Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶9h ago

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Study finds that Nile mosquitoes can be trained to learn that the smell of a popular molecule used to repel them means signals a nearby blood meal.

Like we do when slapping it on said blood meal

Claudio R. Lazzari, David De Luca, Ayelén Nally, Charly Dufour, Clément Vinauger; Associative learning switches DEET valence from aversive to appetitive in Aedes aegypti. J Exp Biol 15 May 2026; 229 (10): jeb251935. doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.251935

#Science #Mosquitoes #UnanticipatedConsequences

Jon UdellSep 15, 2023

"Much later, I learned that the trees we were planting, black spruce, are so combustible that firefighters call them “gas on a stick.”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/opinion/wildfires-treeplanting-timebomb.html

#wildfire #UnanticipatedConsequences

Opinion | What It’s Like to Watch This Year’s Wildfires After Spending a Summer Planting Trees.

I spent a summer putting trees into the ground. Thirty years later, I watched my youthful idealism literally go up in smoke.

The New York Times
Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ❌​May 12, 2017

@munin @tinker Any thoughts to getting small business insurance, banks, etc., to take role in this? Those are forces which can role unanticipated costs into anticipated (and visible) costs, and press for best practices.

Great war story and methds. Plays into a lot of what I'm thinking about #GreshamsLaw, #UnanticipatedConsequences, #HygieneFactors, and #DelayedInformation realisation.