marraskuu 2024

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2024-11-09 @ 17.35.40 ∈ In English

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Bad News: The Ocean Is Full of Spiders*
*Sea spiders are not actually arachnids, although they certainly look the part. They’re weird guys, and the specifics of their strangeness may actually help us to better understand how all invertebrate groups evolved.
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2024-11-08 @ 20.06.03 ∈ In English

Sticky paper on bumpers reveals scale of bee deaths due to car collisions
A team in Utah has found that bee deaths due to collisions with automobiles in the western parts of the United States may be in the tens of millions every day.
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2024-11-07 @ 11.29.34 ∈ In English

Are these tiny insects the world’s laziest bugs?
I was puzzled to discover that some group members appear to do nothing. Not helping out, not breeding, nothing. Few animal societies are known where group members help no one, not even themselves.
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2024-11-05 @ 15.13.16 ∈ Suomeksi

Poliisi pyytää havaintoja Kouvolassa kadonneesta naisesta
[Katoamiseen] ei epäillä liittyvän rikosta. […] Kadonnut […] on 24-vuotias, noin 170 senttimetriä pitkä ja normaalivartaloinen. Hänellä on vaaleat hiukset. Poliisin tietojen mukaan kadonnut on mahdollisesti liikkunut Kouvolassa Kaunisnurmen kaupunginosan alueella.
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2024-11-04 @ 19.13.04 ∈ Suomeksi

Ruutu+:n irtisanominen on monivaiheinen esterata - Kuluttaja-asiamies puuttui asiaan ja Sanoma joutui tekemään muutoksia
Kilpailu- ja kuluttajavirasto (KKV) tiedottaa, että kuluttaja-asiamies on kiinnittänyt huomiota Ruutu+ -palvelun irtisanomisen vaikeuteen kuluttajilta tulleiden yhteydenottojen ja sosiaalisessa mediassa kiertäneen videon perusteella.
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2024-11-04 @ 15.48.12 ∈ In English

Fovea detector
Look at any specific point and you should clearly see the extent of your fovea (the stars only seem to be rotating in a small circle at the center of your vision). Move your head back and forth to see it grow/shrink. Works better in full screen mode.
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2024-11-03 @ 14.08.28 ∈ In English

Say the prime
We're attempting to get a collection of humans to say every digit of the newly-discovered (and currently largest-known prime number) Mersenne prime M136279841, and hope to achieve this before another larger prime is discovered.