During the recent US government shutdown, a colony of elephant seals took over an unstaffed beach and car park in California; they have since given birth to 35 pups and show no sign of moving.
When a group of hermit crabs find a vacant shell, they form a queue from smallest to largest. When they find the crab that fits into the vacant shell, each subsequent crab moves up one size.
New research suggests that we can predict with 86% accuracy how a Supreme Court judge will vote by looking at which side they interrupt more. https://t.co/gfLjQRfKSi
The value of positive news is not just in reducing media-induced anxiety & depression (though that's a happy by-product) but in reducing fatalism, cynicism & radicalism. Human agency, deployed to enhance human well-being, can succeed. @angushervey https://t.co/ZQNrzqSEic
Thank you Former Minister Nhlanhla Nene for restoring the culture of admitting mistakes and falling on your own sword thus lessening the burden of exacting accountability on your principal and others. Blessings and wisdom on your next chapter
I'm personally sad to see Nhlanhla Nene go. Despite his lie on the Gupta visits, he was a capable minister of integrity and wisdom. We all owe him for blocking the Russian nuke deal that cost him his job the first time round.
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The software to create the black hole in the movie 'Interstellar' is a full implementation of Einstein's equations in 40,000 lines of C++, and rendered thousands of 23-megapixel IMAX frames on a 32,000-core render farm at about 20 core-hours per frame https://t.co/6bt87bIR9l