The Los Angeles Zoo hatches its first-ever perentie lizards, one of the largest lizard species in the world.
From @AssociatedPress: "Perentie lizards, or Varanus giganteus, are native to Australia and one of the world’s largest lizards, dwarfed only by the Komodo dragon and a few others."
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LA Zoo hatches first-ever perentie lizards, one of largest lizard species in the world
Two new perentie lizards have hatched at the Los Angeles Zoo, the first of their species to be bred there. According to zoo officials Thursday, the lizards are doing well, eating, and being closely observed by staff.AP News
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A 137-year-old newspaper faced extinction. Readers said: ‘We’ll pay more.’
The Plainsman Herald was set to cease publication. Then readers rallied around the southeastern Colorado paper, keeping it afloat for at least another year.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024…
This Pacific nation was hit by a massive earthquake. Is climate change increasing seismic activity?
https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/12/20/this-pacific-nation-was-hit-by-a-massive-earthquake-is-climate-change-increasing-seismic-a?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Google Fiber’s internet plans are getting simpler
The company has rolled out new Core 1 Gig, Home 3 Gig, and Edge 8 Gig plans in two cities.
Google Fiber’s internet plans are getting simpler
Google has simplified its internet plans in Nashville, Tennessee and Huntsville, Alabama, as it now offers Core 1 Gig, Home 3 Gig, and Edge 8 Gig options.Emma Roth (The Verge)
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World's oldest mammalian ancestor discovered in Mallorca
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World's oldest mammalian ancestor discovered in Mallorca
An international research team led by the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) and the Museu Balear de Ciències Naturals (MUCBO | MBCN) have described a fossil animal that lived between 270 and 280 million years ago in present-day …Miquel Crusafont Catalan Institute of Paleontology (Phys.org)
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On tap for the holidays: A blend of multicultural drink traditions and fond memories
For this year's All Things Considered holiday cocktail interview, we visited Providencia in Washington, D.C., a bar that brings its owners' personal stories to life.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Fun evolves with time, from cavemen laughs to Christmas cheer. What does fun mean to you today?
#FunThroughTheAges #Happiness #JoyfulMoments #ChristmasSpirit #CavemenToNow #HolidayCheer
#MeaningOfFun #PositiveVibes #FamilyTime #SimpleJoys #FestiveSeason
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What Makes You Happy? Discovering Modern Fun - JB
From cavemen tripping over rocks to us scrolling at 2 am, fun has evolved! Whether you're parkour-ing or stamp-collecting, remember: true fun is just happiness with a side of chaos.JB
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Party City files for bankruptcy and plans to shutter nationwide
Party City was once unmatched in its vast selection of affordable celebration goods. But over the years, competition stacked up at Walmart, Target, Spirit Halloween, and especially Amazon.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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I love this site. They also have fascinating article.s This is great for those of us who love the Regency, as well as those who wear proper period clothing. This partly explains how Brummell's neckcloths were so clean! His were either superfine cambric or fine Irish muslin (he had both). To my blind friends, sometimes, the printed s looked like f during that time, hence the muflin, foap, etc.
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#Brummell #clothing #dandyism #fashion #neckcloths #muslin #Regency #washing
I solved the filtering problem I wrote about yesterday by changing the channel and notifications settings in Friendica. I explained more n a reply to said post. Now, my timeline is filled with all sorts of lovely things. Since that post was so negative, I would like to thank those who write such wonderful and positive things. You are why I am remaining in the Fediverse. Your posts make me smile and/or think, and now I will be seeing more of them!
#friends #Friendica #posting #timeline #Tweesecake #TweeseCake
"It was only later that Benoit, an artist and documentary filmmaker, learned that the wolves she saw weren't grey wolves but rather rare eastern wolves." Global News: Conservationists eager to see plan to save rare eastern wolf found in Quebec, Ontario globalnews.ca/news/1091640... #conservation 🌎
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Conservationists eager to see plan to save rare eastern wolf found in Quebec, Ontario
Gisèle Benoit still gets goosebumps when she remembers the first time she saw a family of eastern wolves emerge from the forests of the Mauricie National Park.The Canadian Press (Global News)
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Senators blast carmakers over right-to-repair opposition
OEMs also called out for selling data they collect on drivers.
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hard not to be sarcastic about how little and late this all is but I guess I'm glad there's at least some grains of brain in the USA government left
Intel WildCat Lake processor details leaked, pointing to an upcoming budget processor for low-power devices, possibly set to replace Alder Lake-N with a new 6-core chip combining 2 P-cores and 4 LPE-cores. buff.ly/4gIlDQa #chips #leaks #IntelWildcatLake #WildcatLake
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FDA approves weight loss drug Zepbound to treat obstructive sleep apnea
The FDA said studies have shown that by aiding weight loss, Zepbound improves sleep apnea symptoms in some patients.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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In October 2023, Mongabay traveled to Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park.
