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An animal I didn't see took the acorn that it buried in my 5th floor balcony flower pot in October
(sh.itjust.works)
This is a followup of: https://sh.itjust.works/post/48867881
Photo description: The acorn is missing now in the hole the animal made in the remnants of the Edelweiss that died last year in the flower pot with red houseleek and some grass coming out. The grass has flowers now and the housleek grew bigger, as the winter is over.
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Bitten by snakes 200 times – on purpose: US man’s quest to help deliver new antivenom
(www.theguardian.com)
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This is an organic situation like, im just posting. Let's talk Disasters
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Local hospital wants to make it really sure nobody is taking the shortcut to the morgue in the basement...
(discuss.tchncs.de)
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It was a rainy day and I took a small broken off piece home for some macro-photography. This lichen, also called coral lichen or Cladia retipora has a slow-growing, highly absorbent lattice-like structure. The colonies expand at only a few millimeters a year, and normally I find little buds about the size of a golf ball, so to find a granite outcrop with 100+ domes each about the size of a basketball hemisphere was pretty rare. It had just rained too, so they have absorbed a ton of water. In the close-up you can see how the structure interacts with the surface tension of water to hold water droplets within the lattice itself, not just absorbed into the body of the lichen.
This species are unique to my part of the world so its pretty exciting to find such a huge undisturbed colony.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45113604
cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/historymemes/p/806332/coins
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A Starlink satellite broke apart in orbit after suffering an unexplained "anomaly"
(www.scientificamerican.com)
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Not sure how long it had been there! It had no smell 🤔
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