So having a foot doesn’t count as having a leg also?

Not artificially, but by taking many photos of differing depths and computationally stitching them together. Various cameras have the in-build ability to automatically take many pictures in sequence with a variable amount of depth (which in itself is calles focus bracketing). And there is software especially designed to then compute a single photo with increased depth of field from a stack.

Wolf spiders are harmless, so there is hardly any incentive to invest in another solution I’d guess…

I wish they weren’t so shy though, it’s really hard to take good photos of them because they are so fast.

It’s because of domestication and growing plants outside of their natural habitat that they get sensitive. Also, apparently some sensitivity is by design:

Modern roses emerged in 1867 with the development of the first hybrid tea, according to the American Rose Society. These varieties tend to have a reputation for being fussy, requiring constant attention.

“The conception is that they’re not tough, that they require spraying, that you have to have the perfect culture. And a lot of that has been breeding; to breed these perfect flowers, but they bred out characteristics that made the rose easy to grow in our backyards,”

(From the OP’s article)

I wish there was a queer MTG group in my city where I could play in. I tried playing with some straight cis dudes once and it was just such a strange experience…

Actually that’s not true, male lions are usually hunting alone and in dense vegetation. Newer studies show that male lions actually hunt as much prey as female lions! It’s just harder for us to track that.

Ooh nice, thanks! Sounds easy enough to get started. Now I would just have to set up the raspberry pi I bought and never actually used for anything :D

Same in Germany. Last year I asked some people who got vaccinated if they think I also should get another shot and all of them told me that I’m not in a vulnerable group (or a caretaker) so I shouldn’t bother. So we basically repeat what we know from the normal flu (influenza) and just vaccinate vulnerable people. I’m not sure if this is the best way to do it, because I think many people die each year of the flu as well. However, death statistics are hard and I couldn’t find any reliable data on this either.

I wish I could finally get into self-hosting. But I fear the steep learning curve. Computer-related hobbies were much easier to pick up for me when I still had a computer-based job because then I could just procrastinate learning Linux or LaTeX stuff :D

We know a lot more about plant metabolism including hormone signalling and various different metabolic pathways and strategies. It just isn’t common knowledge to people outside of plant science. So this is less of a new field to research, but rather something new that science communication has been exploring the last few years.

Hm, I feel like this study does actually fall into the latter “meh” category. Sure, it is great to have the information what molecules in particular control the stomata to open and close. But we do already have so much knowledge of the intricacies of plant metabolism that this is yet just another tiny puzzle piece in the grand scheme of things. So they try to sell their research here as leading to much more open research questions, but I doubt that they actually found any actually new compounds that no one has ever found before.

I would lean more towards focus stacking. If you see for example @alexis_orion’s photos or videos on youtube, you can get even better shots in macro-photography (even handheld!).

Wow, great article!!

Sure, I don’t use the youtube algorithm. You could just use any alternative fronted like grayjay (unfortunately made by this guy above) or newpipe. Then you don’t fall prey to the algorithm but rather have a feed based on your own subscriptions.

Maybe just delete your youtube account? I’ve never even had a youtube account at all and I’m a heavy youtube consumer…

Ah thanks, I needed this to get what the symbols are! :)

Well, many people are busy, but yeah it should usually work. ResearchGate makes this even easier, because you can directly see who is requesting a paper and sometimes as an author you’ve got the paywalled paper already uploaded in researchgate.

If you read the actual paper, you can see that it is indeed a serious study where they try to understand how mosquito feeding and reproductive behavior works.

Wait till it flowers! It has a really nice inflorescence, although I think other Lactuca species are more beautiful overall :)

I doubt it would be hard to actually have better train infrastructure in Europe (and some countries do). For example, as a German, my perspective on this is that our government just doesn’t care to invest in most infrastructure because it isn’t seen as prestigious enough. The only projects that do get build are some shiny new additions that no one needs, like a new train station in Stuttgart that has been in planning for over 3 decades, will cost many billions and has seen huge protests against it from the start till today. But any project that is just basic maintenance, be it for cars or trains, just gets ignored and postponed. The German Autobahn is just as defunct and on the brink of collapse in many parts of Germany as its train network. And our infrastructure ministers have been corrupt and utterly incompetent for many decades now.