Oliver not feeling good after surgery yesterday. Seems a little better this morning, at least he’s eating. As for me I have a thorosentis this morning and then need to pick up meds. I hope the thorosentis gets rid of this cough. Then maybe bookshelf stuff if I feel okay
The creative’s incredible retro illustrations draw on special moments from his childhood.
We all used to say that social media isn’t free: if you’re not paying for a product, then you are the product. Which meant that all your usage information was sold to entities that would pay social media companies for it. This is a new -ish territory, maybe: now you pay to be the product.
They can take it.
Source: 5 Extreme Times Tardigrades Proved Themselves to Be Incredibly Resilient : ScienceAlert
The novelist attained fame with gripping works of eco-fiction. How hard could it be to rewild his own backyard?
Source: Best-Selling Author Jeff VanderMeer Finds That Nature Is Stranger Than Fiction | Audubon
It is still a glimpse into the future: Astronauts could be put into artificial hibernation and in this state be better protected from cosmic radiation. At present, there are already promising approaches to follow up such considerations. An international research team now has found decisive indications of the possible benefits of artificial hibernation for radiation resistance.
Source: Safety in space: Synthetic hibernation could provide protection from cosmic radiation — ScienceDaily
Jay Samit’s watercolors at the Richard Taittinger Gallery on Ludlow, is several kinds of trip, time travel into our Pop art past
Source: Crows able to understand the concept of recursion
In this new effort, the research team conducted similar experiments with crows that show that they, too, have the cognitive ability to understand recursion.
The experiments by both teams involved training test subjects to choose bracket pairs in a sentence made of symbols—choosing the parentheses in the sentence {()}, for example. Once the crows got the idea, the researchers then created longer sentences to see if the test subjects could still pick out the ones that were embedded. As with the monkeys, the researchers found that the test subjects could pick out the embedded characters in numbers that were greater than chance would allow.
