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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Scientists have released 130,000 baby octopuses into the Adriatic Sea to fight a blue crab that is hurting the fish industry.

Italian researchers are trying to protect Mediterranean shellfish with a biological counterattack. They put a large group of young common octopuses into the Adriatic.

The target is the invasive Atlantic blue crab, an aggressive crustacean from North America. Warmer seas have helped its numbers boom. The crabs pry open local clams and mussels with strong claws.

The damage has already cost Italy’s fishing industry an estimated 200 million euros and hit aquaculture hard.

Researchers at the University of Bologna are using the octopus’s natural diet. The common octopus hunts crabs. In lab trials, a single 600-gram octopus overpowered a 400-gram blue crab. A full-grown octopus can eat up to four crabs a day.

The young octopuses were released off Cesenatico. The hope is that enough will survive to rebuild a native predator population and ease the crab surge. Only a fraction of the day-old animals are expected to reach adulthood. Scientists still think that may be enough to start a lasting check on the invasion.

[Tomma, G. (2026). Scientists just unleashed an army of 130,000 baby octopuses to fight off a blue crab invasion. Scientific American]

[Martin Bauer @martinmbauer]

This is the Diamond Light Source, the UK's national synchrotron, and the largest scientific facility in the UK

It produces intense beams of (X-ray, IR and UV) light used for studying the atomic structure of materials in physics, biology, geology and medicine

[디멘 @dimenerno]

님들 저 짱신기한 책 구했어요

냉전 시기에 발간된 책인데 소련 수학자들의 논문을 읽는 데 필요한 최소한의 러시안어를 속성으로 주입시키는 책

불과 20몇페이지만에 모든 문법을 휘리릭 설명한 뒤 나머지는 수학 논문에서 나오는 단어들 사전입니다

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

The "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" was declassified in 2008 and it contains advice on how spies can sabotage the enemy by just being maliciously incompetent. Advice include praising inefficient coworkers, cry and sob frequently at work, asking inane questions in meetings, and spreading gossip.

The 5 Most Unbelievable Spy Stories of World War II https://t.co/KFhs5h5Tgo

[Petronella Wyatt @PetronellaWyatt]

Christopher Plummer, who was a concert standard pianist with a fine musical ear, was furious when his singing voice was dubbed in “The Sound Of Music” (1965), and went on a drunken rampage through Salzburg. (He told me in an interview that the dubbing incident was one of the reasons he was rude about the film.) This is Plummer’s original vocal performance of “Edelweiss” - a chance to hear the song as he recorded it.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Pope Francis considered "Babette's Feast" (1987) to be "One of the best movies he had ever seen" & it was one of his top 3 movies of all time. About the film, he said,

"The story takes place in a very strict Calvinist community in Denmark. The protagonists, two sisters, daughters of a Protestant pastor, had each fallen in love but rejected this feeling because it was wrongly considered contrary to the very strict morals they had inherited. They lived a life of renunciation, not only in love but in everything, including food and clothing. A kind of continuous self-flagellation.

The French cook Babette, a ‘foreigner’ in this context, after winning a rich lottery prize, decides to cook a sublime meal for the whole community, and by this gesture she manages to make everyone feel and see human beauty. She manages to make them perceive this divine pleasure that has been wrongly suppressed for too long.

Choosing one’s own food is one of those choices. It is a powerful mechanism for change: it means rewarding one productive and economic model rather than another."

P.S: On this day, 39 years ago, Gabriel Axel's "Babette's Feast" (1987) was released in Denmark.

[KKTeX @KKTeX_LaTeX3]

LaTeXエディター「TeX64」にtikzの描画機能を搭載しました。
https://t.co/YvNy5aqmlN

[Math Files @Math_files]

The Marksheet of Srinivasa Ramanujan- when he was in the University of Madras.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

"Allegro non molto" movement from Vivaldi's "Winter" performed by Latvian guitarist Laura Lāce, absolutely shredding the piece on a Harley Benton Fusion-III guitar.

[🎸 laura6100youtube]

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Business card dispenser

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Yanar Dag is a famous burning hill in Azerbaijan where natural gas flames have blazed continuously for centuries.

Historic travelers like Marco Polo wrote about these natural fires during the 13th century. These eternal flames gave Azerbaijan its nickname, the "Land of Fire."

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Infusing cigars with whiskey

[📹 SikarInfuse]

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A real calico cat with two different colored eyes.

Heterochromia iridum is a condition in which human or animal eyes have different colors.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The stages of a GLOF, a Glacier Lake Outburst Flood, , also known as a Jökulhlaup.

This particular event at Columbia Glacier in Alaska happens at least once a year, and the basin/lake usually takes about a day and a half to drain.

There’s no infrastructure affected here, so these events mostly go unnoticed.

[📹 Leigh Coates / helipilotleigh]

[ⲕⲁⲣⲟⲗ ♱ @byzantinecopt]

this is amazing. the semantron has existed since early christian monastic communities, & during periods of persecution such as it was under ottoman rule, who often restricted the use of church bells, wooden semantrons were used instead.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

"Bing, bing, bing! Every five seconds, you have a new email."

2019 physics laureate Michel Mayor was at an airport in Spain when he heard the news about his #NobelPrize and the messages began to flood in.

Starting 5 October, we will begin announcing this year's laureates.

[IceCube Neutrino Observatory @uw_icecube]

🥇🚨 Gold alert - IceCube observation of a high-energy neutrino candidate event at 2026/08/27 15:35:36 UTC. Find out more at: https://t.co/59SdSoYB13.

#IceCubeAlert

[武田裕煕| 2026口笛世界チャンピオン @yukithewhistler]

プロの口笛が話題ですが、頑張れば和音も出せることはあまり知られていない。

[Martin Bauer @martinmbauer]

Coleman is absolutely correct! Classical mechanics isn't less strange than QM

Instantaneous action at a distance, exact trajectories, infinite precision, perfect determinism etc. are all extraordinary claims, we simply grew up in the regime where they feel somewhat natural

[Alvaro Lozano-Robledo @mathandcobb]

I am teaching a class on elliptic curves this Fall, and I asked Claude to create an applet to draw points and add points, and compute and display point multiples. Let me know what you think!

https://t.co/AGks99ywo3