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Remember that rhubarb leaves are actually poisonous due to oxalic acid (I've seen quotes of 2-5 kg od leaves being a lethal dose). https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/articl…

Here is an alternative read for some of us: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220417-ajvar-the-vegan-...

This article describes perfectly the Netflix catalog...

> Why don’t more plants evolve towards the “grass” strategy? Grasses have a trick: Grass blades grow at the base of the blade and not from elongated stem tips. This low growth poin…

A quick intro into EVSE and why there is no power 'charger' in them, and the space they take is just empty air https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMxB7zA-e4Y

This scene from Cranes are Flying? https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/oqqgcl/this_amazi...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21922504/ Mitonuclear match: optimizing fitness and fertility over generations drives ageing within generations also https://nick-lane.net/wp-conten…

In The vital Question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vital_Question Nick Lane is arguing that the eukaryote symbiotic cell (archea host, bacterial mitochondria symbiot) leads, v…

also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Egg

There are several versions available of Scott Meyers' CPU Caches and Why You care talk: - https://vimeo.com/97337258 - https://www.aristeia.com/TalkNotes/PDXCodeCamp2010.pdf

This youtube series telling the Battle of Midway from Japanese perspective (ie. only using the information available to them)is interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8_vO5z…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENS_Gamal_Abdel_Nasser Mistral class helicopter carrier, payed by Russia, built in France, delivered to Egypt instead due to the War in Donbass. Franc…

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40376072-children-of-rui...

Very much so. Besides adaptation like Human Echolocation ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation ), there is also active research for devices to help. Look at https://en…

3Blue1Brow has a nice video on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD0NjbwqlYw