A worm blob behaves as a solid and a fluid, like a ball of dough or a glob of shampoo. It only takes around 10 worms to form a coherent blob. A blob of about 100,000 worms resembles a lump of (red) pizza dough.
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New paintings by Filipino American artist Mikey Yates.
↩︎ Taymour Grahne Projects
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The art collective MSCHF bought a Warhol, created 999 replicas, and is now selling each for $250.
↩︎ CNN
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Something new for highway fencing, retaining walls, or even your home: a wind turbine wall.
↩︎ Moss and Fog
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Managing pests is a big challenge for California’s vintners. Currently trending: rodent control via raptors.
↩︎ Bay Nature Magazine
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Researchers say a radio signal detected in 2019, which seemed to be coming from the star closest to the Sun, was not from aliens.
↩︎ Nature
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In the first nine months of this year some 2,200 people were kidnapped for ransom, more than double the roughly 1,000 abducted in 2020. Perhaps a million children are missing school for fear that they will be snatched.
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More than 100,000 people have had their eyes scanned in return for free cryptocurrency.
↩︎ Ars Technica
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License plate readers are reshaping private security in American neighborhoods—”another step toward mass suburban paranoia.”
↩︎ The Washington Post
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Micrometeorites—most under 0.05 centimeters—found on the tops of buildings and photographed by Jon Larsen.
↩︎ Colossal
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