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The puffin is the latest addition to more than 180 known species—many of them sharks, corals, and other marine animals—that emit a luminous glow.
The fact that so many marine animals biofluoresce "tells us organisms are using light in ways we don't even see," John Sparks, curator of fishes at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Nov 16, 2024
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A bioluminescent tide hit Los Angeles a couple of years ago, and I swam in the ocean around midnight, with the waves illuminated neon blue, as well as the water around my body, and even the wet sand like little explosions as I walked. I imagined being eaten by a neon shark. My hope is to swim in bioluminescence beneath the aurora borealis someday.
Dec 19, 2023
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http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/florida-bioluminescence-reveals-worlds-oldest-anus
Feb 7, 2025
theyre weird and beautiful and smart and change colour. I loved them anyway and then I read Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life and I loved them even more, as well as other intelligent cephalopods like colour changing cuttle fish. Learning about how they change colour, essentially evolving two different types of biological pixels in their skin, is unbelievable. It doesn’t sound real, its like real life magic.
Mar 14, 2024
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Python!
Honestly very hard for me to get into - I have ZERO coding knowledge and nothing I could really latch onto - knowledge transfer is how I learn. But https://futurecoder.io/ is great (after lots of Redditing)
Aug 18, 2024
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I read that happiness is when your expectations falls below the reality. A new mind project for April. Good prognosis.
Apr 7, 2024
Apparently the Holiday's Least Boring Trend... from Japan!
Except it's called the Jimi festival (started in 2014) by a group of adults at Japanese lifestyle site Daily Portal Z. The idea is "we kind of wanted to participate in the festivities of Halloween, but were too embarrassed to go all out in witch or zombie costumes." Like "Someone who has spilled coffee all over himself" or "Shop attendant trying really hard to look away as you enter your PIN number." That'd be me!
Oct 21, 2024