2023-11-24 @ 10.26.38 ∈ In English
Moth found in West London is a new species from Australia
In 2021 an amateur moth-er living in Ealing, West London, opened her moth trap to find something she didn’t recognise. […] Detailed analysis of the moth, including both morphology and DNA, revealed that the insect was indeed a new species to science, but one that is native to Western Australia rather than Ealing.
2023-11-23 @ 17.14.39 ∈ Suomeksi
2023-11-23 @ 17.09.57 ∈ Suomeksi
Perinteisten kansantautien osuus pitkistä sairauspoissaoloista on enää kolmasosa aiemmasta
Sydän- ja verisuonitautien, ruoansulatuselinten sairauksien sekä hengityselinten sairauksien aiheuttamien pitkien sairauspoissaolojen osuus on enää kolmasosa vuoden 1970 tasosta. Kehityksen taustalla ovat muutokset elintavoissa, elinoloissa ja työn luonteessa.
2023-11-23 @ 17.06.38 ∈ In English
TIL
Azolla event - Wikipedia
As [blooms of the fern] died and sank to the stagnant sea floor, they were incorporated into the [sediment]; the resulting draw-down of carbon dioxide has been speculated to have helped reverse the planet from the "greenhouse Earth" state of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal [Maximum] to the current icehouse Earth known as the Late Cenozoic Ice Age.
2023-11-22 @ 18.49.07 ∈ In English
Green mamba alert continues in Tilburg after escape - DutchNews.nl
A highly poisonous green mamba which escaped from its enclosure at a home in Tilburg on Monday still hasn’t been found, local council officials have said. The council is calling on people not to approach the snake if they spot it, or try to catch it, as its bite can be lethal.
2023-11-22 @ 18.43.33 ∈ Suomeksi
Kun elektronisen musiikin pioneeri Esa Kotilainen toi Suomeen ensimmäisen Minimoogin, soittimen hinnalla olisi saanut henkilöauton
Esa Kotilainen (1946–2023) oli pelimannihenkinen käsityöläinen, ennakkoluuloton raja-aitojen ylittäjä ja pidetty soittokumppani. Jukka Mikkola muistelee kosmista musiikintekijää.
2023-11-20 @ 18.46.12 ∈ In English
The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
[Electric bikes and mopeds are] displacing four times as much demand for oil as all the world’s electric cars at present, due to their staggering uptake in China and other nations where mopeds are a common form of transport.
2023-11-20 @ 16.33.07 ∈ In English
Opinion | I’m a Climate Scientist. I’m Not Screaming Into the Void Anymore.
Some politicians now actually campaign on climate change, instead of ignoring or lying about it. Congress passed federal climate legislation — something I’d long regarded as impossible — in 2022 as we turned in the first draft. And while the report stresses the urgency of limiting warming to prevent terrible risks, it has a new message, too: We can do this.
