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- So Which Zebra Is Looking At The Camera?
- All The World’s Species In One List
- How Do Small Farms Cope During The Quarantine?
- If a Centaur and a Gorgon Had a Child
- Modern Henna Designs by Dr. Azra
- What’s With Humpback Whales?
- The First American Restaurants’ Culinary Concoctions
- The Best of Murder Mittens
- What Is Intelligence? Where Does it Begin?
- Look Out Someone Else's Window
- How to Safely Cross a Piranha Infested River
| So Which Zebra Is Looking At The Camera? Posted: 14 Jul 2020 04:03 AM PDT
This photograph taken by Sarosh Lodhi has bewildered a lot of people on the Internet after it was shared. Two zebras are in the photograph, but can you tell which one is facing the camera? I couldn't. Lodhi took the photograph in the Maasai Mara national game reserve, one of the most famous and important conservation and wilderness areas in all of Africa. image via BoredPanda  |
| All The World’s Species In One List Posted: 13 Jul 2020 11:01 PM PDT
It's the pokedex! Scientists are now planning how to put together a list of all the creatures on Earth. This project seems simple at a glance, but some lists may not cover some species, while some may not follow some principles set by scientists. Currently, there is no agreed-upon list of species available, as ScienceAlert details: "Listing all species may sound routine, but is a difficult and complex task," says environmental scientist Stephen Garnett from Charles Darwin University in Australia. "Currently no single, agreed list of species is available." One factor in the researchers' favour is that the world is connected like never before (as you might have noticed if you've had to take part in more video group calls than normal in recent weeks). Information can be easily shared and assessed across countries and continents in an instant. image via ScienceAlert |
| How Do Small Farms Cope During The Quarantine? Posted: 13 Jul 2020 11:00 PM PDT
The current pandemic has brought a lot of businesses to a big halt. Some are close to shutting down, while some are still trying to adapt to the current situation. Some small farms send out their products through a new mobile market and are hosting drive-in tours around their farms: Mooney began reaching out to other small farmers and food producers in the area, seeing whether they'd like to be a part of the orchard's new Apple Barn Mobile Market, which pulls together products from various local farms and delivers them directly to customers. "In the beginning we had one person selling their farm's sausage, another selling eggs, and a woman who provided us with beautiful microgreens that she usually sold to restaurants," says Mooney. The Apple Barn Mobile Market has since grown to a few-dozen products, including fresh goat cheese from nearby Goat Lady Dairy, tomatoes from Twin Oaks Produce, and Liberty Kettle Corn from local purveyor Becky Suphin, who says her sales are up 50 percent from what they would be during the pandemic without the market. It's just one of the innovative ways that Mooney has reworked her property's offerings in the age of COVID-19—others include a socially distant farmers' market, pick-your-own fruit that allows adequate space between participants and a reservation-only "behind-the-scenes" farm tour. In fact, the Visit NC Farms app, which officially launched in January 2020, had 4,630 downloads in May, up from 726 downloads in March. But as farmers adjust to new COVID-19 rules and restrictions, they're having to find new and innovative ways to attract visitors, whether it's curbside produce pickup, socially-distanced farm stays or even a farm experience drive-through, allowing families to view the production of seasonally changing crops and visit with farm animals—all from the safety of their vehicle. image via The Smithsonian Magazine |
| If a Centaur and a Gorgon Had a Child Posted: 13 Jul 2020 11:00 PM PDT He might look something like this, according to New Yorker cartoonist Madeline Horwath. A cute little fella and mostly human. Not to be specist or anything. Some of my best friends are humans. Content warning about Horwath's main Instagram page: porn. -via Super Punch |
| Modern Henna Designs by Dr. Azra Posted: 13 Jul 2020 11:00 PM PDT While browsing Instagram, I was struck by the henna designs of dr.azra. Her amazing work makes use of and then breaks through traditional forms. Waves and forms sweep over and through her hands. |
| Posted: 13 Jul 2020 10:57 PM PDT
Humpback whales are a fascinating species. These winged whales are massive and majestic, but much of their lives, mannerisms, and habits are a mystery. Hakai Magazine takes a ride with humpback researcher Jackie Hildering to dive deeper on these majestic animals: There it is. Or he, or she; gender indeterminate. Hildering, a humpback whale researcher, angles the boat toward the humpback and throttles the engine way back. She's just close enough to try—with a telephoto lens—to identify this individual by its unique tail flukes. Humpbacks are fairly slow swimmers, but this one's moving quickly enough to make her job hard. A mobbing is going down. A half-dozen or so Pacific white-sided dolphins are swarming the whale Hildering will later identify from photographs as an adult named Squall. "Dolphins can be mystical and complete jerks—both things are true," says Hildering, cofounder and director of education and communication at the Marine Education and Research Society (MERS), a Port McNeill–based nonprofit studying humpback and minke whales. These dolphins are potentially "learning by provocation," as Hildering puts it. They're clearly having a ball. Not so the humpback. This "most gamesome and light-hearted of all the whales," as Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick, described the humpback, must be feeling mighty put upon. The whale flexes its body, trying to shake off the harassers, and rolls, exposing one of those great pectoral fins, which can be as long as one-third of its body length, and which gives the humpback its scientific genus, Megaptera, or "large-winged." Squall slaps it down, apparently in self-defense, like a sweet-natured grandmother whacking a mugger with her umbrella. image via Hakai Magazine |
| The First American Restaurants’ Culinary Concoctions Posted: 13 Jul 2020 09:42 PM PDT
While travelers have always been able to get a meal at a pub or an inn in America -as soon as there were pubs and inns- the fine dining restaurant only came into fashion in the 1830s, soon after the French began such businesses. Historian Paul Freedman has been searching and cataloguing the menus of early American restaurants, between 1838 and 1865, to see what kind of food they were serving.
These restaurants served things like frogs (six different ways), tripe, lamb testicles, and many varieties of macaroni and cheese. Read more about early American restaurant dining at Jstor Daily. -via Damn Interesting |
| Posted: 13 Jul 2020 09:42 PM PDT
We love cats, but we must remember they are pointy on five ends. The term "murder mittens" refers to a cat's claws, and they can be as cute as they are dangerous. A subreddit collects images of murder mittens, and Bored Panda has a ranked gallery of 40 of them. It's rather heavy on black kittens, who are apparently quite proud of their teeny murder mittens. |
| What Is Intelligence? Where Does it Begin? Posted: 13 Jul 2020 09:18 PM PDT
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| Look Out Someone Else's Window Posted: 13 Jul 2020 09:18 PM PDT
You probably enjoy looking out your window to see the world, but you've seen it a lot from the same viewpoint. Wouldn't it be great to see what someone else sees through their window? Window Swap lets you do just that. It's a never-ending gallery of submitted window views from all over the world. Some are static, others are videos of varying lengths -and the ambient sound is a bonus! Text at the top will tell you whose window it is, and where. You'll see mountains, cityscapes, pastures, industrial yards, gardens, crowds, rooftops, traffic, porches, patios, cats, and a lot of houseplants. Its like traveling the world as you sit in your home! Window Swap is also asking for submissions, so you can share your view with the world. -via Metafilter |
| How to Safely Cross a Piranha Infested River Posted: 13 Jul 2020 09:17 PM PDT
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