These creatures were of course the first things I thought of, but they werenāt created from someone tinkering with photosynthesis in order to increase food supplies. But they are the sort of thing that could result from that.
āsci fi stories where tinkering with photosynthesis goes wrongā - Googled that, but got āIt looks like there arenāt many great matches for your searchā; same message when the word āmoviesā was used. Gotta work on that, I 'spect.
My dad & I walked out on this one. We were lured in by the drawing power of the name āH. G. Wellsā. When Ida Lupino - Howard Keelās wife at one point - started getting her chewed on, thatās what did it for us. From 1976:
No giant babies?
Are they in the original story? I regret to admit that Iāve never read it (I was more of a Verne kid).
Itās about the only thing I remember from the original.
We walked out fairly early on in the film. I was 12, dad was 53.
Maybeā¦
Thereās a new scientist article, but itās probably paywalled.
Thatās another thing incognito windows are good for; Iāve been on my āfirstā article with Vanity Far for months now. But, I didnāt have to go there for this.
And how can we bring back the Latin āiā to pluralize words like clitoris, octopus, and penis?
Addendum: My favorite sentence: āI ask questions where I think there are interesting questions to be asked.ā
In newly published research, we found that itās not conservatives in general who tend to promote false information, but rather a smaller subset of them who also share two psychological traits: low levels of conscientiousness and an appetite for chaos. Importantly, we found that several other factors we tested for ā including support for former President Donald Trump ā did not reliably predict an inclination to share misinformation.
We decided to investigate the role personality traits might play, focusing our research on conscientiousness ā the tendency to regulate oneās own behavior by being less impulsive and more orderly, diligent and prudent.
We found that low-conscientiousness liberals, high-conscientiousness liberals and high-conscientiousness conservatives each expressed willingness to share fake news articles to a similar ā relatively small ā degree. LCCs stood out: On average, they were 2.5 times more likely to share misinformation than the combined averages of the other three groups. In other words, it was the combination of conservatism and low conscientiousness that resulted in the greatest likelihood to share misinformation.
We also wanted to understand what, exactly, drives LCCs to spread misinformation. So, in one of the studies, we asked participants to report their leanings on a range of potential influences: level of support for Trump, time spent on social media, distrust of the mainstream media, and endorsement of conservative social and economic values. To our surprise, none of these factors was a reliable predictor of LCCsā elevated tendency to share false news stories.
No shit.
Hereās a preprint:
i say reinstate Plutoās planetary status. so what if it adds tons of new planets to our system? that would be cool!
Did you take this quiz? What did it categorize you as?
IIRC, it said I used the hydrostatic equilibrium criterion.
If itās not the major influence in its own resonant orbit, no.
A planet is any non star-like object that can be theoretically observed using current technology, from a hypothetical vantage point located at least 25 light years from our sun.
Sometimes people say we should return to the āoriginal definition.ā So any object, above Earthās atmosphere, that moves relative to the fixed stars.
The cosmic microwave background is, of course, the most distant planet so far discovered, since itās receding relative to all the stars.
i didnāt initially, but if you mean the quiz thatās intermittent during the article, i just did and it said i wasā¦ āconfusedā ā which, on one hand, is a regular occurrence for me, but here i think means that i agreed with a little from Column A and a little from Column B in the argument. but i stand by my original position, in the end: make it and all the other planetoids of similar size and &tc into a planet, and letās increase the number in our solar system. Side note: CERES BELTALOWDA!