Ex-advisor to professional killers, ex-associate international arms merchants, lapsed physicist, wannabe writer, victim of overeducation, paused dromomaniac.
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined May 2012
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Otters are mustelids which means they're crazy and fearless and just don´t care. Although harmless in the wild, giant Amazon river otters are said to be highly dangerous in captivity, and Indian smooth coated otters are known to gang up on fishermen and maul/drown them to death.
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Mind-blowing. I just learned that Samurai, Conquistadors, Ottomans, and Aztecs fought one another.
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Sometimes, #birds make errors in flight. In this video, many Yellow-headed blackbirds crash into the earth, seemingly after taking evasive manoeuvres to avoid a predator. They aren't falling but FLYING down at speed. Video from Cuauhtémoc, #Mexico... youtube.com/watch?v=iJqdmkjS…
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Algodones sand treader cricket, photographed with a backlight to make it fluoresce.
(Photo Alice Abela)
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Man attacked by gang of otters, bitten 26 times: 'I thought I was going to die' trib.al/x47YHVU
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I couldn't figure out where the comma(s) in "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" should go, so I hit myself in the face.
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'Australia should simply pay to gear up the US companies to build a third Virginia a year. It so happens that we have an authoritative and fresh quote for the price of doing that: US$1.5–2 billion ($2.1–2.8 billion)' writes Bradley Perrett bit.ly/3D5F94N
David Bofinger🌻 retweeted
1) Utilitarians and deontologists actually agree about most things.
It's fun to debate philosophical puzzles like the trolly problem, but these are unrealistic edge cases.
In real life..
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Map shows how confident people are across the EU that other people will do the right thing. In central Europe trust is a bit higher but we also see a difference between old East and West Germany. Source: buff.ly/2XkxC3h
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Animated map shows the rise and fall of communism. Source: buff.ly/3CWeJ6a