Kettinki – Sivu 74

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 @ 16.33.17 ∈ Suomeksi

Ounastunturilla poikkeuksellinen metsämittariperhosten massaesiintymä – varpukasvillisuus paikoin kuollut

Laajoja ruskettuneita alueita on useilla Ounastunturien keroilla kuten Pyhäkerolla, Pikkuvaarassa ja Outtakalla, joilla erityisesti kanerva ja variksenmarja ovat kuivuneet ja kuolleet. Kesällä tehdyissä tutkimuksissa metsämittarin havaittiin esiintyvän tuhoalueilla valtavan suurina tiheyksinä.

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 @ 17.57.29 ∈ Suomeksi

Naiskirurgit tekevät selvästi parempaa jälkeä kuin mieskirurgit, jättitutkimus paljastaa

Mieskirurgien potilaat kuolivat 25 prosenttia todennäköisemmin vuoden kuluttua leikkauksesta kuin naiskirurgien potilaat.

2023-09-04 @ 17.51.16 ∈ Suomeksi

Porin Noormarkusta löytyi toistaiseksi tuntematon vainaja

Vainaja on todennäköisesti mies. Hänen yllään oli siniset farkut, ruskeat nahkakengät, musta nahkatakki sekä vihertävänruskea pusero, jonka kauluksessa on vetoketju. Vainajan viereltä löytyi musta kangaslaukku. […] Poliisin arvion mukaan henkilö on menehtynyt kevään 2023 aikana.

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.

2023-09-03 @ 20.31.38 ∈ Lorem ipsum

Stan Carey (@stancarey@mastodon.ie)

Scott Kim’s symmetrical alphabet, a beautiful mirror ambigram #design #alphabet #ambigram #art #typography #calligraphy #wordplay

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.