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A new study breaks down the biomechanics of one of the marine world’s most unusual hunting behaviors. Thresher sharks have one of the strangest body plans of any fish, with almost half their body comprised of a scythe-like tail. It had long been suspected that that they use this tail is a whip to stun ... Read More "Here’s how thresher sharks whip their tails back and forth" »

“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs' Matt Sebastian, airs 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern every Sunday on Sirius XM satellite radio's 1st Wave. The post Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (2/18/24) appeared first on Slicing Up Eyeballs.

Statically typed languages are also good for ad-hoc scripting. This article is part of a short series of articles that compares ad-hoc scripting in Haskell with solving the same problem in Python. The introductory article describes the problem to be solved, so here I'll jump straight into the Haskell code. In the next article I'll give a similar walkthrough of my Python script. Getting started # When working with Haskell …

It is time to celebrate! Today marks the 94th anniversary of Pluto’s discovery by Clyde Tombaugh on February 18, 1930, at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. The observatory is celebrating with its annual I Heart Pluto event this weekend, featuring a Pluto pub crawl, a talk by writer Diana Gabaldon, and various science talks and demonstrations. In honor of this anniversary, National Geographic has published an article titled, “Did …

This week’s theme: Jazz With Strings. Featured artists include Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles McPherson, Bill Evans, Kronos Quartet, Ben Webster, Sonny Stitt, Cannonball Adderley, Clifford Brown, Sarah Vaughan.The post Podcast: Jazz Vinyl With Strings first appeared on jazzcollector.com.

A gedetineerde (literally: detained) is a prisoner. You may find them in prison records. From the late 1800s, some prisons took photos of their prisoners. You can find those in the records of the prison, usually kept at the archives in the provincial capital. You can also check the secret register of released prisoners. Six prisoners in the prison in The Hague, 1890. Call no. 484, Records of prisons The …

WWW: Robocop, The Sea Wolves, Sign of the Gladiator, and The HillROBOCOP (1987) --- Outlaw action thriller they’d not dare today, Robocop silly on surface, a title giving exclamation to that, but don’t confuse with safe spandex served over twenty years past (really, that many?). Robocop runs rapid, tawdry in the cut-price doing. Used to be flummoxed by those calling the eighties a golden era, or “last” golden era, but …

This photo is one of Michael James Schneider’s series on airline passengers. Hello from Austin! I’m here until Thursday, where I’m attending and speaking at the Civo Navigate North America conference. The post I won this prize today appeared first on The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.

According to Neil Cohn, contemporary comics viewers follow eight protocols for determining viewing paths: “Go to the left corner.” “If no top left panel, go to either the highest and/or leftmost panel.” “Follow the outer border.” “Follow the inner border.” “Move to the right.” “Move straight down.” “If nothing is to the right, go to the far left and down.” “Go to the panel that has not been read yet.” …

My wife and I moved our family back to Cincinnati last summer, after having lived in Nashville for 7 years. Now that we have kids, we felt it was important to be closer to our families. And we have a lot of really great friends in the Cinci area, too. It’s been a good move overall, with one exception: Cincinnati has a significantly worse menswear scene. While Nashville’s not known …

From Hall Funeral Home, Casco, Maine https://www.hallfuneralhome.net/obituaries/Daniel-R-Allen?obId=30710777#/obituaryInfo Daniel R. Allen Obituary"NAPLES-Daniel R. Allen, 68, of Naples, died Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024 at Mercy Hospital in Portland, surrounded by his family.He was born on July 17, 1955, in Beverly, MA, a son of Stanley E. and Mary (Horgan) Allen, Jr. He attended local schools, graduating from Hamilton High School.After high school, Dan enlisted in the US Army and served for three …

“It’s okay if you think curling is boring. It’s kind of a smart people sport.” — On a shirt we saw in Fairbanks Curling… and I don’t mean your tresses at the beauty salon… is a popular sport in Fairbanks… a sport with which we were not familiar. Some of our friends from Wisconsin (that’s you, Kari!) were avid curlers, but we’d never seen a game. In advance of our …

(George the Gnome Barbarian.)Mere weeks after D&D turned 50 years old, DunDraCon 47 was held (should have been #49, exception years were DunDraClone in 1982 and the Covid shutdown year 2021), showing the gaming convention's roots with the world's most popular role playing game.Friday night has been Arduin night for me at the con. Four of the past five conventions I've run a variety of places in Dave Hargrave's world …

Late last year, I put together a list of ten "Non-English Detective Novels That Need to Be Translated" from Europe, Asia and the Americas, but, as noted in the introduction, the list could be entirely filled with the Japanese titles Ho-Ling Wong has discussed on his blog – enough to put together a top 100. One of those intriguing-sounding detective novels Ho-Ling has discussed over the years is Meiji dantodai …