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Today I learned that dinosaur secondary brains are not actually a thing
TIL people used to think that dinosaurs had a 2nd brain
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TIL about Planet Nine, a hypothetical ninth planet in the outer region of the Solar System.
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Deutsch-österreichische Grenze: Kontrollen waren illegal
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"einen Mann mit jüdischem Familiennamen in in ihre Stichprobe aufnehmen."
Was soll das implizieren? Dass sie dem Mann seinen jüdischen Namen ansehen?
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Chickens
Animal Farm, the good ending
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NASA Shuts Off Voyager Science Instrument, More Power Cuts Ahead to Keep Both Probes Going
Oh noo I'm literally using Voyager to browse Lemmy
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how things become science
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More shockingly, three Indian researchers published a research paper that cited the preprint on the fake disease in Cureus, a peer-reviewed journal published by Springer. It was subsequently retracted.
lol
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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...
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God I hope they don't flood Lemmy
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Good one
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I LIKE CORN!
I wonder how come, since C4 plants, such as corn, have high water-use efficiency
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TIL about the three types of locomotion in terrestial vertebrates: plantigrade, digitigrade and unguligrade
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Damn, good point. Couldn't come up with a counter-example so just copy/pasted off of Wikipedia verbatim lmao Look out for tomorrow's TIL when I look up what that type of locomotion is called lol
Actually, I'm really at a loss at what to call this paraphyletic group; tetrapods come to mind but they technically still include snakes...
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German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal
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Source?
In 2019, German prosecutors charged then-CEO Herbert Diess, Chair Hans Dieter Pötsch and former CEO Martin Winterkorn
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Awesome, let's pump animals full of even more drugs by the billions for the sake of our own taste pleasure
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Quantum Activity Confirmed in Humans
I guess "microtubules create consciousness trough quantum gravity" is the Nobel loreate version of dementia
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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.
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I never actually read it as a dig at "elderly" scientists but I think you're right haha
Tbf I think it's supposed to be understood more conceptually as seeing how many things we take for granted as being outside the realms of possibility have just not yet been tackled the right way.
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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
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TIL that "G.I." originally referred to galvanized iron
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So according to my understanding, all of those alternate interpretations are just that, (mis)interpretations of the original galvanized iron applied to people. So I'd say your specific interpretation is not more wrong than any of those mentioned.
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[Opinion] The Brief – Huawei is not the issue
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Don't think "traitor" makes sense applied to the Chinese. The op-ed is indeed all over the place, don't think it articulates its point very well
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Männerparfum: Höchste Zeit, über Geruchsbelästigung zu sprechen!
Auf Platz eins der schlimmsten Geruchsbelästiger fallen ja wohl eindeutig alte Frauen mit Anosmie
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I love how length and time are unfathomably small to even conceptualize, then energy is just like car