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  • I wonder how come, since C4 plants, such as corn, have high water-use efficiency

  • I love how length and time are unfathomably small to even conceptualize, then energy is just like car

  • Reminds me of this old 4chan greentext

  • Invoking snail biology is still a non-sequitur, regardless of the actual truth value of the initial statement

  • "sexual identities" lmao way to anthropomorphize freaking mushrooms 🤣

    They're called mating types and are not at all comparable to the aforementioned, entirely human, concept

  • Ceci n'est pas une figue.

  • I guess "microtubules create consciousness trough quantum gravity" is the Nobel loreate version of dementia

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world

    TIL domesticated pigeons (Columba livia domestica) are descendants of the rock dove (Columba livia)

  • Lmaooo wasn't me, or rather, seems to have been automatic

    I've now removed the flag

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world

    TIL about Swardspeak, the secret gay language used in the Philippines

  • I never actually read it as a dig at "elderly" scientists but I think you're right haha

    Tbf I think it's supposed to be understood more conceptually as seeing how many things we take for granted as being outside the realms of possibility have just not yet been tackled the right way.

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world

    TIL about Clarke's three laws, the most famous of which is the third: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

    WWYD

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  • No worries Yeah, sounded like a mixture of abstruse and obtuse 😂

  • WWYD

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  • *abstruse

  • They're using walking (region alpha) vs biking (region beta) region as an analogy: "paradoxically" you'll reach some further distances earlier, based on your choice of mode of transport. Which wouldn't work in my case cause I'll take the bike to the grocery store down the street. At any rate, your "choice" of defense mechanism influences your rate of recovery, is what they're trying to say

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world

    TIL about the region-beta paradox, the psychological phenomenon that people can sometimes recover more quickly from more distressing experiences than from less distressing ones

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    TIL about silbo gomero, the "Gomeran whistle" historically used on the Canarian island of Gomera to communicate over large distances

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    TIL about the five modes of snake movement: concertina, serpentine, sidewinding, rectilinear and slide-pushing

  • Damn, good point. Couldn't come up with a counter-example so just copy/pasted off of Wikipedia verbatim lmao Look out for tomorrow's TIL when I look up what that type of locomotion is called lol

    Actually, I'm really at a loss at what to call this paraphyletic group; tetrapods come to mind but they technically still include snakes...

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world

    TIL about the three types of locomotion in terrestial vertebrates: plantigrade, digitigrade and unguligrade

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    TIL the Scottish term for counter-clockwise is widdershins

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    TIL that Alabama has by far the highest amount of death row inmates by capita of any US state

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    TIL about Planet Nine, a hypothetical ninth planet in the outer region of the Solar System.

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    TIL about Silphium, aka laser, a plant that was used as a panacea in antiquity and the first species in recorded history to go extinct

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    TIL that "G.I." originally referred to galvanized iron

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    TIL that due to a genetic bottle neck, 10% of the population of the pacific atoll of Pingelap has achromatopsia, i.e. only sees in black&white

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    TIL that the forward part of a ship, the forecastle, is pronounced (and sometimes written as) "fo'c'sle"