Nature enthusiast.
Santa Barbara
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The blunthead slug snake isn't like other snakes. This nocturnal reptile, which primarily feeds on slugs and snails, eats using a technique called mandibular sawing. To slice off the indigestible parts of prey, this species slides its jaws back and forth like a saw!
ALT A photo of a blunthead slug snake curled up on a green leaf. The snake is brownish in color with disproportionately large eyes and a short, blunt face.
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imagine having this thesis - "i think maybe one day this team can transform the company and it could work out well in the long term" - and expressing it with two-week call options, love it
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The one thing I always took for granted when I was younger is time. “Oh I won’t worry about that, I have plenty of time”, etc. Before you know it, time leaves you in the dust. You blink and a couple of decades have gone by. Action is more important than words, even if you don’t have everything figured out. Make the most of each day. As somebody put so well, “the ‘good ole days’ are happening right now”. Be grateful for this moment you are living today and take a second to celebrate all you’ve accomplished to get to where you are. “Spiral out… keep going!” HAGW 💪🏻
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Meet the ʻIʻiwi! Its specialized beak is perfect for sipping nectar from tube-shaped flowers, and by doing so, it plays an important role in pollination. Once one of the most common Hawaiian birds, it's threatened by human activity.
ALT A photo of an ʻIʻiwi. It is a bright red bird with a long downturned beak. Its wings are black and white.
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As Elon Musk took the helm at Twitter HQ, an ultimatum regarding its culture was communicated to staff: “It would be, in Musk’s words, ‘extremely hardcore.’” vntyfr.com/8m192E4
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Happy pub day to @ZoeSchiffer's EXTREMELY HARDCORE!
Read the jaw-dropping, fly-on-the-wall account of Musk’s Twitter takeover in EXTREMELY HARDCORE, available now!
ALT photo of EXTREMELY HARDCORE book on white marble background with white coffee mug
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The Mi’kmaq name for the great white shark is “Mukumu’k.” The Mi’kmaq are an Indigenous people in the northeastern region of North America, primarily in what is now Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, and Quebec in Canada.
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Something different today. There are few places on earth where evolution is as obvious as it is in the Galapagos, and one of the sights that stunned me the most was seeing Marine Iguanas feed underwater. A clear example of how the Galapagos inspired Darwin. #explore
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A thread of ten free AI tools to support teacher workload or teacher development. I'm quite excited by some of these... #EdTech
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Check out these rare cloud formations today in the Santa Barbara Channel. A ranger captured this while returning to the mainland. These are asperitas clouds, known for their dramatic wave-like appearance on the underside of the cloud. Asperitas translates to “roughness” in Latin.
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David Attenborough is now narrating my life
Here's a GPT-4-vision + @elevenlabs python script so you can star in your own Planet Earth:
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I almost didn’t carve a pumpkin this Samhain, but all day there have been Ravens. They called from the forest on my morning run, flew over me as I hung out the washing and cronked from a tall tree near our house in the afternoon. So this is for you, dear Ravens. #HappyHalloween
ALT Raven Moon pumpkin carving by Kerrie Ann Gardner.
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#DYK not all leeches feed on blood 🩸? Many are predators of invertebrates and some specialize on hunting earthworms🪱
After all, other worms are a perfectly shaped meal for them 🍝
I think this is a species of Orobdella, a group of primarily Japanese leeches that feed on worms
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Watch the solar eclipse with NASA on Saturday, Oct. 14!
We'll have live updates as the "ring of fire" crosses from Oregon to Texas, starting at 11:30am ET (1530 UTC). Send us your eclipse Qs with #AskNASA—and check out what you'll see from your town: go.nasa.gov/48FefSu
ALT A map of the continental United States, depicting where the annular solar eclipse of 2023 can be seen. A thick gray line with orange circles stretches from Oregon to Texas, depicting where and when the "ring of fire" can be seen; thinner lines parallel to it show where a partial solar eclipse will be visible. Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
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Good morning, and say "Hello!" to Raspberry Pi 5! The #Pi5 is ×2–3 faster, has PCIe support, a new RTC, and our own silicon designed in‑house here in Cambridge The everything computer. Optimised, raspberrypi.com/5. More at raspberrypi.com/news/introdu…. #RaspberryPi #RaspberryPi5
ALT The new Raspberry Pi 5 board.
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