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  1. Xoic

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    I've seen mushroom slices that look just like that thumbnail. Whoah—weird idea. Why does the brain look so shroom-like? :superthink:

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    With the lighter gravity area in Northern Canada, we could make a killing in the diet market by shipping people there. :)
     
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    Look at that red patch over the Rocky Mountains. I'm not overweight- I'm over-gravitied.
     
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    "Crows are some of the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. They are capable of making rule-guided decisions and of creating and using tools. They also appear to show an innate sense of what numbers are. Researchers now report that these clever birds are able to understand recursion—the process of embedding structures in other, similar structures—which was long thought to be a uniquely human ability."

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/crows-perform-yet-another-skill-once-thought-distinctively-human/
     
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    Amazing! And the crows did better than the monkeys did. There's a lot more going on with birds than we realize.
     
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    More about recursion (from the Wiki page)

    A visual form of recursion known as the Droste effect. The woman in this image holds an object that contains a smaller image of her holding an identical object, which in turn contains a smaller image of herself holding an identical object, and so forth. 1904 Droste cocoa tin, designed by Jan Musset


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    Corvids in particular. They keep surprising researchers when it comes to cognitive research.
     
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    An elephant family sleeping, photographed by a drone. Baby always gets the best spot.

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    Baby stingrays look like aliens stuck inside ravioli.

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    They also kind of look like those underwater angels from The Abyss. This is probably where Cameron or his effects team got the idea.
     
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    Do you recommend Marinara, or Alfredo sauce for them?
     
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    For ravioli? Mmm ... I like both
     
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    Pesto.
     
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    A monkey selfie. PETA tried to use the monkey selfies to establish a legal precedent that animals should be declared copyright holders.

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    A sneaker wave.

     
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    My daughter, granddaughter and I visited Black Sand Beach (Reynisfjara) in Iceland, one of the deadliest beaches in the world because people do not pay attention to the fifty signs in primary colors warning them to never turn their backs on the water. Beautiful place, but we kept out eyes on the waves and didn't go too close to the water.
     
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    This is the first ever visualisation of the Big Bang concept, where t=0 indicates the beginning of time (1927) | © UCLouvain, Archives Georges Lemaître, Louvain-la-Neuve

    A "birth certificate" for the universe. Previous to this, the universe was considered constant and without beginning or end.

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    Art, the Universe, and Everything
     
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    The beginning of time was 1927?
     
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    I like how most of these are rather egg shaped, yet the Bald Eagle comes out with a baseball.
     
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    And grows to this.

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