@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-08-05 13:25:42
Uncanny. a few weeks ago, I found a manuscript of my Dad's from 1991. A sci fi allegory, a warning about ecosystem destruction. In it, aliens from another planet are intelligent kangaroo-like beings that have retractable wings. The wings allow them to photosynthesise. And in 1993, a sea slug was discovered that also does photosynthesis, although in its case by sequestering chloroplasts from algae. It's the Guardian's invertebrate of the year.
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-08-29 13:00:59
"39 Chicks Strengthen Darwin’s Rhea Rewilding in Patagonia"
#Patagonia #Animals
https://happyeconews.…
@jamie@boothcomputing.social2026-07-08 00:37:31
Serious question, when a batter is 3-3 with 3 home runs and 10 RBIs in a game, WHY, WHY, WHY are you pitching to him....
If you walk him with the bases loaded the most he can do is get one RBI.
#baseball
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-30 17:51:00
Google pilots a faster twice-a-week schedule for Chrome security releases as AI tools drive a surge in bug discoveries; Chrome 149 and 150 fixed 1,072 bugs (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/chrome-needs-twice-a-week-patching-…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-09-02 13:53:03
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-02 20:41:25
* A law to sell [parts of] Argentina to the ultra-rich of the world *
On Aug 6, the Argentine Senate plans to vote on Milei's new bill,
the Private Property Inviolability Law.
If approved, tech tycoons like Peter Thiel will be able to keep the water, energy & climate of Patagonia
-- By F. Gomez, 7/31/26
(h/t. Jenny Cohn)
@@arXiv_physicsatomph_bot@mastoxiv.page@mastoxiv.page2026-08-07 07:52:33
Large anomalous shifts of potassium-39 Feshbach resonances
Ali Zaheer, Mohammed Bouras, Krzysztof Giergiel, Rudolf Grimm, Andrei Sidorov, Peter Hannaford
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05512
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-09-26 08:02:31
“In ‘The Last of Us’ universe, rising temperatures cause Cordyceps to evolve and adapt to human body temperatures. Concerningly, this somewhat parallels real life. Climate change is another risk factor for fungal diseases that has given rise to a worrisome pathogen. ‘What does concern me as an infectious disease physician is a relatively new fungus called Candida auris,’ says Roberts. ‘This fungus spreads person-to-person, which hasn’t really been reported before.’ First identified in 2009, …
@seemannsmission@c.im2026-08-04 18:40:16
Tag der offenen Tür bei der Deutschen Seemannsmission Wilhelmshaven am 8.8.26 ab 11 Uhr
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-09-03 10:10:38
Anker unveils the Eufy MindBase, a local AI hub for its cameras that runs an on-device, Anker-developed LLM, with a dedicated AI chip and up to 48TB of storage (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/987936/anker-eufy-mindba…
