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“A form of red algae was spreading across Australia’s eastern coast last week” “The photo shows a girl checking out the red algal bloom in the water at Clovelly Beach in Sydney.””Algal blooms such as these occur when unicellular organisms, in this case dinoflagellates called noctiluca scintillans, reproduce quickly under optimal conditions. These blooms typically occur when currents bring cold, nutrient-rich water to the surface.” 
Kay its study time.

So I’ll be adding my thoughts as I read my Entomology notes and such. I will also post interesting facts, pictures and artwork (maybe?) concerning the wonderful Class Hexapoda of the Phylum Arthropoda.

Hypothesis for evolution of intelligence and comparison of corvids/apes - Full article

The Mentality of Crows: Convergent Evolution of Intelligence in Corvids and Apes

discoverynews: Deadly Frog Gets New Sanctuary The golden poison dart frog, which is arguably the world’s most poisonous animal, is now residing in the first ever sanctuary established to save the deadly, yet endangered, amphibian. The poison of this frog is so toxic that even coming into contact with a paper towel that has touched the frog can be fatal. A single 2-inch-long frog has enough poison to kill 10 adult people within minutes. keep reading
expose-the-light: Top 10 Biggest Brain Damaging Habits 1. No Breakfast People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level.This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration. 2. Overreacting It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power. 3. Smoking It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease. 4. High Sugar consumption Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.        5. Air Pollution The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency. 6. Sleep Deprivation Sleep allows our brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain 7. Head covered while sleeping Sleeping with the head covered, increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects. 8. Working your brain during illness Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.             9. Talking Rarely Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain. 10. Lacking in stimulating thoughts Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.
explorans: In his second year of neuroscience grad school, Greg Dunn was moonlighting with a different kind of experiment: blowing ink across pieces of paper. The neuron-like pattern it formed was instantly recognizable to him as a neuroscientist. “Ink spreads because it wants to go in the direction of less resistance, and that’s probably also the case of when branches grow or neurons grow,” he says. “The reason the technique works really well is because it’s directly related to how neurons are actually behaving.” Dunn calls this the “fractal solution to the universe,” which he sees as the “fundamental beauty of nature.” He’s fascinated that this branching pattern holds true across orders of magnitude, whether that’s nanometers for neurons, centimeters for ink, or meters for a tree branch. Since graduating with his PhD last fall, Dunn has continued to spend his days with neurons—big, golden ones ten thousand times the size of neurons in your brain. The former University of Pennsylvania grad student now creates paintings of neurons for a living.
sciencepopularis: A magnetic field visualized
Alchohol consumption shown to increase aggressive behaviour while THC weakly suppressed such behaviour.

Dinosaurs may have helped warm ancient Earth via their own natural gaseous emissions, a new study says.

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