Interesting. It puts things in perspective.
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âŚdevelop their own accent.
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Shockingly, most of these stories relate to how living a sane and healthy life can help keep you sane and healthy. Surprising, I know.
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The marsupial mole, an elusive creature that swims through the sands of remote Australian deserts, seems to have suffered an abrupt population crash about 70,000 years ago, possibly due to climate change.
The elusive Sand Trout!
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Furthermore, the possibility of tuning these properties is demonstrated by adding chitosan (Ch) and borate ions (BB), leading to remarkable mechanical and adhesive performances up to 107 MPa and 280 kPa, respectively, which allows the retrieval of objects from the ejected structure. This process can be finely tuned to achieve a controlled fabrication of instantaneously formed adhesive hydrogel fibers for manifold applications, mimicking living organismsâ ability to eject tunable adhesive functional threads.
This is a long, boring way of saying
THEY INVENTED SPIDERMANâS WEB SLINGING!!!
They should certainly lead with that!
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The most disturbing part of that article for me was the acknowledgement at the end that they used ChatGPT to help write it. No publication in the BMJ, satire or otherwise, should be using generative AI. But at least they openly acknowledged it, so thatâs something I guess.
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The movies are cool, especially the last two, showing items laying on sand being picked up.
Good way to clean the catâs litter box.
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How many corgis is that?
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But I was lead to believe that ancient humans were carnivorous hunters. No plant matter consumed at all. So the definitely wouldnât have genes to digest carbs.
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A very fine tree indeed. But Iâm not sure by which metric it could compete for âworldâs largest.â If youâre going by crown diameter then it doesnât come close to the Great Banyan Tree in West Bengal, India, which has a crown thatâs over twice that diameter. (Banyans cheat by dropping multiple trunks from their braches, but still, they get pretty huge,)
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Fair point. Post edited.
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Still, that is a very cool tree and I wish it well.
But I have to point out Pando. The forest made up of a single tree, that might be more than 10,000 years old:
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Single-trunk crown diameter, maybe? Itâs not the tallest, probably not the largest single trunk by volume, diameter or mass.
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Yes, they are aware that they could also find pathogens and are taking precautions.
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Pandoraâs glaciers
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Misquoted, and misattributed:
[Now, my own suspicion is that] not only is the universe queerer than we suppose, it is queerer than we can suppose.
âJ. B. S. Haldane, (1927) âPossible Worldsâ
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The internet misattributed a quote? Itâs unpossible! 
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