Wow. That place is creepy AF
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Colloquially known as “pouchies,” African giant pouched rats are large, mostly nocturnal rodents native to the African savanna. They can weigh up to four and a half pounds and are named after the pouches in their cheeks that they use to carry food back to their colonies for storage. They also have exceptionally powerful noses: The species’ olfactory bulbs account for 19 percent of total brain length. For over 20 years researchers at APOPO in Tanzania have been training the pouchies to sniff for stuff, including dangerous landmines and the pathogen that causes tuberculosis. (In both cases, researchers have found that the rats can complete four days’ worth of human work in about 30 minutes.)
Now new research shows pouchies can be effectively trained to detect illegally trafficked goods as well, including rhino horn, elephant ivory, pangolin scales, and even African blackwood, a highly coveted and endangered tree species. Through positive-reinforcement training—bites of tasty banana, avocado, and crushed chow pellets delivered through a food syringe—8 of 11 rats successfully learned how to remember and indicate target scents and ignore non-target odors.
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$5 wrench wins again!
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The frown on that guy’s face is priceless.
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Reminds me of “muscle memory.”
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Woman Warns TikTok Why You Should Never Use The Swim-Up Bar At A Resort Pool—And Yikes
https://www.comicsands.com/tiktoker-avoids-swim-up-bar-2657288479.html
Multiple surveys revealed the average pool is likely to contain as much as 20 gallons of urine.
And 19 percent of people participating in those surveys admitted to urinating in a pool at least once.
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Yes, but there’s so much water in the pool that it’s homeopathic urine.
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…and so much chlorine it makes your cuts hurt & bleaches yr hair. Besides, doesn’t everyone wash themselves off after en-pooling themselves?
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Yes, though it’s tough to also wash out what’s gone up your nose and down your throat. Bleh.
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We’re gonna need a smaller guillotine.
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Frank Herbert’s “genetic memory”? I see gholas!
Good place to add this from Dune 2:
Stilgar to Paul: “Centipedes are nasty.” Made me think of millipedes.
Then noticed this while very recently re-watching Dune 2, but this time (annoying most others in the room) going through the entirety of the end credits (something I do a lot). BTW: The DNEG vfx house is very busy:
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I don’t know if that comes in first or second to what I encountered as a child at the McCarren Pool (now closed?) in B’klyn: A turd at the bottom of the shallow end.
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