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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.
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2024-04-01 @ 12.24.15 ∈ Suomeksi

Yle: Kesäukkoset saapuivat yöllä etuajassa Suomeen

Salamavalokuva, Nokia
Tuntuu, että melkein joka salama jää ainakin jotenkin kuvaan, koska salamat ovat enimmäkseen uskomattoman pitkiä vaakasuoria, monihaaraisia, pitkään välkkyviä ruoskia. En ole ihan varma, mutta ehkä niitä voisi alasinryömiäisiksikin kutsua. Salamat ovat niin laaja-alaisia, että niistä ei voi tähdätä kameraa ohi!
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2024-03-31 @ 9.13.45 ∈ In English

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Why It’s Time to Stop Saving the Planet*
Western cultures — and even some climate scientists and sustainability advocates — often share the idea that there is the “natural world” and the “human world.” The natural world is seen as pristine and untouched, while the human world is chaotic and ever changing. But all living things change the world around them in order to build homes, eat, drink and move around.