I want to take a moment with the limited space that I have here to describe myself to make a few very specific, informational remarks regarding my character. #1
Birds give up the complexity of song for volume in noisy places - so they sing louder but less interesting (to both humans & mates) songs in cities. When traffic noise in San Francisco fell due to COVID, birds began to sing more complex, quieter songs like they did 50 years ago!
Hydrangea flowers can be a good soil pH indicator.
It’s blooms are pink to blue with many shades of lavenders in between, Pink Hydrangeas indicate soil that is alkaline to neutral. Blue flowers indicate soil that is acidic, The reverse of litmus paper
@the_transit_guy It's an incredible achievement to get all of that information in that specific of a space, but yeah it's pretty inscrutable on its face
Soap molecules have a hydrophilic head (readily bonds with water) and a hydrophobic tail that shuns water but loves fats
in its attempt to avoid water, the tail wedges into the lipid (fat) membranes of pathogens and prises them apart like a crowbar 1/🧵
The most embarrassing thing about Wordle is that when I don't get it in three I am convinced I am about to learn a brand new word and then it's like...THOSE
@lynneguist As a Matt, I feel like (maybe just in the States?) we're really just saying "Ma" with a glottal stop at the end. Like completely cutting out the "Tthew" and then we just spell it "Matt"