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28 Feb 02:00
Migrating blue whales rely on memory to find their feeding grounds
by Cathleen O'Grady
Breakfast spots, coffee shops, and watering holes pepper the daily commutes of modern urban humans, but we try to remember the ones where we get the best food or drinks. If we do longer journeys routinely, we also keep track of the best grazing grounds—a diner, a gas station with the best snacks, and so on.
Blue whales, according to research published in PNAS this week, seem to make similar mental notes. On their annual migration, their path takes in the spots that have proven to be the most reliable feeding grounds over the years. In doing this, the whales may bypass hotspots that pop up and fade from one year to the next, suggesting that they rely heavily on memory to find a solid meal. But in a world where “normal” is shifting rapidly, the endangered whales may no longer be able to rely on the abundance of those old, faithful feeding grounds.
Why do whales go where they go?
Blue whales are the largest animal that we know to have lived, and that means they need colossal amounts of food. Despite this, they’re picky eaters, feeding almost exclusively on small crustaceans called krill, which they eat by lunging through a large swarm with an open mouth, trapping the animals in their mouths while the sea water filters back out. And they manage to find sources of food while migrating from a summer near the poles to a winter spent closer to the equator.
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14 Feb 21:30
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In my defense, I've seen Joann Sfar do this with bubbles in a non-erotic context. Then again, he's French, so maybe it was erotic after all.
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04 Feb 03:32
The Wave
by Gregor
Hey look, it’s a refined version of that panel from Wade and Sea. It’s also available in store as a print right now! Also patrons will be getting their patron packs of this really soon, posting em now.
This doesn’t count as this week’s comic btw, see you in the comic stream in about 8 hours!
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04 Feb 03:20
Over-the-air update strands NIO electric car on a highway in China
by Sean O'Kane
One of EV startup NIO’s cars got stuck on a highway in China on Wednesday after the driver triggered an over-the-air software update, according to Bloomberg and the South China Morning Post. The driver, who was testing the car, and a NIO representative were wading through Beijing’s notorious traffic when the update was triggered. They wound up inside for “more than an hour” after the process began, SCMP says.
The NIO representative who was stuck in the car said on Chinese social media site Weibo that “[p]olice officers came, one group after another, yet we could not even wind the window down,” according to SCMP.
NIO apologized on Weibo, according to Bloomberg. The company said in a post it will “optimize” the confirmation process for...
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03 Feb 21:29
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This is one of those comics where I'm sure someone somewhere must've beat me to the idea.
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28 Jan 21:24
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Halting
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You can also solve the Goldbach Conjecture, for the special case of only considering numbers arising before you beat the machine with a stick.
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27 Jan 07:57
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Grammichele: The Hexagonal Town
by Kaushik
Located in the province of Catania, in the Italian island of Sicily, is the town of Grammichele. It is one of the few towns in the world to have the unique hexagonal layout.
The town was founded after the great Sicily earthquake of 1693 wiped out an earlier settlement called Occhialà, located to the north of modern Grammichele. The survivors built a new town and named it Grammichele, after St. Michele, in the hope that the saint will protect the new town from further disasters.
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23 Jan 06:24
The Actual Meaning of 11 Common Email Phrases
by twistedsifter
9GAG recently did a compilation of common email phrases and what their actual meaning is. If you’ve ever lived that office life you know email is ground zero for passive aggressiveness.
For me, ‘per my last email’ is the ultimate passive aggressive phrase, but there are plenty more that imply something far snarkier than the actual words on screen.
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18 Jan 01:49
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Someday I'll put together a whole book on the theme of taking love cliches to their logical extreme.
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15 Jan 04:10
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