Replacing grass lawns with native plants
Article
Article
chicagotribune.com
Column: Homeowners, it’s time to ignore your neighbors’ manicured lawns and replace grass with native plants
Suburban homeowners can do themselves and the environment a big favor by replacing grass with native plants, though some may feel peer pressure from neighbors to maintain manicured lawns.
No evidence UFOs are alien craft, unclassified US intelligence report to reveal
Article
Article
Cities Have Unique Microbial 'Fingerprints' – Study
Article
Article
ScienceAlert
Cities Have Unique Microbial 'Fingerprints', First Study of Its Kind Reveals
Each city is populated by a unique host of microbial organisms, and this microbial 'fingerprint' is so distinctive, the DNA on your shoe is likely enough to identify where you live, scientists say.
Ancient Indigenous forest gardens still yield bounty 150 years later
Article
Article
National Post
Ancient Indigenous forest gardens still yield bounty 150 years later: study
Along Canada’s northwest coast, ancient Indigenous forest gardens — untended for more than 150 years — continue to thrive. Ts’msyen and Coast Salish peoples once planted and cared for plots of native fruit and nut trees, shrubs, and medicinal plants and roots…
50% reduction in krill in past 6 decades
Article
Article
Communications Biology
North Atlantic warming over six decades drives decreases in krill abundance with no associated range shift
Martin Edwards et al. use data spanning from 1958–2017 from the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey of the North Atlantic Ocean to examine krill distribution and abundance in conjunction...
Researchers: Culture drives human evolution more than genetics
Article
Article
phys.org
Researchers: Culture drives human evolution more than genetics
In a new study, University of Maine researchers found that culture helps humans adapt to their environment and overcome challenges better and faster than genetics.
Meritocracy Is a Myth
Article
Article
Reuters
Review: Meritocracy is a myth
In the 18th century, French revolutionaries violently overturned centuries of feudal privileges by declaring that all men should be equal and all careers should be open to talent. The denizens of today’s capitalist elite who frequent the likes of the World…
The depth of Bill Gates' ties with Epstein
Article,
Article,
Unlimited Hangout
The Cover-Up Continues: The Truth About Bill Gates, Microsoft, and Jeffrey Epstein
While more revelations about the Bill Gates–Jeffrey Epstein relationship have begun trickling out following the Gates’s divorce announcement, the strong of evidence pointing to their relationship beginning decades prior to 2011 continues to be covered up…
Modern cities modelled as “super-cells” rather than multicellular organisms
Article
Article
Wiley Online Library
Modern cities modelled as “super‐cells” rather than multicellular organisms: Implications for industry, goods and services
In industrial cities, the quantitative configuration, spatial distribution and functioning of organaras, citynucleus and cityplasm are mapping of organelles, nucleus and cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells...
Denmark parliament approves giant artificial island off Copenhagen
Article
Article
BBC News
Denmark parliament approves giant artificial island off Copenhagen
Lynetteholm aims to house 35,000 people and protect the port, but environmentalists have concerns.
Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater
Article,
Article,
MINING.COM
Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater
Saudi Arabia-based researchers employed an electrochemical cell containing a ceramic membrane to extract lithium from seawater.
Humans Can Learn How to 'Echolocate' in 10 Weeks, Experiment Shows
Article
Article
ScienceAlert
Humans Can Learn How to 'Echolocate' in Just 10 Weeks, Experiment Shows
With enough training, most humans can learn how to echolocate, using their tongue to make clicking sounds and interpreting the echoes that come back, reflected from the surrounding environment.
Photographer captures 'odd but exciting' crow behaviour known as anting
Article
Article
CBC
Photographer captures 'odd but exciting' crow behaviour known as anting | CBC News
A Victoria-area photographer captured a crow in the process of anting, a behaviour that has confounded experts for decades.
Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Crow takes An Acid Bird Bath
Also known as “ anting “ 🐜
Also known as “ anting “ 🐜