New study: bees species that survive in urbanized environments have larger brains.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0296
@futurebird Allow me to play devil's advocate: it's fiiiiiine. We've got stomach acid. We've been doing this for ages. It's fiiiiiiiine
On Marketplace, I explained why those who believe in capitalism should support regulating car bloat:
"For decades, people who buy enormous, heavy cars have been creating societal costs that they aren’t paying for. That’s what’s called a market failure."
https://www.marketplace.org/2024/01/04/the-hefty-costs-of-heavier-cars/
Inside a leaf nest of Polyrhachis robsoni rattle ants. The big one's the queen.
Arthropod Photo of the Week: January 3, 2024
Ant tending treehopper nymphs
Ectatomma tuberculatum
Hymenoptera: Formicidae
By Tom Myers, Kentucky, USA
#arthropodPOTW
#entomology #insects #photography
From the archives: How To Bike Through a New England Winter
https://mass.streetsblog.org/2022/12/05/how-to-bike-through-a-boston-winter
@alexwild I get that some instances of plagiarism are less malicious or intentional, but I feel like calling any of it run-of-the-mill isn't the best choice of words. We don't want to normalize carelessness or dishonesty
@DaveMWilburn @futurebird I've read (somewhere, who knows when) it's the latter. I'm surprised that excavating falls to the older workers, though. Maybe digging is more dangerous than I'd have thought?
@GatekeepKen @w7voa and that makes it right to supply Russia so they can keep bombing Ukraine? Dumb fuck
@gwensnyder I thought he died of ligma
@w7voa I'd love to see the aid for Israel decoupled from the rest
@rodhilton
Didn't know he was dead. Less gooooooo
lol god DAMN this is the entirety of the White House statement on the death of #henrykissinger.
This is about as close as I think you could get to Biden publicly saying "fuck that guy I'm glad he's dead."
@alexwild
If people park in bike lanes, maybe APD can get off their asses and get themselves some ticket funding. Sounds like a win-win
@capntransit @streetsblognyc @nycmayor
"Cops charged the driver, identified as Hector Yepes, on Friday with failure to yield to a pedestrian and failure to exercise due care"
I'll never understand how this isn't, say, manslaughter. It's no big deal to kill someone as long as you do it while driving a vehicle, apparently.
I suppose it's worth asking my extensive mastodon network: I'm trying to buy a ticket to Austin City Limits this saturday. Anyone looking to sell a day pass? #acl
Here's a short video from Latvia showing why you shouldn't treat railway lines as a playground.
This is possibly the funniest social insect study of all time. To keep them from eating all the food, female wasps stuff male wasps head-first into empty cells and threaten to sting them if they try to escape.