1 O Finess & Windsor James feat.Laz Shabazz
2 Chubs & Machacha feat.Mickey Diamond
3 Prodigy & Alchemist
4 BVNGS
5 Armani Caesar
6 Bozack Morris feat.Raz Fresco
7 Lukah
8 Loveboat Luciano feat.Heem & DAPPA
9 VIC MENSA
10 King Kvmal & Sunez Allah
Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.
He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.
She said yes.
Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.
Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.
-Wilderness Whisper
@madd___slander For context, the beauty of Madlib; since he shared this personally.
He doesn’t give a rats ass if you like his music or not. He does what he likes. He’s not tryna be the goat. He truly creates music and carries on. He’s not online being corny. He does zero stupid interviews.