Let me preface this by saying that, for those who don’t already know, I grow oyster mushrooms at home and have for some time. I had no idea they were vicious hunters and users of chemical weapons! Nature is so much weirder than we can possibly understand.
(Trigger warning: In the article, there are descriptions of the many ways different fungi dispatch their prey. I had no idea!)
Nature is weird!
Very cool.
“The researchers note that the work was done so long ago that they are not even able to identify the hominids that made them.”
I guess that’s one way to avoid citing someone. 
Compared with those of similar weight, people who underwent one of four types of weight loss surgery were 16% less likely to die from any cause, the study found.
“Deaths from cardiovascular disease decreased by 29%, while deaths from various cancers decreased by 43%, which is pretty impressive,” said lead author Ted Adams, an adjunct associate professor in nutrition and integrative physiology at the University of Utah’s School of Medicine.
“There was also a huge percentage drop — a 72% decline — in deaths related to diabetes in people who had surgery compared to those who did not,” he said. One significant downside: The study also found younger people who had the surgery were at higher risk for suicide.
There is so much not understood about this. There are studies showing improvement in type 2 diabetes following bariatric surgery immediately. Prior to any actual weight loss.
Weird stuff. WDKS, man.
An interesting experiment, but lightning rods already work fine and help people.
Maybe the point is eventually to channel the lightning somewhere specific, at someone specific, though?
Don’t cross the streams. That would be bad.
We already got that!
So it isn’t cultural, it’s biology?
I didn’t know that orcas were Italian.
Ye gods, I had not seen that image before.
Holy crap!
Black holes are the source of dark energy.
As a layman, it drops into place perfectly for me. But that’s all the more reason to do the actual research to figure it out!
