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Niku TNO

Astronomers have recently discovered a new mystery object orbiting the sun on a plane nearly perpendicular to the rest of the planets. Adding to the weirdness, the trans-Neptunian object, which has been nicknamed “Niku,” is also spinning around the sun backwards, in the opposite direction of the rest of the planets. So far, astronomers have little idea what could cause such abnormal celestial behavior.

Barbie Savior

Barbie Savior Jesus. Adventures. Africa. 2 worlds. 1 love. Babies. Beauty. Not qualified. Called. 20 years young. It’s not about me…but it kind of is. 👶🏿🌍❤️🙋🏼

Many of you have inquired as to where exactly in the great country of Africa I live. It has come to my attention that the country of Africa is actually made up of several countries! The time has come to disclose my location….I live in Nambia! #makeNambiagreatagain #orforthefirsttime #startedfromNambianowimhere #ifyourefromNambiawhyareyouwhite #yeaheveryoneinNambiacanreadSwedish #NambiaisrightnexttoWakanda #whereLupitalives #Lupitaismyneighbor #doesNambiahaveawall? #iblesstherainsdowninNambia #myheartbelongstoNambia #ourcreativepresident #whenyouforgettoreadthebookbeforebookclub #whenyoudontknowjustguess #Trumpwinshideandseek #hestheonlyonewhoknewwhereIwas #theyhavebiggerhandsinNambia #heretogetrich #alsoknownascolonization #Nambiaisthenewfourthworld #icanseeNambiafrommyhut #ittakesaNambianvillage #straightouttaNambia #orangeisthenewNambia”

Gene drives

knowing what gene drives are is crucial to understand the most important and powerful biotechnology yet.

Gene drives work in mice:

In a paper in Nature, biologists demonstrate that gene drive technology also works — at least up to a point — in a mammal: the mouse. Their findings highlight the potential, but also the significant limitations, of putting gene drives to work in the real world. For at least some time to come, these kinds of “active genetics” technologies may be more useful as laboratory tools than as instruments for remaking nature.

Predicting Drone Strikes

Climate change plus religious confusion plus a shit economy equals drone strikes.

climate change is very tightly woven with war and conflict. In one sense, this relationship isn’t news. Climate change causes resource scarcity — and resource scarcity is, historically, one brutally reliable trigger of war and strife. The US Department of Defense certainly takes it seriously; last year it released a report calling climate change “an urgent and growing threat to our national security, contributing to increased natural disasters, refugee flows, and conflicts over basic resources such as food and water.” Another nonprofit study recently argued that a massive 2006-2011 drought in Syria, by driving rural populations into the already-stressed cities, helped accelerate the country’s human-rights catastrophe. But that map above suggests an even more intriguing and subtle finding: That climate change tracks conflict with such granularity that it even tracks drone strikes.

Beeeeees

“One theory was that the queen was trapped in my car and the swarm were following,. But they couldn’t find the queen anywhere so I’ve no idea if that was right. Apparently bees can swarm at this time of the year and it is a very strong instinct for them to follow the queen. I still don’t really understand why because they couldn’t see the queen anywhere. Perhaps they just like the heat of my car. It is possible the queen had been attracted to something in the car – perhaps a sweet or food in the car. ” The swarm of around 20K had followed her and were sat around on the boot of the car.


The level of eusociality required for this is breathtaking.
2022-12-02: How eusociality may have evolved

Ant pupae—which are equivalent to the chrysalis stage of the butterfly—produce a milklike substance derived from molting fluid that is eaten by both adult ants and larvae. Typically, when insects molt, they secrete a fluid that’s simply resorbed by the animal when the molt is complete. But in ants, this nutrition-rich substance serves as a kind of “metabolic currency” within the colony and may have played a role in the ants’ evolutionary transition from a group of loosely cooperating individuals into a truly integrated superorganism