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A symphony of squirting clams
These are giant clams, from the genus Tridacna, the largest living bivalve mollusks.
The water being propelled from the
upwardly directed exhalant openings, clears the mantle cavity as well a startling predators 🧵1/2
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"Home is not where you are born. Home is where all your attempts to escape, cease."
--Naguib Mahfouz
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“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
I really wish ppl would say the ENTIRE quote when they use it.
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You know if you put a rotten apple in a crate of good apples they all become rotten apples over time. I'm sure there's an algorithm for that.
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Outside of quarantine this is still happening... and will be there waiting for us when this nightmare is over. When we return to normal, let’s do all we can to protect the beauty of this planet. xitter.cf/Oceandiversity2/status…
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In these days of anxiety, I wanted to find a way to continue to share some of the music that gives me comfort. The first of my #SongsOfComfort: Dvořák – "Going Home”
Stay safe.
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Dave - Black (Live at The BRITs 2020) youtu.be/mXLS2IzZSdg via @YouTube
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Crown shyness, the phenomenon in which the crowns of fully stocked trees do not touch each other, is usually shown from below. This is what it looks like from above ow.ly/p7Pf30osfEv [source and full video, by Dimitar Karanikolov: buff.ly/35rGRwt]
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The Ginkgo is a "living fossil" and has been around for 250 million years. The first book on Richard Powers's reading list is ‘Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot' by Peter Crane, director @oak_spring. Here’s an interview he did with @YaleE360. e360.yale.edu/features/peter…
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“Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it.”
― Sir Henry Royce
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Irish Teenager Wins Google Science Award for Removing Microplastics From Oceans - EcoWatch ecowatch.com/google-science-…
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It was 1935 Henry Phillips patented a new Screw and Driver technology.
The Phillips system saved millions of dollars in lost time and product as compared to the old slot screw.
Automated manufacturing soared using Philips.
By 1940 ~89% of screw companies licensed the design.
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Watch “Cathedral Of Champions” on #Vimeo vimeo.com/372987754?ref=tw-s…
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Agatized coral is found in ancient ocean beds, where silica rich groundwater has percolated through them and over time has replaced it's calcium carbonate skeleton with a hard variety of Chalcedony ow.ly/vJkL30nMId3 [source of the gif: ow.ly/qo3J30nMIe3]
