Over my whole lifetime, a persistent reason for public support of the UK's (imperfect) socialised healthcare service, the NHS, has simply been looking over the pond to see the appalling shitshow of US provision.

(On the assumption, of course, that this moth has been doing the same thing as Biston betularia since the industrial revolution kicked-off ...)

The classic dilemma: does it want the short-term benefit of fossil fuel soot providing camouflage, or the long-term benefit of fossil fuel abandonment, reduced sooty camouflage, but less climate change ravaging its habitat?

A little treat for you @bas.ac.uk from #ScreenJunkies ... youtu.be/2DuX1l-clGY

Shai-Hulud!

Thinking back to *that* rat, I'm only surprised that the AI didn't put a massive penis on Jupiter.

Not at all surprised at all that it was a predatory journal turned the handle on this one.

Thanks for this! It's useful to see. NERC seems hovering at ~25% (with noise).

There might be a glitch with the total line as it starts higher than any of the others. Or I'm misunderstanding the "mean".

And Christmas is just around the corner too ...

Sage advice.

Excellent photo-alignment going on here too!

I assumed this was from @theonion.com's #OurDumbCentury at first ... 🤦‍♂️

Reassuring that the Republican Party has safely put democracy out of the reach of the electorate.

(I wondered for a moment if the fictional #KingKong owed anything to these fictional mountains, but I clearly didn't know my modern mythology - King Kong lived on Skull Island in the Indian Ocean, somewhere that I don't think made it onto any of James Rennell's maps)

Apparently the idea of the mountain range originated with an explorer, #MungoPark, whose work Rennell used to make his maps. But his interest in the mountains stemmed from his theory that the #NigerRiver terminated in an #EndorheicLake. A strange - but great - footnote on a giant of oceanography.