plectro1
Darwinian Man
plectro1

New Brunswick’s hardly “Northeastern Canada”.  That’s Labrador.

I wonder how insects react to natural sources of nocturnal light, like marine phosphorescence.

Just finished Red Team Blues, and am looking forward to The Bezzle. Doctorow is not impressed with tech-bros.

They are represented by the chicken.

There’s always Truth Social.

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Larry Witmer worked out the acoustics of the Parasaurolophus crest years ago, but people have been fiddling with reproducing the sounds they might have made ever since, as more sophisticated equipment became available. They could have sounded like this:

There is a slide of Argentinosaurus, which is a sauropod.

Depends upon whether you follow the Greek or the English conventions for pronouncing scientific names.

I would like to hear more about the 7-ft-tall robot called ‘R1'.

That’s kuru.

That’s a big newborn. And apparently females can have as many as 13 at a time.

Mutations can cause misfolding of proteins - there’s a heritable condition called fatal familial insomnia, in which a mutated gene produces a misfolded protein that has profound (and really nasty) neurological effects.

Answers to that question may be found here:

Finally we’re getting really large space-based astronomical instruments.

Big gross bugs are esteemed by some, I’m told.

...there is a chance that the experiment will only end up causing more bird cussing.

Not having read a book that came out in the 2020s doesn’t seem to stop some people from holding opinions on them.

Is this a surprise, from the people who thought that Lukianenko would make a suitable GoH?

That’s a weird definition of a weapon.