The (mini) Whippet #156: Do not panic!
Hello! A brief one this fortnight: Sharks smell in stereo You know how humans can tell what direction sounds are coming from because our ears hear sounds a split second apart, so they can triangulate distance between the two? And it's automatic, you just 'know' that
The Whippet #155: Do spiders dream of electric flies?
Stale-bread soup, nepotism for your nep-hews, should you punch a lion in the face?, spiders have dreams, study suggests!
The Whippet #154: Refuge in audacity
There ought to be a word like "landmarks" but for time. Life events that you use to determine when other things happened. Chronomarks.
The Whippet #153: Shake off the shackles of the page
Lines of text leapt up, out of the book, and started conferring with their neighboring lines of text, creating an aerial network of language.
The Whippet #152: Omnivores vs Cucinivores
Scientists discovered whale sharks are the world's largest omnivore, knocking the Kodiak Bear off its illegitimate throne.
The Whippet #151: Are you worried about OUTER SPACE?
NSA Security Posters from the 1950s and 1960s, plus a creepy plant defence mechanism and some unsolicited advice.
The Whippet #150: Heart-smitten with that desire of wandering and looking on new things
How large would a bucket of water have to be to put out the sun? It's a trick question: water would make the sun burn brighter.
The Whippet #149: Getting rhizomatic with the lads
Sponge crabs find sea sponges, trim the creatures using their claws, and wear them like hats.
The Whippet 148: The cool, high peaks of mountains
You take stuff in, break it down for parts, build what you need, and get rid of the bits you didn't use.
The Whippet #147: How's my perceiving?
I always assumed a) smelling salts were just an intense, sharp essential oil or perfume, and b) that they didn't do much beyond placebo, since they were mainly used to rouse women who had pretended to faint at a shocking piece of news