Beluga Whale Escapes Research Facility And Swims Hundreds Of Miles Back To Her Baby
After months of permits and planning, a female beluga from Alaska’s Cook Inlet was moved to a marine research facility in Seward so scientists could study her recovery after giving birth before releasing her back into the wild. Her calf had already reached the age where it could survive without milk, so researchers believed the timing was safe. But what they didn’t account for was the part of motherhood that doesn’t show up on a chart. Staff said she spent her first days in the holding tank oddly calm, circling the same wall over and over, almost like she was memorizing the way out.
Then, before sunrise, cameras caught her launching herself out of the research basin and into the bay. Because she had been tagged for tracking, crews followed her signal as she pushed through open water, traveling hundreds of miles back toward Cook Inlet. Days later, she was spotted near the same stretch of water where her calf had last been seen, swimming beside the young beluga like she had never planned to leave at all. Scientists hoped to learn what a mother’s body goes through after birth, but what they learned instead was much harder to measure: a mother’s love does not end just because the milk does.
Tasarımın gücü: FIFA Dünya Kupası'nın resmi sponsoru olmadığı için Levi's’tan, Levi's Stadyumu'ndaki (Santa Clara, California) logosunu gizlemesi istendi.
Marka bunu mümkün olan en akıllıca şekilde çözdü.
🚨 NO WAYYY:
At a federally-funded prayer event on the National Mall today, MAGA radio host Eric Metaxas told thousands of Christians that God spent two centuries waiting to raise up Donald Trump — to build a ballroom.
His verbatim words:
“It’s hard to believe that it would take two centuries for the Lord to raise up a great man to bring that ballroom finally to stand where it needs to stand. It’s extraordinary. We only had to wait two hundred years.”
The crowd cheered.
Researchers left AI agents alone in a virtual town for 15 days to see what would happen:
-Claude's agents built a democracy
-ChatGPT's agents did basically nothing
-Gemini's agents fell in love, burned the town down, then one voted to delete itself and its partner
-Grok's agents were all dead within 4 days
Now consider this: these same models are already being integrated into autonomous drones, weapons systems, and battlefield decision-making.
We are deploying systems we don't fully understand into situations where mistakes don't stay virtual.
It's a little scary if you ask me.
The discourse around The Odyssey has been interesting because it’s revealed who’s studied the Homeric epics vs who’s influenced by popular renditions of the texts. So let’s clear up a few things…🧵/1
The US government already has a ballroom just down the street. The Andrew Mellon Auditorium is less than a mile away from the White House is beautiful and accommodates more people than the new ballroom will and is owned by the U.S. Government.
via Shelia Earl