I’m not sure what you mean by “advanced” but they’re really not

An Immense World by Ed Yong had a section on Mantis Shrimp and while their fascinating creatures with a really interesting vision system, their color perception isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

I’m reciting this from memory so if anyone knows better please correct me:

Mantis Shrimp have compound eyes with three sections: 1) the main section detects movement and is what they primarily use to see 2) the second section detects color. When the shrimp detects movement it will look at whatever it was with it’s color detecting section to determine if it’s prey or predator. This is a whole separate section of the eye and is unlike how ours function. The reason why the shrimp has so many detectors is because, unlike our eyes, the shrimps eyes don’t combine different color receptors to see color. The book likened it to a bar code scanner that uses the presence of certain color combinations to detect what’s there 3) one really neat thing the mantis Shrimp can do is see spiralized polarized light. We cannot see polarized light but there’s a lot of b polarized light under the ocean so seeing it is fairly common. What’s NOT common is polarized light that travels as a spiral. Mantis Shrimp seem to have evolved the ability to create spiralized polarized light and use it to communicate. As far as we know no other animal can make or see it.

Literally me

In addition, government research in the sciences is miniscule. You could cut ALL of science funding and be no where close to the 1 trillion that Musk claims he’ll be able to reduce the budget by

Commonly known as the UN biodiversity summit, COP16 is a meeting of government officials from around the world — likely including some heads of state — to figure out how to stop ecological collapse. COP, which stands for “conference of the parties,” brings together environmental leaders and officials from countries that are part of the Convention on Biological Diversity, a global treaty under the UN to conserve nature. They meet every other year to push forward a conservation agenda.

In 10-15 years people will be nastalgic for Fortnight the way people are nostalgic for Xbox 360 halo

And a Creationist!

Just visited Denver/Boulder. They had EVs everywhere

I was made for this class

Concerts used to be loss leaders to drive album sales

With albums sales down the concert has become the product and ticket master’s business model is to be the only game in town and wring out as much money from concert goers as possible

Poultry is definitely the more climate friendly of the meats but it doesn’t come without problems

There’s still increased risks of pandemic with factory farmed chickens and most chickens are raised in inhumane conditions

Because the moon is moving away very slowly there will be a last total solar eclipse at some point. We’re lucky to have such good ones currently

I’ve heard that’s the plan. They’re dedicating an hour to the presidential candidates. If only one shows up then that candidate gets the whole hour

Harris is showing within the margin of error for polls nationally

What we really want to do is look at her chances of winning each state to see the probable delegate total but it’s WAY too early to tell and either way we shouldn’t get complacent

I think the dude in the pic is trans masc

Or Alaska

Which one? I loved what I was reading and was thinking of picking one up

These are very good

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/danez-smith#tab-poems

Yup. Wish I could encourage throwing runners because they’d get more sun that way but I just enjoy having them. They’re hardy little dudes

I just sprinkle some berry food on top. I don’t fertilize much. I’m not sure they get enough sun since they’re on a covered porch. They know get a few hours each day I think

Congrats on your son! I’m sure your support is going to help them tremendously as they discover themselves