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12-06-2019, 02:45 PM | #1 |
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Slime mold is smart?
https://www.sciencefriday.com/segmen...s-slime-molds/ Despite having no brain or neurons and being just one giant goopy cell, these slime molds keep defying our expectations. They can solve mazes, recreate the Tokyo railway network (animation below), learn, and even anticipate events. They can make rational and irrational choices that mirror our own. Not to mention theyre visually stunning too.
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12-08-2019, 08:44 AM | #2 |
I love it when a plan comes together.
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We've been assimilated.
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12-09-2019, 06:13 PM | #3 |
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it may just be a matter of scale. we may be too small to see the overarching intelligence at work around us.
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12-09-2019, 06:45 PM | #4 |
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A-couple-of-days-ago IL ÷ is called an obelus, and TIL use ALT + 246 to type it.
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01-31-2020, 01:56 PM | #5 |
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01-31-2020, 03:22 PM | #6 |
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I've been telling you about poop molecules for years
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01-31-2020, 07:56 PM | #7 |
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I thought that had been poo pooed
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01-31-2020, 10:51 PM | #8 |
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But hospitals use commercial toilets that flush much more violently than home toilets with a tank. They will stir up a lot more aerosols than yours, and the little yours does kicks up keeps your immune system healthy. If you don't feel your toilet is kicking up enough poop particles scrub the toilet with your toothbrush.
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02-01-2020, 08:19 AM | #9 |
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I clean my Bathroom and don't worry about it.
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02-22-2020, 03:45 PM | #10 |
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Today I learned that the word Pączki has a little squiggle on the a, and that squiggle is called an ogonek. Pronunciation of pączki is something like "poonch-key", and the ogonek (which means little tail in Polish) nasalizes the vowel sound.
For the uninitiated, pączkis are a Polish thing - filled heavy donuts eaten on Fat Tuesday, big in Detroit environs -centered around Hamtramck -people will commute quite some distance to get genuine Hamtramck pączkis
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02-23-2020, 11:55 PM | #11 |
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Damn it Monster, between the sliced turkey and the grapes is a vast wasteland of baked Sirens calling dieters to their doom. I have never browsed the section and have no trouble resisting the Siren's call. But today, there was a small table all by it's lonesome near the grapes. This scandalous table piled high with...
It says Lemon, I couldn't tell, it was just cloying sweet. The label say each one is 310 calories, 300 from fat. Hard to believe there is less than 10 calories of sugar.
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02-24-2020, 06:13 AM | #12 |
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Only 300? Those must be paczki lite. They are nasty imo. Especially the (very popular) custard and prune varieties
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02-24-2020, 02:57 PM | #13 |
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I miss read the label, probably from the sugar rush, only 100 calories from fat.
You can see from the label they are lovingly crafted from only the finest pure ingredients DuPont and Monsanto can supply.
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02-24-2020, 04:52 PM | #15 |
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So we find a big enough banana we can build a brain for Commander Data?
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