Raven
from Alice Starmore’s new knitting book, Glamourie, from Dover Publications.
God.
While I scrolled down I went from
Oh cool feather like hood
Oh wow
Ohhhh fuck.
Freaking fancy high fashion knits.
wuut.
THERES A PATTERN!?
I’m hollering
Seaweed fight, Devon, England, 1930
Snakes are known for their iconic S-shaped movements. But they have a less noticeable skill that gives them a unique superpower.
Snakes can crawl in a straight line.
University of Cincinnati biologist Bruce Jayne studied the mechanics of snake movement to understand exactly how they can propel themselves forward like a train through a tunnel.
“It’s a very good way to move in confined spaces,” Jayne said. “A lot of heavy-bodied snakes use this locomotion: vipers, boa constrictors, anacondas and pythons.”
His study titled “Crawling without Wiggling” was published in December in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
This is fascinating, and in other news: find yourself a man who looks at you the way Dr Bruce Jayne looks at snakes.
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Exodus: Proxima Centauri is digital adaption of the highly regarded tabletop game of the same name, which plans to enhance its brand of epic 4X empire building and tactical space battles with immersive visual design and asynchronous cross-platform multiplayer matches.
Chao Xing and the Desouzas.
Did you know there are only about 3,200 wild tigers in the whole wild world? Please be kind to these beautiful beasties before they one day just become mythical creatures.
Did giant mushrooms rule the Devonian land?
As the first land plants colonised the land around the early Devonian period (419 to 359 million years ago), and the tallest trees were only a metre high, enigmatic fossils up to 8 metres tall and 1 wide were the globe’s largest surface organism, and possibly largest life form. These fossils, found worldwide and called Protoaxites, have puzzled palaeontologists since their first discovery in 1843.
Just when we thought octopuses couldn’t be any weirder, it turns out that they and their cephalopod brethren evolve differently from nearly every other organism on the planet.
In a surprising twist, scientists have discovered that octopuses, along with some squid and cuttlefish species, routinely edit their RNA (ribonucleic acid) sequences to adapt to their environment.
This is weird because that’s really not how adaptations usually happen in multicellular animals. When an organism changes in some fundamental way, it typically starts with a genetic mutation - a change to the DNA.
The findings have been published in Cell.
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I hope in the disco elysium sequel they reveal that Kim has a normal boyfriend named like Steve
Also harry needs to take it badly it needs to be like
KIM— “His name is Steve. He is my fiance.”
LOGIC (failure)— You guys are best friends and you haven’t met steve yet? This guy is NOT real.
HALF LIGHT— Kill steve.
(NEW TASK: KILL STEVE)
VOLITION— What? No!!
HALF LIGHT— okay.
(NEW TASK: KILL YOURSELF AT THEIR WEDDING)
