Enrique Cobas

2 Followers
23 Following
15 Posts

There are beetles that, when eaten by a frog, crawl through its digestive tract and emerge unscathed from their anus to fight another day. Most with an hour, some in a few minutes.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-beetle-gets-eaten-frog-it-forces-its-way-out-back-door-180975484/

When This Beetle Gets Eaten by a Frog, It Heads for the 'Back Door'

New research details how this Japanese water beetle travels through the bowels of its predator to emerge out the other end, alive and unharmed

Smithsonian Magazine
Sounds like a scanning hole microscope.
Charles Feeney, Who Made a Fortune and Then Gave It Away, Dies at 92

After piling up billions in business, he pledged to donate almost all of his money to causes before he died. He succeeded, and then lived a more modest life.

The New York Times
@adamconover My Oculus Rift is slowly (not so slowly?) becoming a dusty antique and my friends are themselves too busy to borrow it.
@michaelsfuhrer any idea why they do that?
@istathar My daughter has a favorite red blood cell in her crib and my son sleeps with a white one. I've explained to him it crawls around inside his body looking to eat any bad bugs that make him sick.
@michaelsfuhrer Not birds. Jumping doesn't count.
@matthew_d_green for Ignoble Prize contenders?
@KuJoe Hopefully you can keep your employees happy so your executives and board don't start resigning.
I'm gonna keep posting this until one of you fucking boosts it