Whiskers don't make sense on a creature that doesn't walk on all 4 anyway. They are only useful if they have a chance to contact something in front of you before the rest of your body.
That's a common way of thinking in people with little to no ethics. They think everyone else is the same, and thus if you dig you're surely going to find something.
Fat is usually stored in the body in the form of triglycerids. When fat is used, it's usually not turned into glucose, but rather into fatty acids, that are then released in the blood and reach the cells that need extra energy, where they are used by the mitochondria to power said cells. The signaling that triggers this is in fact done by a bunch of hormones that do indeed circulate in the blood to reach the cells specialized in storing fat, called adipocytes.
Depending of what triggers the transformation of fat into fatty acids( a process called lipolysis), those hormones could be insulin, epinephrin, growth hormone, etc.
If you look at who is quoted in the article doing the condemning, it's pretty much all repented trumpets or never-trumpers, who are a vanishing minority in the Republican party. I don't think this will have any negative impact on the MAGA Republicans' view of Noem.
You could extend that remark to any clothes prominently displaying pretty much any brand as far as I'm concerned.
You're paying extra for the privilege of being a walking advertisement.
"Once I put this salve on a small wound, and a couple of weeks later it was healed, which proves it's basically a panacea that probably also cures cancer."
So they made his birthplace a police station, which I guess is not the worse idea if you don't want to take it down. But as long as it's there, you know it's going to be used as a symbol and a place of remembrance for the idiots who are nostalgic of the good ol' fascist times.
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I think it has to do with atmospheric diffusion of the sunlight. Even if the photons coming straight down at you are blocked by the moon, a lot of them bounce around in the atmosphere and end up reaching your eyes. Kinda like when it's not complete darkness at sunset even after the sun has gone over the horizon. Also explains why the sky is blue, since "blue photons" are better at bouncing around on the atmosphere molecules.
See : diffuse sky radiation
Quoting form the Wikipedia article: Approximately 23% of direct incident radiation of total sunlight is removed from the direct solar beam by scattering into the atmosphere; of this amount (of incident radiation) about two-thirds ultimately reaches the earth as photon diffused skylight radiation.
Edit : probably mostly has to do with your eyes adapting to the luminosity and non linearity of light intensity perception by our eyes. See posts below about Weber-Fechner law of perception.
Edit Edit : This is an intersting read. The TLDR is it mostly has to do with our eyes slowly adapting to the amount of light they receive, and during totality, light bouncing from beyond the umbra comes into play.
...following "a complaint made by a female member of the production crew after an incident following his performance in Thursday night’s Semi Final."