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Comment · 1 year ago
From the article:

“It’s not the first cell, it’s not the first microbe, it’s not the first anything, really,” said Greg Fournier, an evolutionary biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Some of them can, if they are in good physical condition. There's a reason why there haven't been any females who swam across until now.
Comment · 2 years ago
From the article:

'On Vancouver Island—about 10 times closer to the mainland—the genetic diversity of any future grizzly population shouldn’t be a problem. As we’ve seen, “there’ll be males coming over to mix up the genes,” McLellan says. And now, perhaps, the odd female too."'

Comment · 2 years ago
By that definition, horses that were introduced to North America by humans in 16th century are not invasive because they existed in North America 10,000 years ago.
Comment · 2 years ago
Watch the video - this roundabout's islands are designed to be driven over by semis and trailers. (Hopefully the drivers of those vehicles know that).
Comment · 2 years ago
Reminder to turn off f.lux or "night light" or "night shift".

My score was at 98th percentile, and dropped to 75th after I remembered I had a blue light filter on.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
They aren't exactly passing the collection plate around. It's much more transactional:

"So you had to have a special kind of paste before you went to go practice your Yogic Flying, and the paste cost, like, $150, and the Yogic Flying cost thousands of dollars to learn, and then your badge to get into the dome to practice the group meditation cost $100 a month."

"It cost thousands of dollars because Maharishi said that Americans don't value things unless they pay a lot of money for them."

Comment · 2 years ago
I assume you never heard of Roman Protasevich before the plane incident?

Navalny on the other hand has done many notable things and was in the news all the time before his death. His is the first name you think of when you think of Russian opposition. This is not a valid comparison.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
"For instance, in Guyana (South America) it's ⱯI, and in Australia, IⱯ"

That's a joke, right?

Comment · 3 years ago
If this is real, what about this discovery that made it happen now?

Is it a case that some technology is now available that unlocked this? Or is this trying something and seeing if it works?

Could this discovery have been made 10-20 years ago?

Comment · 3 years ago

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