To be clear, it’s not that they shoot laser beams from their feathers as some sort of mating ritual or defense mechanism (which, honestly, is probably how I would have used my own laser feathers, if I had them), but that there are strikingly identical nano structures that can reflect back a little bit of laser light, under laboratory conditions:

After staining the feathers with a common dye and pumping them with soft pulses of light, they used laboratory instruments to detect beams of yellow-green laser light that were too faint to see with the naked eye. They emerged from the feathers’ eyespots, at two distinct wavelengths.

From what I understood of the article, it’s not just the size (which you can get from merging previous black holes), but the combination of size, speed, and angle that are raising eyebrows.

Smash two random black holes together, and the odds are, they’re spinning at different random angles. Do that a bunch of times, and unless their angles all happened to be lined up just right, the the resulting spin will be a lot slower than the maximum speed a black hole of that size can spin. But these were spinning at 80% and 90% of their max speed.

Okay, so maybe they were both “normal sized” black holes that gobbled up a lot of matter around a galactic nucleus? That might work, except then you’d expect them to both be spinning in the same direction - but they weren’t.

So, none of the scientists’ predictions are really matching what they actually observed. Maybe it was one of those things, maybe those models are off a bit, or maybe there’s another model to explain these kinds of black holes that we just haven’t thought of yet.

TiddlyWiki might be a good option.

From the research paper:

a) Comparison of wt and mRFP-modified major ampullate silk fibers rolled on a capillary glass (scale bars: 550 µm).

b) Strong red fluorescence can also be seen in the major ampullate gland (scale bar: 277 µm).

c i) The genomic implementation of mRFP into the major ampullate silk was confirmed by amplifying the mRFP DNA sequence extracted from the spider’s leg. Only those spiders with red fluorescent silk (scale bar: 138 µm) showed the mRFP sequence-derived signal in the agarose gel.

C ii) Total-RNA was extracted from the glands, reverse-transcribed, and subjected to R-TqPCR and a melting curve analysis showing a peak at 83°C and 87°C based on a small and a large, amplified fragment.

I think it’s 100% a didgeridoo, but one that has been molded into a shape superficially resembling a saxophone.

As a longtime didg player, I can tell you that the thing that makes this absolutely worth every penny is not how light it is, the paint job, etc, but the fact that it can hit so many “hoot” notes (what they call “trumpets”), and that each hoot note is tuned to be in the same scale as the main drone.

Most didgeridoos have only one, or maybe two hoot notes, but I watched some other videos of these things being played, and I’m seeing four or five hoot notes, in addition to the main drone.

At that point, it’s starting to grow beyond the realm of wind percussion instrument, into something that can play melodies.

Wow. As sometime who literally makes sound effects for a living, I’m going to have to remember this one. That was a neat effect.

I think you actually nailed the point perfectly. Part of the social contract is that an employer will provide enough money to meet the basic needs of the employees. When the employer fails to do that, employees can feel like “wage slaves”, or prisoners, who are being mistreated.

“We’ve had to limit our food anyway,” said Valdivia. “So basically you are kind of starving us, Kaiser.”

I recently produced a radio drama on what life was life before we had child labor laws, and how they came about. If you’re interested, it’s called “Florence Kelley, The Children’s Champion.”

I think it’s more accurate to say that a brain refusing to bring up a certain memory, is what makes it a repressed memory. “Recovering” a repressed memory can happen as part of trauma therapy, or it might happen by itself years later.

Trauma itself causes incredible changes in the brain, in some very non-intuitive ways. The brain has a number of different strategies for protecting the person, the “self”, from unnecessary suffering, and it doesn’t let go of those defense mechanisms until “it” feels safe to do so.

Honestly, out of all of the ways that the brain can respond to trauma, repressed memories is one of the simplest and easiest things to understand.

The fact that false memories can also be demonstrably created… Well, that muddies the waters a bit, it makes things more complicated to sort through, but it’s entirely reasonable to assume that there is a mechanism for memory repression, and there’s also a mechanism for creating false memories.

Additional info for the lazy: the name of the company is “Gravy Analytics”, hence the name “Gravy Scanner” for this app. It’s a large data broker, and they don’t bother with pesky little details like “informed consent”.

Anyway, they got hacked a month ago, and the hackers threatened to publicly release all the data.

https://slrpnk.net/post/17048112

Most likely, that means you’re clean. On mine, the output is just a white screen with a list of the affected apps… Clicking on one of them takes me to that app’s settings.

It does that one thing, with no explanations or instructions, so it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that it doesn’t show a message to indicate that nothing was found.

From what I read, you can set it up using Bluetooth, and then even use it for other devices like earbud cases, preprogrammed to know when to cut it off. I actually just got one, and just haven’t used it yet. I’ll give it a try and report back.

Chargie can probably solve that problem, since it’s an external hardware limiter. And for those running GrapheneOS, it’s probably the only option available until they get around to adding that 80% charging feature.

Is it? I just installed the Accrescent app store, and don’t see it listed. It has 16 apps listed, including Accrescent itself.

Requirements:

About 300GB clear disk space for the entire planet. Probably an SSD unless you like pain, suffering and watching the slow creep of old age…

Lol, no kidding!

The American Red Cross has a pretty good app for finding, scheduling, and preparing for a donation:

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It’s imperative I get it in their original unedited sound file form and in MP3 as .wav is too big and .ogg could crash certain programs like Vegas Pro.

I always hate it when somebody asks for help on a site like StackOverflow, and some smartass pipes up with “Why are you even trying that, why don’t you try ___ instead?”

I don’t want to be that guy. But I am very, very curious about why it is so imperative that you obtain the actual original audio files. Why would similar sounds not suffice?

For context, I am an audio editor / producer / sound designer / Foley artist, and I’ve run into that same problem, of old sound libraries not existing anymore, and have had to find, or create, my own alternatives. So I do know the struggle, but I don’t know your particular situation.

Jewel spiders!

For what it’s worth: I counted about 85 or 86 “clicks” in 10 seconds. It’s a loud click followed by a quieter click, like as if it’s oscillating towards and away from you. The sound of the click itself is loudest at about 2.6 khz - whether that is simply the sound of friction, or some sort of electrical phenomenon, I don’t know.

The fuzzy area at the bottom half of the spectrogram is the dull roar of distant wind. The clicks themselves show up as spikes, and the intense colors on the right are from where the voice starts speaking. The dark band above 10K is just the data lost from audio compression.

I can’t imagine why they changed the name… (/s)

Looks like it should be available in the US in mid- to late 2024.