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- Comment on What goes here? 4 days ago:
So having a foot doesn’t count as having a leg also?
- Comment on The Bog 1 week ago:
Wolf spiders are harmless, so there is hardly any incentive to invest in another solution I’d guess…
I wish they weren’t so shy though, it’s really hard to take good photos of them because they are so fast.
- Comment on Average plant behavior 1 week ago:
It’s because of domestication and growing plants outside of their natural habitat that they get sensitive. Also, apparently some sensitivity is by design:
Modern roses emerged in 1867 with the development of the first hybrid tea, according to the American Rose Society. These varieties tend to have a reputation for being fussy, requiring constant attention.
“The conception is that they’re not tough, that they require spraying, that you have to have the perfect culture. And a lot of that has been breeding; to breed these perfect flowers, but they bred out characteristics that made the rose easy to grow in our backyards,”
(From the OP’s article)
- Comment on Molluscs of the Multiverse: molluscan diversity in Magic: The Gathering 1 week ago:
I wish there was a queer MTG group in my city where I could play in. I tried playing with some straight cis dudes once and it was just such a strange experience…
- Comment on here there be lions 1 week ago:
Actually that’s not true, male lions are usually hunting alone and in dense vegetation. Newer studies show that male lions actually hunt as much prey as female lions! It’s just harder for us to track that.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 2 weeks ago:
Same in Germany. Last year I asked some people who got vaccinated if they think I also should get another shot and all of them told me that I’m not in a vulnerable group (or a caretaker) so I shouldn’t bother. So we basically repeat what we know from the normal flu (influenza) and just vaccinate vulnerable people. I’m not sure if this is the best way to do it, because I think many people die each year of the flu as well. However, death statistics are hard and I couldn’t find any reliable data on this either.
- Comment on #FGLAE 2 weeks ago:
I would lean more towards focus stacking. If you see for example @alexis_orion’s photos or videos on youtube, you can get even better shots in macro-photography (even handheld!).
- Comment on REDRUM 2 weeks ago:
Wow, great article!!
- Comment on Zotero is still better. 3 weeks ago:
Ah thanks, I needed this to get what the symbols are! :)
- Comment on 🏃♀️ 🏃♀️ 🏃♀️ 3 weeks ago:
Well, many people are busy, but yeah it should usually work. ResearchGate makes this even easier, because you can directly see who is requesting a paper and sometimes as an author you’ve got the paywalled paper already uploaded in researchgate.
- Comment on Mosquito Sprites 3 weeks ago:
If you read the actual paper, you can see that it is indeed a serious study where they try to understand how mosquito feeding and reproductive behavior works.
- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 4 weeks ago:
Wait till it flowers! It has a really nice inflorescence, although I think other Lactuca species are more beautiful overall :)
- Comment on China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network 4 weeks ago:
I doubt it would be hard to actually have better train infrastructure in Europe (and some countries do). For example, as a German, my perspective on this is that our government just doesn’t care to invest in most infrastructure because it isn’t seen as prestigious enough. The only projects that do get build are some shiny new additions that no one needs, like a new train station in Stuttgart that has been in planning for over 3 decades, will cost many billions and has seen huge protests against it from the start till today. But any project that is just basic maintenance, be it for cars or trains, just gets ignored and postponed. The German Autobahn is just as defunct and on the brink of collapse in many parts of Germany as its train network. And our infrastructure ministers have been corrupt and utterly incompetent for many decades now.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 4 weeks ago:
Oof, this was extremely painful to watch. I hadn’t seen this actor actually acting in anything before and didn’t realize how bad he was…
- Comment on I hope you like TICKS 4 weeks ago:
Well, it’s both though. Sone days it is really rough to keep working just because you can’t take all the abuse by the all insects anymore. And some days you’re just in a state of bliss because you spend so much time in nature and feel connected to it. And even more days you realize how fucking repetitive field work really is and that you need to do the exact same thing for the next weeks/months over and over again…
- Comment on I should call her. 4 weeks ago:
Yes! When I did electron microscopy, we had to cover the fix the samples and cover them with a very thin gold layer beforehand.
- Comment on born 2 l8 4 weeks ago:
Well, I’m crocheting one so jokes on you :)
- Comment on Expert here. 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t it
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- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 5 weeks ago:
It is different if it is a passive or active process though. The initial question is, in how far lemons benefit from this evolved trait. The benefits might be very different between passive or active evolution here. If it were passive, lemon plants might benefit by avoiding some disadvantageous animal species feeding on them. As it is active though, the benefit is that they are grown more by humans. The feedback loop between evolution and trait selection is very different if it is active or passive I’d say.
- Comment on Magic Rocks 5 weeks ago:
When I started paying closer attention to all the small insects around me, I felt like I was in an alien world. There are so many otherworldly and bizarre looking creatures just outside your door, you just have to get used to looking for them :)
- Comment on the living dead 1 month ago:
Hm no, the problem is much more at the roots of science than you think. Most of biology is based on humans’ biased assumptions and expectations. For example, only when queer theory was developed did biologists really grasp how much deviant the animal kingdom in regards to sex, gender and sexuality actually is.
Just think how many layers deep this is: humans exist -> develop social structures -> develop social constructs that feel essential -> try to describe their own biology through the lense of all the prior layers -> develop awareness about some social constructs -> revisit their own biology but still with a lot of biases
What you express by saying that it isn’t possible anymore to just speak about biology is imo rather an expression of denying certain advancements we’ve made. Our ideas and models of biology a few decades ago may have been simpler, but not more true. We’ve just realized to some extend how complex biology is and how our prior models have made many poor assumptions.
EO Wilson is having his own concepts and biases of human societies and projects them onto this pseudoscientific narrative. He is obviously not aware of his own position in society and how it shapes his assumptions.
- Comment on you and me baby ain't nothing but mammals 1 month ago:
Surprisingly short list regarding the millions of described species!
- Comment on Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign 1 month ago:
Apple’s whole business model is creating hype around their products. And if this hype is preemptively damaged by leaking secrets that would otherwise feed the hype, they clearly are negatively affected by this. I don’t say any of this is good, that’s just their business model. And capitalism of course…
Your example wouldn’t really apply here either, because you aren’t a world famous company billions of people know.
- Comment on poaceae 1 month ago:
What kind of fruit a plant develops is something entirely different to what a grass is though. And these are all taxonomically different groups (palms, bananas and grasses).
- Comment on poaceae 1 month ago:
At least both Musaceae (Bananas) and Poaceae (Grasses) are both monocots. But that’s where their taxonomic proximity ends. They are not even in the same order (Zingiberales vs Poales)…
- Comment on Thoughts?? 1 month ago:
Came here to say this :)
- Comment on Bisexual Flowers 2 months ago:
Yes, bisexual means something else in both contexts…
- Comment on EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING 2 months ago:
Well, if it works for you, great. But that doesn’t mean that it will work for anyone else.
- Comment on >:( 2 months ago:
OK got It, so mostly oregano-ish with notes of thyme :)
- Comment on >:( 2 months ago:
Looked it up because I hadn’t heard of it. Wikipedia say the following:
Common names in English include Indian borage, country borage, French thyme, Indian mint, Mexican mint, Cuban oregano, broad leaf thyme, soup mint, Spanish thyme.
What? So does it taste like a mix of borage, thyme, mint and oregano?? Sure, they are all Lamiaceae (except for borage), but they have wildly different aromas!