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Watched the new Naked Gun movie. It's been a long time since I saw the original so I can't really compare it, but I thought it was a pretty fun watch. A lot of "blink and you'll miss it" gags and classic "dad humor" in there that I really enjoy.

Man I got sick or of nowhere, that sucks. I mean, I could tell that something was off yesterday, low energy, but today I got hit like a truck.

Imagine being so bad at jerking off that you need instructions

8 yr old Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The butterflies he had tended as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. When he released them into the wild, they would fly right back to him. Was it possible they actually remembered him?

Jo wrote a letter to an entomologist at Georgetown University, Dr. Martha Weiss. He asked if she could help him design an experiment, and she said yes.

Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70% of them still avoided the scent. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis, yet the memory survived anyway. Then he bred them.

The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to lavender their grandmother had been taught to fear.

Jo presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.

A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.

yahoo.com/news/science/article

#Butterflies #Science #Nature #Memory

had to make a brand new emuNAND because some shit happened to mine when i updated atmosphere, no idea what but it is completely fucked. luckily, the only thing i really lose are my mario party superstars and tears of the kingdom save files so... nothing that important.

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ancient pic of ol' sushi (she's an old woman at my friend's house now)

alright i gotta re-mod my switch now because i've gotta help two friends mod theirs in the next couple days and i can't remember anything

FAITH is the best Christian game and nothing else even comes close.

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