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HylicManoeuvre

@ HylicManoeuvre @mander.xyz

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  • “Gifted word learner” dogs can pick up new words by overhearing their owners’ talk

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  • It's almost like animal IQ lies on a bellcurve as well

  • Can’t get motivated? This brain circuit might explain why — and it can be turned off

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  • What a shitty clickbait article, "this neural circuit" mentioning it not even once by name.

    It's the VS-VP pathway btw

  • It's always been women in STEM.

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  • I see what you did there

  • Lab mice can now have periods like humans

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  • Exploiting animals in the name of feminism 👏

  • Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway

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  • Court rules Europe can call nuclear and natural gas sustainable investments for its green transition

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  • Nuclear can be green, if its a breeder reactor. Natural gas though...

  • Today I learned that dinosaur secondary brains are not actually a thing

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  • TIL people used to think that dinosaurs had a 2nd brain

  • Berlin police investigate after officer punches Irish activist at protest

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  • Ah well as long as it was subdued, no worries then

  • EU and China at risk from water scarcity via imports of Brazil beef and soy, research finds

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  • GD Vegans and they're rainforest-killing soy milk

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    CDU-Politiker schlägt höhere Reichensteuer im Tausch für Sozialreformen vor

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  • Your terms are acceptable

  • How many do you have atm?

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  • Thanks for reminding me lol

    And I thinks that's still possible until September or so

  • TIL: How the CIA Used Jazz Diplomacy to Cover Cold War Assassinations from Lumumba to Allende

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  • DISEÄSE

  • European countries where the capital is the most visited city

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  • Officially, they don't have one

  • I LIKE CORN!

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  • I wonder how come, since C4 plants, such as corn, have high water-use efficiency

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  • I love how length and time are unfathomably small to even conceptualize, then energy is just like car

  • Spoof-proof random number generator

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  • How do they determine what a "truly" random number is

  • Ach aye, Scottish words for plants

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  • Reminds me of this old 4chan greentext

  • straight sluggin

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  • Invoking snail biology is still a non-sequitur, regardless of the actual truth value of the initial statement

  • straight sluggin

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  • "sexual identities" lmao way to anthropomorphize freaking mushrooms 🤣

    They're called mating types and are not at all comparable to the aforementioned, entirely human, concept

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL domesticated pigeons (Columba livia domestica) are descendants of the rock dove (Columba livia)

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Domestic_pigeon
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL about Swardspeak, the secret gay language used in the Philippines

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swardspeak
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL about Clarke's three laws, the most famous of which is the third: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL about the region-beta paradox, the psychological phenomenon that people can sometimes recover more quickly from more distressing experiences than from less distressing ones

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Region-beta_paradox
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL about silbo gomero, the "Gomeran whistle" historically used on the Canarian island of Gomera to communicate over large distances

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silbo_Gomero
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL about the five modes of snake movement: concertina, serpentine, sidewinding, rectilinear and slide-pushing

    userweb.ucs.louisiana.edu /~brm2286/locomotn.htm
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL about the three types of locomotion in terrestial vertebrates: plantigrade, digitigrade and unguligrade

    vanat.ahc.umn.edu /run/index.html
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL the Scottish term for counter-clockwise is widdershins

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Widdershins
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL that Alabama has by far the highest amount of death row inmates by capita of any US state

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_death_row_inmates_in_the_United_States
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL about Planet Nine, a hypothetical ninth planet in the outer region of the Solar System.

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Planet_Nine
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL about Silphium, aka laser, a plant that was used as a panacea in antiquity and the first species in recorded history to go extinct

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silphium
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL that "G.I." originally referred to galvanized iron

    www.wordorigins.org /big-list-entries/gi
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL that due to a genetic bottle neck, 10% of the population of the pacific atoll of Pingelap has achromatopsia, i.e. only sees in black&white

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pingelap
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL that the forward part of a ship, the forecastle, is pronounced (and sometimes written as) "fo'c'sle"

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Forecastle