[-] LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago

Here it is on a tree. It consistently grew on this species but not others.

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This bright orange lichen grows all over the old stones on the main island of São Miguel, as well as on some trees. It made driving a bit easier where it grew near roads like high visibility paint.

[-] LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 hours ago

Australian psychedelic bands are awesome. See also: ORB, Beans, Pyschedelic Porn Crumpets, Jagwar Ma

[-] LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

Brain-imaging evidence showed that the subjects’ parietal lobes, involved in spatial reasoning, were more active during approximation problems; while the left inferior frontal lobes, involved in verbal reasoning, were more active during exact calculation problems. Studies of patients with brain lesions paint the same picture: those with parietal lesions sometimes can’t decide whether 9 is closer to 10 or to 5, but remember the multiplication table; whereas those with left-hemispheric lesions sometimes can’t decide whether 2+2 is 3 or 4, but know that the answer is closer to 3 than to 9.

I wonder if, in the face of very large numbers, both these systems fail and we default to a social/emotional impression of "powerful/scary."

[-] LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Looks great, but tangled. Where do you go from here? Will they not choke each other out?

[-] LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

"Set" (v. intransitive) literally always refers to orbital bodies becoming occluded by a horizon. She knew this

[-] LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

My new favorite 405 image

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