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AFTER SPENDING FIVE HOURS WORKING ON EXCEL
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spirit animal
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you know what’s really dumb
the whole ‘love triangle’ and ‘you can only choose ONE’ thing in romance plotlines
like fuck you
just once
i want a hero/heroine to step back, flip the bird to the author, and say “you know what, i want both...
So I just finished THIS book. Spoilers ahead, so I guess don't click the title if you don't want to know.
Basically that is how the love triangle resolved itself. I was a bit impressed.
New office number three...
True facts about the mantis
I’m so passing this out next year on Valentine’s Day.
Scandalous!
At the orchestra. I'm fancy!
Makin linguine and clam sauce the way my mom does
Smooth jazz and linguine
Erin's new duck face
made me some more grits
So let me tell you about some of the most adorable research about beetles going on right now.
Done by Marie Dacke and Jochen Smolka (and many others) this work has led to many interesting insights, all of which are overshadowed by the research methods of the group.
Namely, these guys love to put clothes on beetles.
The picture on the right of the dung beetle (Scarabaeus lamarcki) wearing some stylish green silicon boots comes from the much-publicized paper in late 2012 by Smolka et al entitled "Dung Beetles use their dung ball as a thermal refuge". Published in Current Biology, this paper found out that the balls of dung constructed and rolled around by the intrepid little dung beetles provided the beetles with a place to escape the scorching desert sand. Not only that, the dung balls also acted as a heat sink!
Since the balls are cooler than the surrounding sand, they absorb heat from it. Dung beetles push their balls in front of them as they move through the desert, and this can actually lower the temperature of the surrounding sand by 1.5 degrees C. (This is about 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, for all those unfamiliar with metric).
Back to the boots- Smolka et al coated the beetle's legs with heat-resistant silicon in order to gauge which legs the beetles use to sense heat. It turns out they seem to sense the hot sand with the protibia of their front legs.
The picture on the left shows a beetle with a rather dashing hat. This hat was used in the 2013 paper by Dacke et al titled "Dung Beetles use Milky Way for orientation", also published in Current Biology.
In this paper, the authors determined that a different species of dung beetle (Scarabaeus satyrus) used not only stars in the night sky, but specifically the Milky Way galaxy to keep themselves rolling their dung ball in a straight line.
When the beetle's vision was obscured with these stylish hats, they took significantly longer to push their dung ball out of a predetermined arena because they couldn't seem to push it in a straight line.
A further battery of tests confirmed that these beetles actually use the Milky way galaxy specifically to orient themselves and keep moving in a straight line.
With all that in mind, I encourage whomever reads this to go and put clothes on any animal you find, and record your observations.
Trust me, it is for science.
EDIT: This post got over 500 notes! Wow! Thanks Tumblr! (also I fixed some of my math)
according to an internet quiz, these are my favorite pokemon
Kecleon is apparently my favorite pokemon. the others go in descending order from left to right, so Solosis is number 2, Reuniclus is number 3, Volcarona is number 4, and so on
It is
actually rather accurate, when I sit and think about it.
And, obviously, I like Mudkips