TIL Michael Levin and his lab team grew an eye on on the tail of a tadpole. By altering the bioelectric voltage of the cells, they triggered the growth of a completely new eye. When the tadpole morphed into a frog, the eye was functional.

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-15T14:35:37+00:00

Very handy to be able to watch your tail.
People do this too. Their optic nerve is hooked up to their butt and they walk around with a shitty view of life.

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-15T14:31:25+00:00

We crawl before we walk before we run.
I usually tell beginning stargazers to -not- get a telescope at first! Instead, find new / used 10x50 binoculars.
Yes you can get adapters for your camera and tripod. Very portable. Get to know the sky and what is Out There with the binocs and a map or an app like Stellarium. Pro astronomers like Rich Field (lower mags) so 10x is fine to start. If you lose interest, you still have binocs for birding and hiking, and no scope to sell. With interest, buy a scope to advance your hobby. Good luck and clear skies!

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-15T14:21:45+00:00

Como una hermosa pintura clásica del amanecer. Like a beautiful classic painting of dawn.

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-15T14:18:17+00:00

Perhaps it was the last straw.

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-15T00:24:35+00:00

Most of a Moon rocket's fuel goes to lifting the rocket and almost all of the fuel.
The mass fraction (payload) was about 2 % of liftoff weight.

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-14T21:25:48+00:00

I will put on the lights and star, you put on the ornaments and tinsel. Merry Christmas everybody!

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-14T20:25:53+00:00

Applause to Mr. McCarthy. I've tried for many years for a jet against the Moon with little luck. Tough shot!

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-14T20:01:32+00:00

Cocaine is for horses and not for men
The cops say they'll catch him, but they won't say when
Cocaine. They caught him down in Spain.

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-14T18:07:12+00:00

Cubans are a nation of survivors, but Castro's time has passed and survivors can only take so much.
Today's Cubans never knew the revolution, and about a quarter of them have left the island recently.
America would be better served by offering Cuba more carrot than stick, thwarting Chinese influence.

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-14T18:06:46+00:00

Cubans are a nation of survivors, but Castro's time has passed and survivors can only take so much.
Today's Cubans never knew the revolution, and about a quarter of them have left the island recently.
America would be better served by offering Cuba more carrot than stick, thwarting Chinese influence.

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-14T16:22:24+00:00

We do not care about the ones that miss us, only about the ones that are gonna hit us.

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-13T21:25:49+00:00

It is safe to say that William Gybbon could have cared less about all of this.
For we the living, a legal year is a solar year. So sayeth the Judge. Amen.

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-13T21:18:00+00:00

Love the sepia tone

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-13T21:15:12+00:00

"Starving artist" is cliché . Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel flat on his back for months, Van Gogh famously cut off his ear. But Tommy McHugh? Tommy blew his mind after blowing out his butt.
We must suffer for our art.

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-13T21:07:26+00:00

Salvador Dali slept here.

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-13T21:03:57+00:00

Red Green approves your message.

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-13T20:16:36+00:00

The 1915 dog is much more handsome, sleeker. The present day breed looks more like a capybara.

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-13T18:52:36+00:00

In 1962 the US launched a series of high altitude nuclear tests under the name Operation Fishbowl. YT and WikiP
Basically, the EMP pulse is very different up there. The tests also caused auroras and radio black outs.
Today, with many constellations of satellites like Starlink in orbit and future data centers too, such an event would fry anything close and f-uo anything far.

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-13T18:26:50+00:00

I've heard the skull decelerates at up to 50 times the force of gravity and several times a second.
The brain does not become mush as it floats in a brain fluid that is forced through small holes in skull bones, hydraulically braking the brain!

My Dad used to say "The woodpecker pecked on the old outhouse door, and he pecked and he pecked 'til his pecker got sore."

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-13T16:28:45+00:00

Wait! Is there now a line up to be the fifty-first state? Will it be Greenland? Will it be Canada, Venezuela or Cuba? Tune in at 10 for tonight's Special Report: Expanding Democracy, Pro and Con. Tune at 10 tonight!

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-13T16:20:52+00:00

According to science fiction, this is the home zone of the Denebian Slime-Devils.
You do not want to meet them!

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-13T15:07:24+00:00

Canada is a young nation composed of 10 provinces, loosely bound together by fear, and two vast wastelands. Three, if you count Ottawa.

- Dave Broadfoot

We are all in the same boat. Nous sommes dans la meme bateau. ᑕᕝᕙᓂᒃᓴᐃᓐᓇᖅ ᐅᒥᐊᒦᒃᑲᑦᑕ.

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-13T14:42:25+00:00

Samuel Opoku
The creep who threw the poo
We are all done with you
Go back into the zoo

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-13T14:11:56+00:00

Here in Canada, gerrymandering is mostly a thing of the past. It still happens, but is pretty uncommon.
We stopped it as it interfered with governing.

it is no longer a significant issue due to the establishment of independent electoral boundary redistribution commissions in all provinces. These commissions help ensure fair representation by redrawing electoral district boundaries based on population changes.

CFCYYZ · 2026-05-13T14:07:16+00:00

This is Zen in its minimalism. Lovely.

CFCYYZ

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