#// babes wake up

[m3tth4ws]

live from net side shenanigans

[rickybaby]

10 years since Daniel Ricciardo’s first Red Bull spell – the Australian’s rollercoaster F1 journey since

[yourlocalbadgerscales]

WHY THE LOW QUALITY 😭🙏

[chumpacabra]

Smoke and Mirrors: Chapter 9

Howdy ghouls and ghays and theys, hope y'all are hungry cause we servin' up some BEEF, BOY!

Chapter 9 is HERE.

[ambitiouslyher]

uh YEAH. she’s that girl actually

[chxrry-san]

[guiltyidealist]

new favorite YouTube comment just dropped

[tiredmerdude]

@beforelunacy @mohawkmania

mom come get me, I’m scared

[reees]

wtf is going on with barça?

[pinguhub]

saw an interview of a stunt jason statham did that went wrong and he ended up driving off a jetty into the black sea and having to try get out of the truck and the top comment is this

but they're wrong. he was a diver at the 1990 commonweath games and i know this bc my mum attended the same games for diving

[markscherz]

Meet the seven new frog species we just named after iconic Star Trek captains!

Artwork by A. Petzold, CC BY-ND 4.0

At the right time of year along rushing streams in the humid rainforests that stretch the length of Madagascar's eastern and northern mountain ridges, otherworldly trills of piercing whistles can be heard.

Are they birds? Insects? Communicator beeps? Tricorder noises?

No, they're little treefrogs!

Boophis janewayae. Photo by M. Vences, CC BY-SA 4.0

Until recently, we thought all of the populations of these little brown frogs across the island were one widespread species, Boophis marojezensis, described in 1994. But genetics in the early 2000s and 2010s showed that there were several species here, not just one.

Now my colleagues and I have shown that they are in fact eight separate species, each with unique calls!

These whistling sounds reminded us so much of Star Trek sound effects that we decided to name the seven new species after Star Trek captains: Boophis kirki, B. picardi, B. janewayae, B. siskoi, B. pikei, B. archeri, and B. burnhamae.

Photos of all new species described by Vences et al. 2024. CC BY-SA 4.0

I subtly and not-so-subtly built some Star Trek references into the paper, but probably the best one is this one:

'Finding these frogs sometimes requires considerable trekking; pursuing strange new calls, to seek out new frogs in new forests; boldly going where no herpetologist has gone before.'

— Vences et al. 2024

There’s a real sense of scientific discovery and exploration here, which we think is in the spirit of Star Trek.

Of course, it doesn't hurt that there are at least two Trekkies amongst the authors (including yours truly). As fans of Star Trek, we are also just pleased to dedicate these new species to the characters who have inspired and entertained us over the decades.

On a personal note, this marks a milestone for me, as it means I have now described over 100 frog species! I am very pleased that the 100th is Captain Janeway's Bright-eyed Frog, Boophis janewayae (if you count them in order of appearance in the paper)—she is probably my favourite captain, and I really love Star Trek: Voyager.

You can read more about the discovery of these new species on my website! You can also read the Open Access paper published in Vertebrate Zoology here.

[theheebiejeebiess]

"I like my... wife"

[cleolinda]

Louisiana students Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson wowed their teachers in 2022 when they discovered a new way to prove the 2000-year-old Pythagorean theorem in response to a bonus question in a high school math contest. But that was only the beginning.

A volunteer at their former school, New Orleans’ St. Mary’s Academy, encouraged them to submit their work on the famous mathematical theory to a professional conference, and in March 2023 they became the youngest people to present at the American Mathematical Society’s Southeastern Sectional conference in Atlanta. Their appearance elicited a wave of media coverage, including a spot on “60 Minutes.” The pair also received symbolic keys to the city of New Orleans and a shout-out from Michelle Obama.

Now Jackson and Johnson, who started college last year, have notched another achievement: authoring an academic paper detailing their original proof — plus nine more. Their work published Monday in the scientific journal American Mathematical Monthly.

Bonus:

[vulpinesaint]

everybody come here and take my quiz rq we're just gonna take a normal walk through a normal garden

[hoziersong]

starting a collection

[lucabyte]

something about marine biology and benefits

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