Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below!
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage

::slowly stands while clapping::

Still my favorite explanation of the difference between INT and WIS: int is knowing that Frankenstein is the name of the doctor.

Wis is knowing that Frankenstein was, in fact, the monster

Late night thought:

ChatGPT is rather like the British Museum: Really fun to visit until you start thinking too hard about how it got everything.

@llepodcast.bsky.social , just finished the latest episode, you were awesome as usual. Here’s something for your addition corner. The modern carrot color is itself a propaganda, while it’s probably not true that the color was specifically bred to honor house of Oranje, but later it was claimed to be