woken up by a racket outside, turns out an adjacent house set on fire due to hoarding used batteries, which feels like a pointed act of god telling me, the main character of life, to dispose of my bucket of used batteries
Archaeopteryx. The ur-example of a 'transitional fossil', Archaeopteryx was discovered in 1861. Until well into the 21st Century, reference works described it as the earliest bird, but scientific consensus now agrees it was an fairly typical small theropod dinosaur.
"very few women were involved in the history of computing"
For over 100 years, from the mid 1800s into the 1960s, the word "computer" named a job that was mostly held by women. That's longer than we've had electronic computers.
There's definitely greater issues going on right now, but losing these accounts genuinely robs Twitter of tiny little specks of joy and niceness.
It's like whenever you see a lil piece of street art scraped off the walls in the name of "cleanliness". It wasn't harming anyone.
Can't believe I missed the 40th anniversary of the single most sanity-warping print error ever committed to print. The gnawing, eldritch, Lovecraftian horror of this Peterborough Standard society page from April 18, 1980.
Theremony at tremony at the liremony indeed.
It never gets old. When a helicopter's propeller is perfectly synced with the camera frame rate, the result is always astounding
[why it happens: https://t.co/cXKhRACDla]
[source: https://t.co/vtqIGX0f34]
We are 'Go' for our 15th year of #Chickam!😃
28 C-Seeds have been placed in the ReptiPro...now to wait for three weeks.
I'll candle the eggs in 10 days to see how many embryos we have.
Meanwhile, they'll get turned 5 times a day!🐣
Let’s talk about sexual dimorphism in humans.
This is something that comes up a lot in Jordan Peterson & incel circles. And it sets you up for terrible answers, because it fundamentally misunderstands the question.
A better question: why are human males and females so SIMILAR.