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A winter bee cluster looks like bees keeping each other warm. The physics suggests the ones on the outside aren't a blanket at all but the part doing the suffering — and that the standard thin-walled wooden hive is what makes clustering necessary in the first place. (opens the original)
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In November 2023, a mechanical engineer at the University of Leeds published a paper in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface that took an established piece of beekeeping doctrine, tested it with the mathematical techniques the building industry uses to assess wall insulation, and concluded that the doctrine had been wrong for about one hundred and twenty years. The paper, published under Derek Mitchell’s name in Volume 20 of the journal, is titled “Honeybee cluster—not insulation but stres
Illinois renamed Asian carp "copi" in June 2022, brought in a branding agency and started selling it to restaurants. The fish had not changed — the state had simply worked out that the only realistic way to cut the population was to make Americans want to eat it. (opens the original)
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On the 22nd of June 2022, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources issued a joint announcement from Springfield stating that the four species of invasive fish it had been trying to remove from Midwestern waterways for the previous four decades would from that day be marketed to the American public under a new name. The four species (bighead carp, silver carp, grass carp and black carp) would collectively be known as copi. According to the launch statement issued through the Invasive Carp Reg
The golden jackal was a Balkan animal in the 1980s and is now breeding as far west as Germany, with individual dispersers reaching the Netherlands, Denmark and Finland. Nobody released a single one — they walked north on their own, into the gap a missing predator left. (opens the original)
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In August 2022, a camera trap on a plateau between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alb, in southwestern Germany, took a series of five pictures of four golden jackal cubs resting together in front of the lens. Two adult jackals had been photographed nearby the day before, and a lactating female earlier in the summer. The cubs were the second confirmed litter of golden jackals ever documented in Germany, following a first litter that had been established through genetic identification of scat sa
France took two dams out of the Loire in 1998 and 1999, when dam removal was still considered eccentric. Atlantic salmon reached spawning grounds upstream within a couple of seasons, and the river is now the longest stretch of free-flowing water in western Europe. (opens the original)
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In June 1998, a demolition crew in a village called Saint-Étienne-du-Vigan, in the volcanic uplands of the Haute-Loire, waited for a small flood so they could safely draw down a reservoir, then blew up the concrete dam holding it back with dynamite. The dam had been sitting across the Allier, which is the Loire’s largest tributary, since 1895. It had been built to supply electricity to a nearby town called Langogne, it was about twelve metres high, and it had no fish pass of any kind, which mean
Two groups of adults were taught the same set of invented characters, one by copying them out by hand and one by typing them. When they were later shown those characters and asked only to recognise them, the handwriting group's brains fired in the regions used for producing speech and movement — as (opens the original)
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The study we are talking about was published in 2008 in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience by Marieke Longcamp and colleagues at the CNRS in Marseille. The design is straightforward. Adults were shown a set of unfamiliar graphic characters they had never seen before. Half of them spent three weeks learning to produce those characters by hand, copying each one repeatedly with a pen on paper. The other half spent the same time learning to produce them on a keyboard. At the end of the training,
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