While there, we heard allegations that Uganda Wildlife Authority rangers have carried out extrajudicial killings of suspected bushmeat poachers inside the park.
Two weeks before our visit, a man was shot to death inside the park; his relatives and local officials alleged he was killed by wildlife rangers while attempting to surrender.
By Ashoka Mukpo
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#Environment #News #Conservation
‘Killed while poaching’: When wildlife enforcement blurs into violence
KITABU, Uganda — It’s mid-afternoon in Kitabu, a small town nestled in the hills of western Uganda at the foot of the Rwenzori mountains. Neatly manicured plots of beans and cassava line the road that leads toward it.Terna Gyuse (Conservation news)
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May your festive season brim with Saturnalian delights and a good dose of fun and games. Let’s hope it doesn’t all take a turn like this riot in the amphitheatre at Pompeii which led to the closure of the amphitheatre in 59 CE!
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Big dreams: He's the founder of a leading African photobook library
Paul Ninson had an old-school, newfangled dream: a modern library devoted to photobooks showing life on the continent. He maxed out his credit cards, injured his back — and made it happen.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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#QuizOfTheDay: #Laughing #Gas (or happy gas) is a colorless, non-flammable gas.
Laughing gas is used in medicine, especially in dentistry and surgery, for its pain-reducing and anesthetic effects.
Which chemical compound is known as "Laughing gas"?
A. Nitrous oxide
B. Hydrogen sulfide
C. Trichloromethane
D. Hydrogen peroxide
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What It's Like to Run the Only Grocery Store in a Remote Mountain Town in Colorado laughingsquid.com/silverton-gr…
What It's Like to Run the Only Grocery Store in a Remote Mountain Town in Colorado
Rocky Mountain PBS visited Darlene and Mark Watson of Silverton Grocery to learn what it's like to run the only grocery store in town.Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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Google and OpenAI blitz December with so many AI releases, it’s hard to keep up
Potentially groundbreaking AI releases have been coming in fast, sending experts' heads spinning.
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The AI war between Google and OpenAI has never been more heated
Potentially groundbreaking AI releases have been coming in fast, sending experts’ heads spinning.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
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The FDA restricts a psychoactive mushroom used in some edibles
The Food and Drug Administration has told food manufacturers the psychoactive mushroom Amanita muscaria isn't authorized for food, including edibles, because it doesn't meet safety standards.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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A pair of satellites will create artificial solar eclipses to study the sun
Astronomers hope the Proba-3 mission will help them get a better view of the corona, the sun's outer atmosphere, which is even hotter than the sun's surface.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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A Sombrero ground lizard. The species is endemic to Sombrero island, a tiny isle (just over a mile long) near Anguilla in the Caribbean. Its population has increased from fewer than 100 individuals in 2018 to more than 1,600 today, a new survey has revealed, thanks to conservation efforts.
Photograph: Farah Mukhida/Anguilla National Trust
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VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network
Big Mama VPN tied to network which offers access to residential IP addresses.
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Only 4000 connections for sale in the U.S., and 21000 connections in Saudi Arabia.
This seems to be a very niche usage.
It seems the point of the story is to use outliers (people with proxy connections using free VPN) to scare people away from using *all* free VPN's, without explaining how one knows that *paid* VPN's don't do the same thing.
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A Sassy Corgi Husky Mix With a Napoleon Complex
A sassy mixed-breed dog named Luna has the face, coat, and voice of a husky with the little legs and stubborn intelligence of a corgi.Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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While users (at least on friendica.world) don't have advanced filtering options, I was able to solve myproblem. I went back to the Friendica site, and then to contacts. I clicked on each one, and in most cases, I changed the channel setting so that I would see all posts. for the ones that I really don't want to miss anything from, I changed the notification so that will be notified for each post the contact makes. On TweeseCake, this gives me three options. I could either read the Home timeline as always, switch to notifications, or switch to Mentions. I don't know why new posts are appearing in Mentions without anyone tagging me, but ah well. The last wo options will focus on the contacts whose posts I want to see the most. In all cases, but especially the second and third, I have eliminated the types of posts I don't wish to see from anyone. It took a long time, but my timeline is now clean and pleasant.
#Friendica #friends #posting #timeline #Tweesecake #TweeseCake
I hope you find a congenial community here! For the most part it’s a lovely place. I guess you’ve learned the follow-hashtags trick? [#]mosstodon is worth a peek, as is [#]bloomscrolling
Cheers—
Do you use the "Please Caption" bot to remind you to add descriptions? A couple of updates about this:
1) It has just changed servers, its new address is:
➡️ @PleaseCaptionBot
If your follow hasn't transferred automatically, follow it at the new address.
