it’s always an eye-opener when you think of ancient egyptian art, we sort of automatically consider it semi-primitive what with the stretched proportions and awkward poses of the paintings and reliefs. but then you see a bust of Nefartitti and it looks like it was sculpted post-renaissance.
they understood how to make a realistic depiction, but they intentionally didn’t draw that way. I’m assuming it was for symbolic or ritual reasons. humans for millions of years of prehistory “got it,” or at least some of them. some cave painters used perspective not seen again in their part of now-europe until the renaissance.
“The Cape bee clones don’t do any work inside those hives because they’ve become reproductive,” Oldroyd said. “They just strut around with this attitude like, ‘Yeah, you’re going to work for me.’ It very quickly leads to the collapse of the hive. As individuals, these clones are quite dysfunctional, so you’d expect them to peter out. But they’re a lot like the cells in a tumor in this regard — it doesn’t matter if every clone is healthy, so long as enough of them are around to exploit the host.”
The Cape bee workers that take part in this parasitic behavior are the genetically identical descendants of a single worker that lived in 1990, according to Oldroyd. This single lineage of clones is responsible for the collapse of 10% of African lowland honeybee colonies every year.
one of my old school buddies got a job at a McDonald’s drive thru so he could deal acid at a place that wasn’t his parents’ home and was convenient for his clients without him having to drive all over town. it was a win for everyone.
doubtless, this happy meal went to the wrong car by mistake.
Radioactive hybrid terror pigs have made themselves a home in Fukushima’s exclusion zone
Scientists have uncovered a new threat to humanity emerging in the area surrounding the former Fukushima nuclear power plant: indestructible radioactive hybrid terror pigs.
Boffins boast of ‘slidetronics’ breakthrough enabling binary switch just two atoms thick
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Compared to the switches that power a modern processor, it’s clear to see why the team has trumpeted its work as a breakthrough: where state-of-the-art examples today are around a hundred atoms on a side, giving a total volume of one million atoms, the switch Ben Shalom and colleagues created is two atoms in total.
The technology, dubbed “slidetronics”, is built of stacked layers of single-atom boron and nitrogen sheets arranged in a repeating hexagonal grid – much like graphene, the oft-praised but rarely commercialised wonder material made from single-atom sheets of carbon. Layered carefully enough, the two slide in order to perfectly overlap half of their atoms – opposites to opposites.
