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[Jason @JansonHorhan]

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[ay lupita @combodobleeme]

Mi depto con 23 años viviendo sola

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

That pinecone in your bathroom is completely dead. Not a single cell in the whole thing is alive. And yet, the moment your shower fills the room with steam, it closes up on its own. Dead wood, reacting to moisture, all by itself.

Each of those little wooden scales has two layers inside. The bottom layer soaks up water and swells by about 20%. The top layer barely moves. So when one side gets bigger and the other stays put, the whole scale bends upward and curls shut, same way a piece of paper curls when one side gets wet. Air dries out, bottom layer shrinks, scale drops open again. Pine trees have been running this exact design for about 390 million years, more than 150 million years before the first dinosaurs showed up.

It does all of this for one reason: seeds. If seeds fell during rain, they'd just land right next to the parent tree and fight for the same sunlight. So the cone seals shut and waits. When conditions turn dry and windy, scales open and lightweight seeds catch the breeze and travel way farther from home. Look closely and the scales sit in spirals, 8 going one way and 13 the other. Same pattern you see in sunflower heads.

I had to read this next part twice. In the 1960s, German coal miners pulled a few pinecones out of a coal deposit. Nobody thought much of it at the time. Decades later, a research team at the University of Freiburg got hold of them and figured out one was about 120,000 years old. Another was roughly 15 million years old. They soaked them in water. Both still closed up. Moved about half as much as a fresh pinecone, but after 15 million years underground with zero maintenance, the mechanism still worked. The coal had kept the wood flexible instead of turning it to stone.

Engineers looked at this and started copying it. A team at the Universities of Stuttgart and Freiburg made 424 tiny panels out of wood fiber, designed to change shape on their own when humidity shifts, copying the pinecone's two-layer trick. They stuck them on a building's south-facing window. In winter, the panels curled open on their own to let sunlight warm the inside. Come summer, they flattened and blocked it. The whole system runs without electricity, motors, or wiring, just wood fiber reacting to weather the same way it has for 390 million years. They published the results in Nature Communications after a full year of testing. Every panel still worked.

Your bathroom pinecone is a humidity sensor that predates dinosaurs by 150 million years, runs on dead wood and physics, and engineers are still trying to copy its homework.

[Jason @JansonHorhan]

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[Jason @JansonHorhan]

@talktoBOI is there a charge to replace a faulty card? My one expires 2028 but no longer works

[UK Girl Group Archive @GGARCHIVEUK]

16. Black Coffee - All Saints (2000)

#1 for 1 week

[🦝MelohRush🦝 🔜 Sonic Expo Atlanta @MelohRush]

Ash has an illegal Snorlax that has used over 6 different moves in a single battle

[ʇɹɐ ⚓️ @artruckus]

🏴‍☠️ websites getting very professional these days ! good good

[Zara Larsson News @newszlarsson]

Zara Larsson's FULL PERFORMANCE of 'Midnight Sun' on New Year's Rockin' Eve last night!

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

SNL's alternate HOME ALONE ending is pretty great 😂

[Midnight Sun Tour @midnightsuntour]

Jade sings ‘Midnight Sun’ and expresses her admiration for Zara Larsson in a recent interview.

[cmat @cmatbaby]

i literally cannot believe this

[the thicc husband & father @lukeisamazing]

doctors and nurses washing their hands when treating patients. an idea so crazy, so insane, that the guy who first suggested it was institutionalized for insisting upon it

[Jason @JansonHorhan]

@cineworld Hiee

[Sky News @SkyNews]

A famous anti-piracy campaign from the early 2000s is in the spotlight after it appeared the font used in the adverts was pirated

Read more 🔗

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[RTÉ News @rtenews]

The Freemasons of Ireland are to donate the money they were paid for hosting an interview between Conor McGregor and Tucker Carlson to charity https://t.co/lykwQ139v5

[Irish Independent @Independent_ie]

Irish law will protect transgender people from discrimination following landmark court ruling in UK https://t.co/Iq5NoF4hAp

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I cannot stop watching this 😭😭😭 pure cinema, I’m still in tears #CBBUK

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When Mickey Rourke has to nominate, DON'T edit it down. Show us the full chaos of Big Brother having to explain the nominations process like they did with Jackie Stallone #CBBUK