2) There was a problem transferring the bot's follows list. Even if you're following it at the new address, you should unfollow it and re-follow it in order to trigger the bot's follow back. Follow backs are needed for reminders to work.
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Yes, #NapoleonBonaparte had a #Math #Theorem! : Medium
Fat #Cells have a ‘#Memory’ of #Obesity — hinting at why it’s hard to keep weight off : Nature
#Historians Say They’ve Solved the #Mystery of a Curious 100-Year-Old #Contraption Discovered in Storage : Misc
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
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#Napoleon's #Theorem is a fascinating result in #Geometry that states - If #Equilateral #Triangles are constructed on each side of any triangle (either all outwards or all inwards), the centers of those equilateral triangles themselves form an equilateral triangle.
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Napoleon's Theorem
Napoleon's theorem is a fascinating result in geometry that states - If equilateral triangles are constructed on each side of any triangle (either all outwards or all inwards), the centers of those equilateral triangles themselves form an equilateral…Knowledge Zone
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“Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#quote #mindfulness #thisday #vongoethe
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#Environmentalism #Wildlife #EndangeredSpecies #Donations Save our forests from total destruction
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Save our forests from total destruction
We’re in the fight of our lives to save the planet.Corporate giants are burning, slashing, and poisoning precious forests from Brazil to Indonesia, for coffee, cocoa, palm oil and more.We HAVE to stopEkō
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#NewSpecies!
New carnivorous snail from #laos just bit us:
Sinoennea houaphanica
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/F1237A1…
Publication: doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.…
#tandfonline #SinoenneaHouaphanica
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #malacology #snails #carnivore #carnivoroussnails
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#NewSpecies!
New isopod from #brazil just came in:
Xangoniscus antiquus
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/1457552…
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.50.13…
#subtbiol #XangoniscusAntiquus
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arthropods #crustacea #isopods
Describing to preserve – three new species of Xangoniscus (Oniscidea, Styloniscidae) of unprotected caves in dry areas from Bahia state, northeastern Brazil
Three new troglobitic amphibious species of Xangoniscus (Styloniscidae) have been described from limestone caves of the Bambui Group semiarid ecosystems (Chacoan subregion) in the state of Bahia: Xangoniscus antiquus sp. nov., X. chaimowiczi sp. nov.Carlos Mario López-Orozco (Pensoft Publishers)
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#NewSpecies!
New freshwater goby from #vietnam just swam in:
Rhinogobius phuocbinhensis
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Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5550.…
#Zootaxa #RhinogobiusPhuocbinhensis
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fish #TeamFish #fishofmastodon #fishfriday #ichthyology #goby #freshwater
A new freshwater goby of Rhinogobius Gill, 1859 (Teleostei, Gobiidae) from South Central Vietnam
A new species of freshwater gobiid fish of genus Rhinogobius Gill, 1859, was collected from the Cai Phan Rang River basin, South Central Vietnam. Rhinogobius phuocbinhensis n. sp.doi.org
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Stonehenge may have been erected to unite early British farming communities, research finds theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/d… #Archaeology #Stonehenge #Scotland #England
Stonehenge may have been erected to unite early British farming communities, research finds
The alter stone, which we now know is from Scotland, may have been a gift or marker of political allianceEsther Addley (The Guardian)
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#NewSpecies!
New moth from #china just landed:
Anorthoa wangi
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/B9BC013…
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.e139425
#BioDataJournal #AnorthoaWangi
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #lepidoptera #moths #mothsmatter
A new species related to Anorthoa changi from Wuyishan National Park (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Hadeninae)
Anorthoa Berio, 1980 is a genus within the subfamily Hadeninae . This genus has a close relationship with the rama species complex of the genus Harutaeographa.Rui Xie (Pensoft Publishers)
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#NewSpecies
New skink from #australia just snuck in:
Liopholis purnululu
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/EC6387B…
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5551.…
#Zootaxa #LiopholisPurnululu
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #herpetology #herps #reptiles #skink
Molecular and morphological assessment of the Liopholis inornata (Rosén, 1905) species group (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae), with descriptions of two new species from northern Western Australia
Molecular genetic and morphological assessments were undertaken on the Liopholis inornata species group of skinks that occur on sandy soils in both mesic and arid regions of Australia.doi.org
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#PhotoOfTheDay: Orange #Lava, Blue #Lagoon
#Landsat 9 captured this image of lava coming from an eruptive fissure near Stóra Skógfell peak on Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula.
Lava from the eruption flowed across major roads and closed in on the Blue Lagoon, a popular tourist destination. This natural color scene is overlaid with an infrared signal to help distinguish the lava’s heat signature.
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Orange Lava, Blue Lagoon - NASA
Landsat 9 captured this image of lava coming from an eruptive fissure near Stóra Skógfell peak on Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula. Lava from the eruption flowed across major roads and closed in on the Blue Lagoon, a popular tourist destination.NASA
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