Stuff that is awesome in the world
1) New Scientist has an article about this bloke who uses echolocation to find his way around.
2) Forget fantasies of ninjas versus pirates. Apparently, according to the Chinese news, in the real world, we have dolphins versus pirates. Dolphins tend to be portrayed as gentle, enlightened, peace-loving creatures but this article makes you think: those “thousands of dolphins” must have formed a mob before the Somali ship started making threatening movements. There’s no way they could have massed in time, otherwise- surely. So... are we to take it that the dolphins were in a mob already, presumably looking for trouble to start so they could get in on some vigilante action?
3) Ants "incredibly successful" at cultivating fungi because they don’t bother with boys. An all female ant group in the Amazon has forgone sexual reproduction in favour of cloning. Apparently, they think boys are a waste of energy. Can we call them the Daughters of the Amazon? Apologies for lame, semi-obscure Vertigo comics-related pun.
2) Forget fantasies of ninjas versus pirates. Apparently, according to the Chinese news, in the real world, we have dolphins versus pirates. Dolphins tend to be portrayed as gentle, enlightened, peace-loving creatures but this article makes you think: those “thousands of dolphins” must have formed a mob before the Somali ship started making threatening movements. There’s no way they could have massed in time, otherwise- surely. So... are we to take it that the dolphins were in a mob already, presumably looking for trouble to start so they could get in on some vigilante action?
3) Ants "incredibly successful" at cultivating fungi because they don’t bother with boys. An all female ant group in the Amazon has forgone sexual reproduction in favour of cloning. Apparently, they think boys are a waste of energy. Can we call them the Daughters of the Amazon? Apologies for lame, semi-obscure Vertigo comics-related pun.