Fun Facts We Didn't Need To Know

[gwand]

Someone will try this out on fish.

Researchers make mouse skin transparent using a common food dye

In a stunning experiment, researchers were able to see through a living mouse’s skin to its internal organs, simply by applying common light-absorbing molecules.

news.stanford.edu

 

[GaryE]

I just discovered that R.J. Lechmere Guppy was not a clergyman, as the usual stories about the naming of guppies say. I've known enough church guys who acted like guppies that I always thought it made sense. But no, he was an aristocratic British naturalist who lived in Trinidad and died in the USA.

If I ever have a son, Lechmere could be a good name for him.

 

[gwand]

There is hope for humanity after all.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/20/science/human-genome-crystal-intl-scli/index.html

 

[gwand]

The horror

Entitled Aunt Destroys His Siamese Fighting Fish’s Home And Life, So He Wrecks Her Most Sentimental Possession In Return

That definitely crossed a line.

twistedsifter.com

 

[Rocky998]

The horror

Entitled Aunt Destroys His Siamese Fighting Fish’s Home And Life, So He Wrecks Her Most Sentimental Possession In Return

That definitely crossed a line.

twistedsifter.com

Yikes

 

[Rocky998]

There is hope for humanity after all.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/20/science/human-genome-crystal-intl-scli/index.html

That's so cool

 

[gwand]

For you Wyoming folks

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/25/wyoming-california-alabama-the-5-most-optimistic-states-in-america.html

 

[WhistlingBadger]

For you Wyoming folks

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/25/wyoming-california-alabama-the-5-most-optimistic-states-in-america.html

I suspect it's because people who aren't optimistic tend not to stay here for long.

 

[jaylach]

There is hope for humanity after all.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/20/science/human-genome-crystal-intl-scli/index.html

I find this interesting but some of the comments even more so.

The horror

Entitled Aunt Destroys His Siamese Fighting Fish’s Home And Life, So He Wrecks Her Most Sentimental Possession In Return

That definitely crossed a line.

twistedsifter.com

What the aunt did was wrong but probably some of it MAY have been out of ignorance but still wrong. However, what he did is beyond being unforgivable and no different than if the aunt's grandfather had been cremated and he flushed the ashes down the toilet.

They both need some serious help but by the actions described we may see him on the news as the next school shooter.

 

[gwand]

This is an article for Jaylach and other avian enthusiasts.

Underestimated female tutors: Zebra finch mothers coach their sons to sing better

In the world of zebra finches, males sing, and females were thought to just listen. But a new study by Daniela Vallentin at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence has overturned this assumption.

phys.org

 

[jaylach]

This is an article for Jaylach and other avian enthusiasts.

Underestimated female tutors: Zebra finch mothers coach their sons to sing better

In the world of zebra finches, males sing, and females were thought to just listen. But a new study by Daniela Vallentin at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence has overturned this assumption.

phys.org

When I lived in Florida I bred and sold zebra finches. Trust me in that the females are just as vocal as the males.

Thanks for the article.

 

[GaryE]

I had some rescue zebra finches ("They're old and will only live 6 months or less" the shelter volunteer said). In the years I had them, I realized they and crows are the only birds even I can outsing. Their Mommas must have been sitting in jails across the road from their Dads' cells if singing is taught in their families.

 

[gwand]

Plants and fungi communicate using a silent language

Scientists found that plants communicate with fungi through strigolactones, boosting phosphate metabolism and growth.

www.earth.com