Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't. He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies. She said yes. Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway. Then he bred them. The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear. Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10. A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations. -Wilderness Whisper

kobiety są niby emocjonalne, ale to przed facetami trzeba barykadować miasta bo ich ulubiona drużyna przegrała mecz :(

“Red Delicious” is one of our greatest failings as a race It was bred not for sugar content, tang, crispness or ease of transport The only criteria when creating this abomination of a fruit was “it must be as red as possible” This is what you get when you optimize towards a totally worthless goal at the expense of everything else An apple so disgusting its flavor actually improves when you put salt on it

The gang will surely love this one!

Me searching the whole internet for a game I used to play when I was 7 yrs

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Everyone ignoring the obvious I’m crying

Instead of book reports, I had my students design food trucks representing a classic novel of their choice, complete with menus, staff and playlists. They crushed it. Enjoy a sampling.

In 1814, Japanese artist Matsumoto Hoji painted this grumpy frog.