Please appreciate this cartoon Gary Larson made after Jane Goodall’s passing earlier this month, thank you
“The queens allow the M. structor sperm to enter their eggs, but at some point they remove their own genes from the egg’s nucleus to prevent fertilization, thereby ensuring the egg develops into a male and not a sterile female worker.”
https://www.science.org/content/article/ant-queen-lays-eggs-hatch-two-species
Did you know Signal automatically strips EXIF metadata from every image you send? A quick way to "sanitize" a photo before posting it publicly is to forward the picture to your own "note to self" chat—Signal will strip the metadata and give you a clean copy.
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“Women in Japan and Italy spend about three more hours in unpaid house and care work a day than men, whereas in Sweden and Denmark, the difference is 0.8 and 0.9 hours, respectively. In South Korea, the country with the lowest birth rate in the world, gender norms are so rigid and the division of labor so unequal that women have begun to reject marriage and childbirth altogether, part of a growing movement known as 4B.”
https://19thnews.org/2025/08/fertility-rates-traditionalism-research/