Biodiversity appreciation post of the day: the Glasswing butterfly!
Yes, they're not fiction. Their real name is Greta oto, and they're also referred to as espejitos ("little mirrors"). They're found in central and north regions of South America.
About the wings, from wikia:
"The transparency of Greta oto’s wings results from the combination of several properties: wing material has a low absorption of visible light, there is low scattering of the light that passes through the wings, and there is low reflection of the light impinging on the wing's surface. The latter occurs for a broad range of incident wavelengths, covering the entire visible spectrum, and all incidence angles."
Yes, they're not fiction. Their real name is Greta oto, and they're also referred to as espejitos ("little mirrors"). They're found in central and north regions of South America.
About the wings, from wikia:
"The transparency of Greta oto’s wings results from the combination of several properties: wing material has a low absorption of visible light, there is low scattering of the light that passes through the wings, and there is low reflection of the light impinging on the wing's surface. The latter occurs for a broad range of incident wavelengths, covering the entire visible spectrum, and all incidence angles."
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Is THIS the Real Reason Weather is Getting Wilder?
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Is THIS the Real Reason Weather is Getting Wilder?
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (EPUB attached)
David Graeber’s final book, in collaboration with archeologist David Wengrow, is an intellectual event with profound implications for everyone organizing for a revolutionary transformation of human life.
The work is a systematic demystification of any narrative of human pre-history that seeks to point to an “origin of inequality,” whether that origin is taken as a fall from prior egalitarian social relationships or as a necessary step in the progress of humanity to organize at larger scales.
Grounded in evidence from anthropology and archeology in recent decades, The Dawn of Everything shatters both popular and academic assumptions about determinism in the human condition, and provides a new framework for understanding the centrality of freedom in the human experience.
David Graeber’s final book, in collaboration with archeologist David Wengrow, is an intellectual event with profound implications for everyone organizing for a revolutionary transformation of human life.
The work is a systematic demystification of any narrative of human pre-history that seeks to point to an “origin of inequality,” whether that origin is taken as a fall from prior egalitarian social relationships or as a necessary step in the progress of humanity to organize at larger scales.
Grounded in evidence from anthropology and archeology in recent decades, The Dawn of Everything shatters both popular and academic assumptions about determinism in the human condition, and provides a new framework for understanding the centrality of freedom in the human experience.
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