In English – Sivu 49

2023-09-06 @ 16.39.17 ∈ In English

Scientists spice up their anti-mosquito weaponry with mustard

Of the four seed meal types, garden cress proved the most lethal, killing more than 95 percent of mosquito larvae after only 24 hours and 100 percent in less than 48 hours. All seed meals were toxic to the larvae, except for a pennycress treatment that had been heated.

2023-09-06 @ 16.26.39 ∈ In English

a portrait of Tenochtitlan

a 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire

2023-09-04 @ 15.20.22 ∈ In English

Amateur sleuths take on bike thieves in Finland

Ilkka Pulkkinen [is] not a policeman but an ordinary citizen who leads a team called Bike Patrols - volunteers who spend several hours a day chasing stolen bikes in Oulu, a city 170km (100 miles) south of the Arctic Circle in Finland.

2023-09-04 @ 14.51.49 ∈ In English

Scientists finally know why Germany’s wild boar are surprisingly radioactive

While cesium from both the nuclear weapons testing and the Chernobyl accident spread through the soil, [cesium seeps very slowly.] Deer truffles, located between 20 and 40 centimeters, have already absorbed the “older” cesium from six decades ago. The “younger” cesium from Chernobyl […] is just now integrating at the soil depths where the mushrooms are located.

2023-09-02 @ 16.25.25 ∈ In English

(From April)

I Can See for Piles and Piles and Piles

So our first qualifier for what constitutes a successful pile photo is depth. There has to be a fair amount of stuff present. Your viewer needs to be thinking, “That’s too much of that thing in one place, right?” Verticality is important here. If things aren’t amassed on top of one another, you don’t have a pile. You have an arrangement.

2023-09-02 @ 16.16.39 ∈ In English

Hundreds of Tough Mudder racers infected by rugged, nasty bacterium

Hundreds of people who participated in a recent Tough Mudder event—a very muddy obstacle course race—held in Sonoma, California, have fallen ill with pustular rashes, lesions, fever, flu-like symptoms, nerve pain, and other symptoms, local health officials and media outlets report.

2023-09-01 @ 11.00.48 ∈ In English

(From July)

I Blame the W3C's HTML Standard for Ordered Lists [tech, soc, Patreon]

CSS will always be hamstrung by HTML's toxic content/appearance paradigm

2023-08-29 @ 17.37.55 ∈ In English

A case of melanism found in a wild gentoo penguin living in Antarctica

[The] research team found no evidence of the extra coloring on its white front making the penguin any more susceptible to predators—and it did not seem to bother the other penguins in its colony.

2023-08-28 @ 19.03.59 ∈ In English

COVID-19 virus is evolving rapidly in white-tailed deer, new research finds

The combined findings suggest that the white-tailed deer species is a reservoir for SARS-CoV-2 that enables continuing mutation, and that the virus's circulation in deer could lead to its spread to other wildlife and livestock.

2023-08-28 @ 19.00.02 ∈ In English

‘Oh my God’: live worm found in Australian woman’s brain in world-first discovery

The doctors and scientists involved in her case hypothesise that a python may have shed the parasite via its faeces into the grass. They believe the patient was probably infected with the parasite directly from touching the native grass or after eating the greens.