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Rollercoasters in Physics — the total energy is just being transformed back and forth between gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy!
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JUST IN: A federal judge has just ORDERED Llano County Texas to return "all books" that were removed from their libraries due to their content or viewpoint.
Library patrons successfully argued that "content-based restrictions" were likely unconstitutional.
The Texas judge is also prohibiting the officials from removing any more books while a lawsuit remains pending.
The books that were banned included a book for teens that calls the Ku Klux Klan a terrorist group, Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” and a comedic children’s book with three stories from Dawn McMillan’s “I Need a New Butt!” series.
The decision could set wide reaching precedent in light of recent book banning in Florida, supported by Ron DeSantis.
What a great victory for books! 💙
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Encased in acrylic and carefully labeled, this display collection by Tim and Cory Marriott shows five noble gasses are subjected to the high frequency electric field of a miniature Tesla coil
[source, read more: buff.ly/3KV8Mdy]
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The fish is using a rock as a tool to help it break open its hard-shelled prey 🔨 15 wrasse species have been observed using tools to date 🐟 Help us discover new species! Report your observation of this behavior at fishtooluse.com or contact me.
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The long term impacts are still unknown. trib.al/WmQMgyz
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If we think lithium is our key to surviving and curbing climate change we should be investing in desalination technology that harvests Li from the concentrated brine byproduct of desalination facilities, instead of ripping it from the earth and exploiting labor abroad.
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The books I read in 2022 (click a cover to read the review): richardcarter.com/books-2022… #AmReading
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Every 4 to 10 years, certain oak populations will synchronize to produce almost no acorns at all (starving off mammals), only to rain them down excessively the following year. This happens because only one in 10,000 acorns results in an eventual tree buff.ly/3oIHlK5
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For the past several months, I’ve been investigating the case of the Arctic crab collapses.
I interviewed observers, whistleblowers, fishermen, government officials, and marine biologists. Here is my published story and a thread of final thoughts:
nautil.us/where-have-all-the…
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Kids who, right before surgery, spent 20 min with a therapy dog, reported less pain & showed faster recovery than controls immediately post surgery:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2603…
*Human-animal interactions are powerful & more research should be funded*
#GreenCare #AnimalAssistedTherapy
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You may not believe that your cat was born with a predatory instinct because it's a so playful critter, but it looks like cats are responsible for the global extinction of 33 animal species & responsible for the deaths of 6.9-20.7 billion mammals annually buff.ly/2s8mL91
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Vote like your lives depend on it.
The abortion ban alone should be enough to convince you.
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Here’s one of the specimens being photographed - Bathypterois guentheri. Tripod fishes are unusual aulopiforme fishes with elongate pelvic and caudal fins. These prolongations are very stiff, which allows them to essentially stand motionless on the sea floor.
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The Molly Miller (Scartella cristata) or I like to call it, the "Punk Blenny" is very common in shallow (1-3m depth) Caribbean reefs and rocky shores. It usually lives in small holes and stretches its head out to eat food particles that pass by. #ichthyology
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Anytime a republican wants to talk economy remind them, 22 of the 25 states with the worst economies, are republican controlled or dominated states.
22 out of 25
It's their incompetence that's dragging us down.
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Hey! Everybody! Aren't net-casting spiders some of the coolest/weirdest animals around? Want to learn about them daily, in a tweet-sized format? Follow @Deinopid_Day and get ready for an 8-day long adventure of deinopid facts, trivia, photos, and field video, starting Oct 1st!
