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This week’s Feedback column (that I compose) in New Scientist publication has 4 sections. Here are the starts of each of them:
- Earthquake snack — The standard reason “the dog ate my homework” has a brand-new equivalent: “the earthquake chewed my data.” …
- Strained fishy pun — Andrew Knapp and associates have actually contributed to the history of stretched biological puns. Knapp is a postdoctoral scientist at the Natural History Museum, London. His co-punners are spread throughout the UK and the United States. In show, they composed a paper called “How to Tuna Fish: Constraint, convergence, and integration in the neurocranium of pelagiarian fishes”. It inhabits a number of pages in the journal Evolution….
- Parsnippety Bonobos —Parsnips have actually ended up being a go-to tool for screening and controling the feelings of bonobos. Jonas Verspeek and Jeroen Stevens at the Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp in Belgium tape-recorded video of 38 sessions in which they handed bonobos either a grape, which was tasty, or a parsnip, which was okay, however not as tasty. Verspeek and Stevens had actually previously evaluated the relative deliciousness, to bonobos a minimum of, of grapes and parsnips…
- Fashionable Superpower — Feedback continues its look for unimportant superpowers – capabilities to carry out tasks that might appear ordinary to their wielders, however difficult to most other individuals. Some such powers might be innately vibrant, and 2 examples pop out from the swirl of reactions to Feedback’s invite to help brochure them. The innately vibrant Diane Tunnell says: “I have the ability to carry a colour shade accurately in my head so I don’t have need for swatches when looking for a match.” …
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