Kaj Snow

I ❤ weird rocks. he/him

[Kaj Snow @klksnow]

@MTB_Archaeology Interesting. Thank you!

[Kaj Snow @klksnow]

@MTB_Archaeology Another ?. The moon mammoth from NW PA is in that paper. When it was found, they sent it to D. Fisher who claimed there were tool marks on the bones. But I can't find any published research on it. Did that turn out to be not true?

[Kaj Snow @klksnow]

@MTB_Archaeology Ah, okay. Thanks.

[Chris Thorogood @thorogoodchris1]

These 3 pitcher plants grow where insects are scarce & so evolved 'toilets' for shrews, which excrete in the pitchers, fertilising the plant

[manvir singh @mnvrsngh]

Wildest discovery I’ve come across in a long time: The Vesuvius eruption (79 AD) produced such intense heat that it turned brains into glass (left). This image from a scanning electron microscope (right) shows neurons preserved in the glass.

[Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru]

Impressive. The collapse of a huge glacier in Kyrgyzstan.

The author of the video managed to hide behind a large stone and survived.

[Emma Finestone @finestone_emma]

Today’s “fossil find” needs a whole thread… because it’s a radioactive giant monkey. (no seriously). Here’s the story of a Theropithecus oswaldi from the early Pleistocene

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[Kory Evans Ph.D. @Sternarchella]

This is the most intense death roll that I’ve ever seen

[Annie? Rauwerda? @anniierau]

The Oakland Public Library scans the paper scraps people leave in library books and I'm obsessed with them. thread of some of my favorites!

[Kai Noeske @kainoeske.bsky.social🥼🔭🚀🛰️🪐🇪🇺 @kainoeske]

#Webb tests its *guiding sensors* ...
... and creates the deepest Near-Infrared image of the sky yet!!!

Look at these galaxies. The light from the faintest ones traveled for 12-13 Billion years to reach us.
We're at the beginning of a new era.
https://t.co/H3l3DL2OMH #JWST

[Kaj Snow @klksnow]

@Muay_Khaoboy @TimScharks @LucasOfSunshine Are you coming from the hard sciences? An r^2 of 0.11 is pretty high in demographic studies (well, sometimes). The paper reports a p value of p<0.0001

[Kaj Snow @klksnow]

@olson8401 @ZachWeiner Dang, you're right. If the second player is trying to lose, the first player can always force a tie by playing in the center square first.

[Kaj Snow @klksnow]

@olson8401 @ZachWeiner I'm convinced that you can't always force a tie, but—if you're the second player—you can always force a loss *or* a tie (play it out!). That makes starting second much more advantageous.

[Kaj Snow @klksnow]

@atinyworldorg Wow what a find!

[Weird Animals @Weird_AnimaIs]

Planthopper nymphs have wax extruding from their behinds, used as a parachute to descend slower from leaves.

(Photo Hock Guek)

[Anton Sorokin @Anuranton]

Cool plant alert!! This is goldenthread (Cuscuta pacifica), a parasitic plant with no chlorophyll thats restricted to salt marsh habitat along the Pacific in N. America. I thought it was washed up twine/trash from the bay when I 1st saw it!

[Kaj Snow @klksnow]

@GunPatent @palladiummag @ginevlily 800 on the SAT is a pretty low score, no? Or was that the point?

[Kaj Snow @klksnow]

@puzzlereric Reading this tweet "haha he didn't know it meant opinion." oops