Moritz🇺🇦🇪🇺

teacher 👨🏼‍🏫
vegan🌱🐷

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump's face droops while he attends the 9/11 ceremony this morning at the Pentagon

(Finn Gomez/Getty)

[Mason @TruthWaffen1986]

You can’t judge people by their towel...

[Jeremy @remyFCK]

King Asamoah

[Sebastian Eberle @EberleSebastian]

„Wenn [Putin] nicht innerhalb von 24 Stunden aufhört, die Zivilbevölkerung in der Ukraine zu bombardieren, dann müssen aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland auch Taurus-Marschflugkörper geliefert werden …“

(@_FriedrichMerz aka @bundeskanzler)

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The research behind this is wild. A baby owl can sit and starve to death right next to a pile of food. Put a stuffed owl next to it, like in the video, and suddenly it'll eat. An Austrian zoologist, Konrad Lorenz, won the 1973 Nobel Prize for figuring out why.

He showed that young birds aren't born knowing who their mom is. In the first few days of life, their brain takes a kind of mental photograph. Whatever they see moving around gets locked in as "parent." After that, only that figure can switch on their feeding instinct. He called it imprinting.

Owls have it worse than most birds. They're born blind, naked, and totally helpless. A baby barn owl needs feeding every two to three hours for weeks. It can't even keep itself warm until its feathers come in. And right around the time its eyes finally open, between days 15 and 20, its brain locks onto whoever's been taking care of it. Miss that window with the wrong face nearby, and the owl is wired wrong for life.

Even the begging is automatic. In the 1950s, a Dutch scientist named Niko Tinbergen ran experiments with baby seagulls. He found the chicks were pecking at a specific shape. A long thin thing with a colored spot was enough to trigger the full begging routine, even when it was just a painted wooden stick. Take the stick away and the whole sequence shuts down. The chick can be staring straight at food, but if there's no parent-shaped trigger, its body doesn't know how to swallow.

There's a tiny patch in the bird brain that runs this whole show. It's the same part that learns and stores faces. Researchers at Cambridge and labs in Japan have mapped it down to the chemistry. They've even found a hormone that, if you inject it in the right spot, can re-open the imprinting window after it closes.

That dummy owl in the video carries 40 years of conservation work behind it. In 1982 there were only 22 California condors left in the entire world. The San Diego Zoo started feeding hatchlings with hand puppets shaped like adult condors, hiding the human handler behind a curtain. The condor population is now 607. The Bronx Zoo did the same thing last spring with a baby king vulture. The Barn Owl Trust in the UK feeds orphaned owls through owl puppets while wearing camouflage hoods, because an owl raised by humans can never be released back into the wild. It'll fly toward people, beg from them, and starve.

The dummy is the only signal the chick's brain still accepts as "mom." Evolution carved a very specific lock into its brain, and only the right shape fits.

[Kardashian de Software @oprimodev]

“Como as pistas de fórmula 1 são desenhadas”

[duck @ExtremeBlitz__]

Remote workers crawling to their laptop at 8:59 AM

[E L H O T Z O @elhotzo]

„schlimm was mit dem Wal passiert, kein Tier sollte so leiden müssen“

[le.hl @0xleegenz]

My manager watching me leave work at 5 PM when my shift ends at 5 PM

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

true detective s1 is endlessly rewatchable. existential dread, southern gothic vibes, and rust cole being a walking mood.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

This tissue box design made it look so elegant

https://t.co/dHXGiZFFg0

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

The hospital in Zaporizhia, Ukraine. Because of the russian terrorism.

[Klitschko @Klitschko]

The Olympic Committee (IOC) doesn’t want you to see this.
So, here it is: a helmet honoring Ukrainian Olympic athletes killed defending their country against the barbarian russian invasion that is now entering its fifth year.
The Olympic Games have always been Political Games.
In 2022 Olympics, China asked putin to wait until its Games were over before invading Ukraine. So let’s stop the hypocrisy.

@iocmedia @heraskevych

[Vladyslav Heraskevych OLY @heraskevych]

I want to thank everyone for all the support we’re receiving. There really is an incredible amount of it.

For me, the sacrifice of the people depicted on the helmet means more than any medal ever could - because they gave the most precious thing they had.
And simple respect toward them is exactly what I want to give.

[Charlie Hebdo @Charlie_Hebdo_]

ICE

[jovan @ehjovan]

white supremacist: the dumbest shit you’ve ever seen written and shared

elon musk: 🎯

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Leonardo da Vinci invented the self supporting bridge between 1485-1487

This is how it works

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

When a beaver fells a tree it pauses mid chew to listen for cues about its fall direction

[E L H O T Z O @elhotzo]

ich habe in einer aufwändigen Studie alle Länder markiert, in denen Klimaanlagen schwere Erkältungen verursachen