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reimenayee.com
The God of Arepo / a #comic about a farmer who befriends a nothing god (1/13) #art
Cover image. A sun-kissed ancient Roman farmer in a big straw hat sits in a shady spot by the forest besides a rustic cairn. Alt text of the following images are from the original short story by Tumblr users writing-prompt-s, sadoeuphemist, stu-pot and sameenbyhat. Significant additions by me are in brackets. Temples are built for gods. Knowing this a farmer builds a small temple to see what kind of god turns up.
November 29, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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yellowstoneten.bsky.social
There is a tongue-in-cheek unit of volume called the Hubble-barn, equal to the volume of a cylinder with cross-sectional area of one barn (100 fm^2 - about the size of a uranium nucleus) and height of one Hubble length (14.4 billion light years).

It works out to three and a half gallons.
mrose.ink Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · Aug 19
Ok folks: what is your favorite fact that you share with people (maybe a bit too) eagerly?
August 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
2. It's the one in the upper left corner.

Crows know. 🪶

A few months ago I reviewed a cool paper about crows' geometric cognition, and I've been eagerly waiting for it to come out ever since.
Fig. 1. Intruder detection task. Two carrion crows were trained to detect an intruder stimulus in an array of six simultaneously presented stimuli. The crows initiated the trial by moving their head in front of the screen whenever a go-stimulus appeared. After a prestimulus period of 200 ms, an array of six stimuli was displayed. The crows responded by pecking on the intruder. In 50% of the trials, the crows were tested with non-quadrilateral background stimuli (top); in this example, the crescent is the intruder among stars. In the other 50% of the trials, the crows were tested with quadrilateral probe stimuli (bottom); in this example, a nonsymmetric quadrilateral is the intruder among symmetric quadrilaterals. Background and probe stimuli appeared pseudo-randomly. All stimuli were individually rotated and scaled in size.
April 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM