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The name Bakiribu waridza derives from Kariri words: bakiribú (“comb”) and waridzá (“mouth”), referring to the animal’s comb-like dentition. The name also honors the Indigenous peoples native to the Araripe region, Brazil.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The name Bakiribu waridza derives from Kariri words: bakiribú (“comb”) and waridzá (“mouth”), referring to the animal’s comb-like dentition. The name also honors the Indigenous peoples native to the Araripe region, Brazil.
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This would also open up an under-explored angle in Star Wars' setting: how does the spacefaring necessary in a galaxy-spanning polity affect how people behave?
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 AM
This would also open up an under-explored angle in Star Wars' setting: how does the spacefaring necessary in a galaxy-spanning polity affect how people behave?
I dig this: what makes sub films work for me is the way the inherently hostile environment outside the vessel turns it into an isolated social microcosm & a pressure-cooker for characters' personalities to spark conflict. [I think of IKIRAE XB-1 (1963), for example.] bsky.app/profile/robe...
I think a sci-fi film about a submarine mission to search for signs of life under Europa's ice would be an interesting idea; a combination of two surprisingly similar settings - submarines and spaceships.
November 9, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I dig this: what makes sub films work for me is the way the inherently hostile environment outside the vessel turns it into an isolated social microcosm & a pressure-cooker for characters' personalities to spark conflict. [I think of IKIRAE XB-1 (1963), for example.] bsky.app/profile/robe...
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Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
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Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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regular reminder that when i say something is my *favorite* that is distinct from saying it is *the best*.
October 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
regular reminder that when i say something is my *favorite* that is distinct from saying it is *the best*.