@airindia The people in the plane makes it so much better to fly. Rest can be upgraded, modified but the core of hospitality and comfort coming from the people delivering the experience through their service is most important.
A creature smaller than your fingernail just solved the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.
This male peacock spider weighs less than a grain of rice. His brain contains roughly 100,000 neurons.
For comparison, a honeybee has a million. Yet this tiny spider executes a courtship routine so intricate that human choreographers study his movements.
He raises his abdomen like a neon billboard, revealing patterns that shift from electric blue to golden yellow. His front legs wave in perfect synchronization while his third pair of legs vibrate at frequencies that create substrate tremors only the female can detect. The entire sequence lasts exactly 47 minutes and involves over 300 distinct movements performed in precise order.
Get one step wrong and she eats him alive.
Sexual selection created the cruelest performance review in nature. The female peacock spider doesn't just judge his dance. She measures his genetic fitness, his neurological precision, and his ability to execute complex motor functions under lethal pressure. Every movement broadcasts information about his DNA quality, his developmental stability, and his cognitive processing speed.
What breaks your brain is the computational load. This spider must simultaneously control eight legs in different patterns, monitor her behavioral cues, adjust his display intensity in real time, and maintain perfect rhythm across nearly an hour of continuous performance. His nervous system is processing sensory input, motor output, and decision trees at a speed that would challenge supercomputers.
Evolution built a microscopic performer capable of calculations that required millions of years to perfect, all contained in a brain you could barely see without magnification.
The universe keeps hiding its most sophisticated engineering in the smallest packages.
@CrazyVibes_1 I know exactly what you mean. I had a black pair of Boxadors - Charles and Chelsea, who stayed together till their last day. And within 6 months of losing her brother, the sister also passed away. Inseparable till the endโฆ.
@jonatanpallesen@anth40477@BillAckman Bad logic. If Data Colada is right in not contacting Gino (their usual practice) for clarification, then how is Gino wrong in suing them for defamation. Being volunteering researchers isnโt an excuse to presume someone guilty (especially any reputed person) and lampoon her.
@BillAckman You have clearly espoused why supporting Prof Gino is so important for Harvard itself and why it matters for every individual who gets wronged by their own organisation but doesnโt have the resources to fight the giant. Thanks for your clear support @BillAckman on this matter.
@Arrogance_0024 Replace the country France ๐ซ๐ท with India ๐ฎ๐ณ and ENA with LBS, we have exactly the same results. Only the Indian system was inherited from the British where the bureaucracy was taught to mistrust the common Indians, and that practice continues.