use for “Hello friend! (You know me)” and “Sorry.” Their vocalizations are a little difficult to mimic, but “Hello friend!” and “sorry” are gestures done with the head. There’s also “Hey! Hey! (come start a fight)” which, in a human, involves hands and arms.
You can actually get into a feedback loop saying “Hello friend” to friendly swans that actually know you, where you say it and then they get excited and say it back, and then you say it again and they feel like they have to respond. And if you meet a strange swan and they behave aggressively towards you, you can get them to calm down and even say “sorry” by telling them that you know them. This is often easy to lie to them about, since swans think all humans look very similar.
Anyway! It is extremely funny because when humans walking outside encounter a swan, the humans often say “Hey! Hey!” in Swan, and when the swan puffs up and says “Excuse me?” the human says “Come start a fight!” and the swan, particularly if it’s defending a nest, is like “Fine. Okay. I’ll end this.”
And then the human complains that swans are awfully Hostile and Aggressive.
/linguist mode on/ sticking my nose in briefly to say that a consistent system of signs used for communication is definitely a language /linguist mode off/
this seems like useful info for anyone writing sci-fi/fantasy and trying to think about how non-human languages might look!
Okay but WHAT are the signs for “hey friend!” and “sorry”? This is vital information.
Science finally supports that we are all born as blank slates and gender is merely a construct
If any of my followers believes that “brain sex” is a rigid and well defined category check this out
I actually did a study on this in my freshman year of university!
I had to give a ten minute presentation on gender and a) how it’s different from sex, and b) whether or not there’s such thing as a “male” and “female” brain.
I found COUNTLESS studies supporting the idea that the brain itself is unisex- there is very little, if any, difference between “male” and “female” brains, with one exception. I’m by no means a neuroscientist but this is what I understood from this particular article: there’s this tiny part of the hypothalamus (a small part of the brain) that has neutrons in it, and the number of neutrons varies. HOWEVER, when the brains of cis men and women and trans men and women (who had not taken hormones for years prior to the time of death) were studied, it was found that the cis men and trans men had almost identical average neutron counts, and the cis women and trans women had almost identical average neutron counts. So if you’re DMAB but realize at some point that you’re a trans woman, as far as your brain is concerned, you ARE a woman! The same goes for DFAB trans men (intersex/nonbinary individuals weren’t studied, unfortunately).
TLDR; Your brain doesn’t care what you were “born as”, only what you really are!
I’m currently reading a fantastic book that goes through and debunks old studies that “find evidence” to support gender roles. SPOILER ALERT: they were all poorly done studies and their evidence is unsupported bullshit.
Science finally supports that we are all born as blank slates and gender is merely a construct
Warm-bloodedness possibly much older than previously thought: Characteristic may have developed 20 million years earlier, study shows
This is really huge. The reason isn’t just that Ophiacodon may have been warm blooded. It’s that it puts warm bloodedness that much closer to the origin of Reptiles. It may have been a common trait in the early Reptiles from which Ophiacodon arose. The Reptiles we see now may have later lost the ability to generate their own heat.
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