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2024-04-08 @ 12.05.00 ∈ In English

The World’s Biggest Blueberry is 70 Times Heavier Than Most | Moss and Fog
Nearly the size of a lime or lemon, this massive blueberry is now crowned the world’s heaviest. Grown by Costa’s Berry Farm in Corindi, New South Wales, Australia, the berry is definitely one for the record books, but isn’t the only massive blueberry they picked. Supposedly the giant was growing amongst 20 or so similarly huge berries.
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2024-04-07 @ 15.54.29 ∈ In English

(From March)

Holding Hands with the “Fediverse” – ActivityPub at SFO Museum
SFO Museum has joined the “Fediverse”. We have begun to operate a series of automated “bot” accounts that are published using the ActivityPub protocols which can be subscribed to from any client, like Mastodon, that supports those standards.
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2024-04-05 @ 19.30.41 ∈ In English

Inconsistency is a feature, not a bug
Google used to have some beautiful logos for its apps. Each had a distinct shape, style, and colour. Then, someone decided that they all needed a consistent visual language. And this mess was born.
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2024-04-04 @ 15.12.45 ∈ Lorem ipsum

(February 2023)

Debora Noemi on Instagram
: “Vamos fazer esse exercício também? Usei o metrônomo em 80! Comece mais devagar e vá aumentando gradativamente! #percepção #percepçãoritmica #percepçãomusical #ritmo #teoriamusical #aulasdepiano #metronomo #musica”
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2024-04-03 @ 16.41.51 ∈ Suomeksi

Mikä velka?
Nyt kun hallitus on valmistautumassa niin sanottuun kehysriiheen ja uusiin julkisen talouden ”sopeutustoimiin”, on hyvä hieman paneutua vähän siihen, mikä on se velka josta niin paljon puhutaan ja jota hallitus julistaa pienentävänsä.
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2024-04-03 @ 16.18.15 ∈ In English

I wonder if this is (at least partly) explans different people’s different video framerate prefences (30 vs 60 fps).

I spy with my speedy eye – scientists discover speed of visual perception ranges widely in humans
Some participants in the experiment indicated they saw the light as completely still when it was in fact flashing about 35 times per second, while others were still able to perceive the flashing at rates of over 60 times per second.
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2024-04-03 @ 16.14.06 ∈ In English

After 10 years of work, landmark study reveals new ‘tree of life’ for all birds living today
The largest-ever study of bird genomes has produced a remarkably clear picture of the bird family tree. Published in the journal Nature today, our study shows that most of the modern groups of birds first appeared within 5 million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
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2024-04-02 @ 11.07.11 ∈ In English

Saving a Sea Monkey Sanctuary | Hakai Magazine
If Great Salt Lake were to disappear, an annual five million tonnes of farmed fish and shrimp could disappear with it. That’s roughly equal to the wild seafood the United States and Canada combined manage to catch in a year.