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Biggest potato
“They’ve named the potato Doug, after the way it was unearthed”
“near Hamilton, New Zealand”
“But it’s quite possibly the largest potato on record. When the couple lugged it into their garage and put it on their old set of scales, it weighed in at a remarkable 7.9 kilograms (17.4 pounds). That’s equal to a couple of sacks of regular potatoes, or one small dog.”
“The current Guinness World Records entry for the heaviest potato is a 2011 monster from Britain that weighed in at just under 5 kg. The couple say they’ve applied to Guinness to have Doug recognized and are waiting to hear back.”
(https://apnews.com/article/oddities-lifestyle-new-zealand-gardening-a6ce44c5937ff8e180554fe4e27169da)
Update: Guinness World Records determined it to be a tuber of a gourd and rejected the application.
(https://apnews.com/article/worlds-largest-potato-doug-a440afd3c656018c585078ed3ac18970)
Credit: Elizabeth C. Turner
“Fossil discovered in northwestern Canada could rewrite the early history of animal life — but some palaeontologists are not convinced it’s real.”
“Most major groups of animals — including arthropods, molluscs and worms — first appear in the fossil record during the Cambrian explosion, 541 million years ago. But according to a paper published today [28 July 2021] in Nature, sponge fossils from northwestern Canada could be 350 million years older, significantly pushing back the date of Earth’s earliest-known animals.”
“It’s such a big claim that you really have to eliminate all the other possibilities.”
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Cellular fluidics
“A technological platform has been developed in which millimetre-scale cubes are assembled into 3D structures that control capillary action — enabling programmable fluid flows and modelling of a range of fluidic processes.”
“In this platform, millimetre-scale cubes known as unit cells have internal architectures that draw up fluids through capillary action. The combined capillary action of stacked unit cells produces a vertical flow of fluid.
“The authors report that a tree-like structure built from the unit cells continuously delivers liquid from a reservoir to the tips of the branches, where the liquid evaporates — a process that mimics transpiration in natural trees.”
“The flow of liquid in natural structures, such as tree leaves or soil, depends on the arrangement of the components in those structures3. Cellular fluidics is therefore the perfect tool with which to mimic such liquid flow, because the unit cells can be arranged in the same way as can the building blocks of the natural structures.”
“…the authors derived a theoretical model that describes how strut diameter and the number of cells coupled together influence the overall capillary action of a cellular fluidics system.”
Article (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01708-2)
“blackwater photographers dive at night into icy, pitch-dark depths.”
(https://mymodernmet.com/wu-yung-sen-blackwater-photography/)
“Experts think climate change is to blame”
“Diarists have keenly chronicled the comings and goings of cherry blossoms for centuries—records from Kyoto, the old capital, date back 1,200 years. This precious, ancient data set reveals a disturbing trend: in recent decades, the blossoms have emerged much sooner than they once did.”
“The cause is little mystery. In deciding when to show their shoots, cherry trees rely on temperatures in February and March.”
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Termites & Ants
“Termites and Ants, both protected by a row of their soldiers in a stand-off, without fighting”
(https://reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/liuvpt/termites_and_ants_both_protected_by_a_row_of/)
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