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I still feel that “omniphonic” should have been acceptable for today’s NYT Spelling Bee!
🔗📻 CBC: Feb 3: Shark mortality, what dogs like on TV, an amazing fossil tree and more
CBC: Feb 3: Shark mortality, what dogs like on TV, an amazing fossil tree and more
The complex interdependence of plants and animals in an ecosystem are often hard to fathom until they go wrong. This is illustrated by a new study in Kenya showing how an invasive ant led to elephants knocking down trees, affecting how lions hunt zebras, which turned out to be bad news for buffalo. Adam Ford from the University of British Columbia, Okanagan is part of the team on this study published in Science.
This is a really good segment. The following one on an ancient tool to create rope was also quite interesting.
🔗 InsideEVs: Nerds In Teslas Keep Getting Caught Driving with Apple Vision Pro
The Apple Vision Pro, Cupertino’s new $3,500 Augmented Reality (AR) headset, hit the streets last week and boy-oh-boy are people already abusing it. Specifically, there seems to be quite the overlap in the center of the Venn diagram featuring Apple Visio Pro owners and two-plus ton Tesla (among other cars) drivers who don’t take driving safety seriously.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she doesn’t like federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault because he’s an ideologue. No irony in that!