Sun Burnt Steak

Slow-motion videos reveal tree frogs making some of the most dramatic landings in nature.

Learn more: scim.ag/4gTAurn

A dim blue sky with a crescent Moon in the upper left and a bright dot of Venus to the right (so the curved part of the Moon is pointing toward Venus)

An over-saturated image of the Moon in the middle with bright Venus on the lower right and dimmer Saturn on the upper left

Venus and the Moon looking lovely tonight! (And fainter Saturn nearby)

Smallpox was a devastating illness, but it was also vulnerable to human ingenuity because:

1. It only infected people...it couldn't hide in animals.
2. It's a DNA virus, which makes its genome much more stable, and its mutation rate slower.
3. It was very clear when someone had smallpox.

Frogfish reveals how it evolved the “fishing rod” on its head Specialized neurons have evolved to make the “bait” wiggle like prey.

Frogfish reveals how it evolved the “fishing rod” on its head arstechnica.com/science/2024...

Christmas Connections!!
I made three for you…

Easy
connectionsplus.io/game/36m0IW

Medium
connectionsplus.io/game/njLHSk

Hard
connectionsplus.io/game/I3vUHi

Moon xkcd.com/2809

Young crow screaming at its parent from a few inches away, demanding to be fed. They are perched on the edge of a stone bird bath with green hosta leaves in the background

Young crow screaming at its parent from a few inches away, demanding to be fed. They are perched on the edge of a stone bird bath with green hosta leaves in the background

Young crow screaming at its parent from a few inches away, demanding to be fed. They are perched on the edge of a stone bird bath with green hosta leaves in the background

Young crow screaming at its parent from a few inches away, demanding to be fed. They are perched on the edge of a stone bird bath with green hosta leaves in the background

1. "Feed me"
2. "FEED ME"
3. "Is this thing on?!"
4. "FEEEEEEEED MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I'm DYINGGGG OF HUNGERRRRRR"
🪶

Reskeet with an iconic fictional band

A Steering Council notice about PEP 703 (Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython) Posting for the whole Steering Council, on the subject of @colesbury’s PEP 703 (Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython). Thank you, everyone, for responding to the poll on the no-GI...

Wait Python is killing the GIL?

Sometimes I feel like people are deliberately keeping things from me.

It’s weird when a calculation involving astronomical quantities unexpectedly gives a suspiciously normal number like “6”

Why did I read first two lines like the paradise city song

Remember, there are no nuclear-energy free zones on earth because the sun's radiation is everywhere and comes from nuclear fusion.

Daily mammal fact: 🧪

The world's largest bat is the giant golden crowned flying fox. Weighing 1.4kg with a >5ft wingspan they are big bois.

The smallest bat is Kittis hog nosed bat. At 1.2 inches long and <2g they are one of the smallest mammals in the world 🥺❤️

📷David Heucherlin, Yushi Osawa

No, I don’t even know him. Maybe I am just lucky one