https://blogs.iu.edu/sciu/2023/05/06/the-longest-sperm-on-earth/

Apparently the female seminal receptacle is also very long. In fact, the increasing length of this receptacle is one of the explanations for the extreme sperm length.

Drosophila females have evolved to fertilize their eggs with particularly long sperm. Only large, healthy males are able to produce large quantities of gigantic sperm, and if a female reproduces with healthy males, her offspring will have genes that make them healthy, too.

There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer? And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's eye.

• The Truth

One is Akansas

Recently learned it's actually "Eagles", not "The Eagles". (For example, take a look at the album covers. There are also documentaries in which they talk about it.)
But even the band themselves will use "the" when it grammatically makes sense. So confusing.

This shit gets me all the time.. '97 is 27 years ago. 27. Checks math, yes.. 27. Surely not? Feels like it's 10 years or so. Checks math.. no, 27.

No thank you

The box art is there, why not use it?
Timing sounds stressful.
But I do break apart pieces that are stuck together, and mix them in with the rest. Feels a bit like cheating otherwise.

(No right or wrong by the way, all just personal preference.)

I'm sorry, TacoButtPlug, but your user name is triggering. Which, I hope is the only reason you picked it. Otherwise, I have questions.

"Hints" is another name for "charades"

Just wanted to comment, cause this community is a bit quiet. But man, I really hate tier lists. Just enjoy what you enjoy.
Like, Unseen Academicals and The Last Hero are some of my favourites.
I haven't read the Tiffany Aching books. Just cause I don't read much YA stuff. Maybe one day... In many discworld groups people really seem to enjoy them. And I've heard they are great for younger readers too.

But looking at the picture there is no road behind them, only the path going up the mountain?

No mate, 11 months too early

Are you familiar with "wasgij puzzles"? Those are puzzles where the box art is just a hint and the actual puzzle image is "what the people in the box art are seeing" or "what happens a few moments from now", there are a few variations. So you don't really know what the image will be.

Looks like flames, so cool!

I first sort out all the edge pieces and make the whole edge. Next, I just rummage through the box looking for starting points. Gradually group similar colours, look for distinctive features. When the easier parts are done, looking at smaller and smaller detail. For large areas of a similar colour, I might line up the pieces in neat rows, sorted by shape.

Here's a progress picture of a 3000 piece jigsaw:

Started with the edge. Then the purple bird and pink flamingo. The sky, zebra's, etc.. There is order in the chaos of pieces on the left. They are grouped by colour.

Last bit of that one, were the elephants. I ended up with a few hunderd grey pieces, but managed to put them together. End result:

I recently got some sorting trays. This is the one I'm currently working on:

Good lighting is very important. And that's about all the "strategy" I got I'm afraid.

Hope you enjoy yourself! Maybe you can share some jigsaws here, if you're comfortable with that. Have fun :)

The sun does not cease to exist at night.

Crossposted this from ![email protected] (Hope this works, still learning.)

Love these puzzles! So many hidden gems in each of them. Completed this one of Hex earlier this year. Anybody else working on one?

This is amazing! I randomly selected somewhere in the middle, and the driver had to jump out of the tram to extinguish a fire and quickly jump back in to carry on.

Never been in this situation, but I would definitely be happy to find all the edge pieces already separated. Always start by sorting the edges, and it's my least favourite part.

Isn't the white flag with the blue cross the russian navy flag?