Facing down a new week of too many deadlines like this chestnut-backed chickadee (Poecile rufescens) in Stanley Park, Vancouver
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Gloo, which develops AI tools for Christian churches and counts Pat Gelsinger as executive chair, closed up 1% in its Nasdaq debut after raising $73M in its IPO (George Steer/Financial Times)
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Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Bdelloid rotifers are a microplankton that reproduce using parthenogenesis (female clones), but when environmental conditions become adverse (e.g. pond dries up), they can turn themselves into an extraordinaryly resistant inert "tun" through a process called cryptobiosis (like brine shrimp). Recently, Russian scientists thawed out
It's not that The vOICe vision BCI is so good, it's that the alternative invasive BCIs for restoring vision are so bad #BCI
A chestnut-backed chickadee, Poecile rufescens, gleaning in the branches of a larch on San Juan Island
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A western fence lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis, perched on a fence post, along the trail in Yosemite Valley this spring
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These weasels have locally adapted their winter coats to varying snow cover thanks to a million-year-old mutation
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