Happy Hump Day!
Anna Escobar
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If you die, YOU LOSE! YOU GET NOTHING!
“May the snozberries be ever in your favor.”
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Discovery:
So-called zombie worms — and yes, they actually exist — like to munch on whale bones for dinner. The creatures also use the bones for shelter. Spread throughout the world’s oceans, zombie worms are quite adept at making the bones of whales and other large marine animals look like Swiss cheese.
But these worms don’t have any mouthparts with which to gnaw the holes. So how do they do it? A study published in the May 1 online edition of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B found that rather than being “bone-drilling” worms, they’re actually “bone-dissolving” worms: The worms’ skin produces acid in large quantities to break down bones.
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Even stranger is that the worms lack digestive systems. The study suggests the acid the worms produce frees collagen and other proteins from the whale bones, but how they are broken down and absorbed by the worms is unclear. Tresguerres, along with co-authors Sigrid Katz and Greg Rouse, think that symbiotic bacteria help the animals digest the food.
The headline of this article, Zombie Worms Drill Whale Bones with Acid, is up there with Buddhist ‘Iron Man’ found by Nazis is from space.
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So-called zombie worms — and yes, they actually exist — like to munch on whale bones for dinner. The creatures also use the bones for shelter. Spread throughout the world’s oceans, zombie worms are quite adept at making the bones of whales and other large marine animals look like Swiss cheese.
But these worms don’t have any mouthparts with which to gnaw the holes. So how do they do it? A study published in the May 1 online edition of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B found that rather than being “bone-drilling” worms, they’re actually “bone-dissolving” worms: The worms’ skin produces acid in large quantities to break down bones.
[…]
Even stranger is that the worms lack digestive systems. The study suggests the acid the worms produce frees collagen and other proteins from the whale bones, but how they are broken down and absorbed by the worms is unclear. Tresguerres, along with co-authors Sigrid Katz and Greg Rouse, think that symbiotic bacteria help the animals digest the food.
The headline of this article, Zombie Worms Drill Whale Bones with Acid, is up there with Buddhist ‘Iron Man’ found by Nazis is from space.
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5-Year-Old Fatally Shot 2-Year-Old Sister With Gun He Received as Gift
For at least the third time this month, a young child has shot and killed someone. On Tuesday afternoon, a five-year-old boy fatally shot his two-year-old sister in Cumberland County, Kentucky with .22 rifle the five-year-old was given as a gift.
“It’s a Crickett,” Cumberland County Coroner Gary White told the Lexington Herald-Leader. “It’s a little rifle for a kid.”
The rifle, which was usually stored in one of the home’s corners, was inadvertently left loaded, according to White. The boy’s mother was home at the time of the shooting.
“The little boy’s used to shooting the little gun,” White said, before saying the shooting will be ruled accidental. “Just one of those crazy accidents.”
Just one of those crazy accidents. You know, the completely unpredictable kind of accident that occurs when you give a five-year-old a rifle and leave it lying around the house, unattended.
If this sounds familiar, it’s because, sadly, it is. Earlier this month, a four-year-old shot and killed a deputy’s wife with a handgun. The next day a two-year-old reportedly shot his mother in the stomach with a 9mm Glock. Two days later, another four-year-old shot a six-year-old in the head, killing him.
Uh, guns are not good gifts. I’m pretty sure I wasn’t even allowed play guns at age 5. From now on, let’s just give kids soccer balls. Everyone loves soccer balls, especially those small mini ones.
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A year ago I rode my bike from NYC to Washington DC as part of the Climate Ride which raises money for green energy and bike advocacy. My brave, selfless ride single-handedly solved the energy crisis, as every schoolchild knows. But a year later things have gone to shit and I’ve been once again asked to mount my bike, ride from NYC to Washington and save the world for a second time.
Last year I made a pledge to wear Jorts for the entire 300 miles if I met my fundraising goal. You all donated and I was forced to endure 5 chafing, painful days which left with a permanently discolored part of my inner thigh.
This year I offer a new promise to my donors if I hit my fundraising goal - I will mount a GoPro on my bike and record my face during every significant hill I have to ride up. At the end of the ride, I will edit the footage into a sweaty, wheezing, embarrassing video and post it here for everyone to enjoy.
What is my goal? $2,400. That’s all I need in order to embarrass myself in the name of a good cause. So if you’re feeling generous PLEASE DONATE! The sooner I reach my goal, the sooner I’ll stop bugging people to give me money.
Costume sketch by Edith Head for Audrey Hepburn in ‘Funny Face’, 1957.
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America's Test Kitchen: The Mansions of Beverage Barons: You probably knew that the beverage...
The Mansions of Beverage Barons: You probably knew that the beverage kings of America (the executives of major beverage companies like Starbucks and Schweppes) were absurdly rich, but now you can see their houses and really be sure. Curbed has put up a slideshow of the houses in which these…
