Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
I should see if I can find a PS3 copy
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MayabirdPecking at the keyboardRegistered Userregular
American kestrels are colorful and fierce little falcons.
They nest in cavities, and so are attracted to large nest boxes. This means it's easy to find their nests so that their chicks can be banded. Standard practice is to set up a ladder, climb up with a bucket (with a towel in the bottom), pick up the chicks and place them in the bucket, climb down, record measurements and band the chicks, then return to the box. The chicks are fine and the parents don't abandon them (having little sense of smell, they can't be scared off by human stink, and the chicks are fine so why ditch them?) but that doesn't mean it's an easy job. After all, kestrels are raptors, birds of prey. The little ones may not be able to fly but they are not defenseless and have no intention of going down without a fight.
When they feel threatened, like when a giant tries to pluck them out of their nest to put them in a bucket, kestrel chicks roll on their backs to present and use their sharp talons. According to a friend who just went on a kestrel-banding trip, it was rather painful but soooo adorable.
There is a Kestrel and a Red Tailed hawk in my neighborhood that have a friendship? as when the birds mostly the swallows start to harass the kestrel it will go off and get it's friend
But I have seen them hunt together
Or down by the water chute for a retention pond I have seen the kestrel play with a lizard tossing it against the side of the chute letting it run pouncing on it and doing it all over again
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webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
I love kestrels. We have a bunch of bird boxes along our creek for wood ducks, and the fucking starlings ran the ducks off for a few years. Then about 2 years ago a breeding pair of Kestrels moved in to one of the boxes and starting killing and running off the starlings. now we have kestrels and the wood ducks have come back.
[It's the squeakitysqueakity sounds. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology describes it as "an even chee-dit exchanged between individuals or during chases." Because they chase and fight each other all the time.]
We watched a flock of hummingbirds up close last year; they would even land on you and oh my stars are they fucking adorable with the peets and the twits and the chkchkchks.
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
We watched a flock of hummingbirds up close last year; they would even land on you and oh my stars are they fucking adorable with the peets and the twits and the chkchkchks.
what'd you say to me?
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
sometimes I see hummingbirds around the flowers in front of my apartment building
they're cool birds
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TrippyJingMoses supposes his toeses are roses.But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered Userregular
Tldr:birds and humans with cool mutualistic behavior*. The birds help humans find honey in exchange for easy to access beeswax. Which has been known for a while. The newish thing is that the birds not only have a call specifically for telling humans they want to find a nest, humans have a call for that purpose too.
*even cooler, the birds live as parasites among other birds, similar to cuckoos, so they aren't learning the call from their "parents" but by watching their peers.
I can't tell if I want the last VCR to be the the pinnacle of VCR excellence or just a piece of shit
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
The Dewey Decimal code is a ludicrously complicated structure designed to contain and order the entire sum of human knowledge. Like any baroque structure, it has some odd corners to reward the explorer.
If it's been a while since you've been to the nonfiction section of your public library, the first number in a Dewey cutter represents a broad classification of knowledge, getting more specific as you go right. For example, 615.856 breaks down as:
600: Technology
610: Medicine and Health
615: Pharmacology and therapeutics
615.8: Specific therapies and kinds of therapies
615.85: Miscellaneous therapies
615.856: Controversial and spurious therapies; quackery
"Quackery" is one of my favorite subject headings in the entire system.
One weird quirk is that the Byzantine Empire is considered to be part of European history, while the Ottoman Empire and Turkey are considered part of Asian history. This means that in many libraries, a book about Constantinople will be shelved in 949.5, while a book about Istanbul will be in 956.1, potentially many shelves away and with all of Chinese, Japanese, and Indian history in between. What I'm saying is that Mehmed II really fucked things up for librarians.
At the very end of the Dewey Decimal system is a section that has never, in the opinion of most catalogers, been correctly used yet: 999.
900: History & Geography
990: History of Other Areas (mostly isolated islands that are not closely associated with a larger polity, and also Antarctica)
999: History of Extraterrestrial Worlds
The thing about history, in the Dewey sense, is that only people can create it. To the best of our knowledge, the only things that have occurred on every other planet but Earth is some combination of astronomy, geology, meteorology, and robotics. At some point in the future, either humans will set foot on Mars for the first time or SETI will detect strong evidence of intelligent alien life. There will be a flood of books by scientists, scholars, pundits and crackpots, all trying to fit this astonishing new development into the context of the human story, all trying to figure out what it means for our future and our definition of what it means to be human.
Alone in all the turmoil, the librarians will know exactly what to do.
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They nest in cavities, and so are attracted to large nest boxes. This means it's easy to find their nests so that their chicks can be banded. Standard practice is to set up a ladder, climb up with a bucket (with a towel in the bottom), pick up the chicks and place them in the bucket, climb down, record measurements and band the chicks, then return to the box. The chicks are fine and the parents don't abandon them (having little sense of smell, they can't be scared off by human stink, and the chicks are fine so why ditch them?) but that doesn't mean it's an easy job. After all, kestrels are raptors, birds of prey. The little ones may not be able to fly but they are not defenseless and have no intention of going down without a fight.
When they feel threatened, like when a giant tries to pluck them out of their nest to put them in a bucket, kestrel chicks roll on their backs to present and use their sharp talons. According to a friend who just went on a kestrel-banding trip, it was rather painful but soooo adorable.
he wishes he were as chill as a shrike
But I have seen them hunt together
Or down by the water chute for a retention pond I have seen the kestrel play with a lizard tossing it against the side of the chute letting it run pouncing on it and doing it all over again
Great little birds!
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Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
[It's the squeakitysqueakity sounds. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology describes it as "an even chee-dit exchanged between individuals or during chases." Because they chase and fight each other all the time.]
what'd you say to me?
they're cool birds
*fan frantically*
Far out
... sure, that's a good enough euphemism.
That just raises more questions!
And other things.
share the fan, Nic.
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Cafeteria has no food i can eat and i just poured hot sauce all over my fries thinking it was ketchup
Fffffffffffuuuu
Hmmmm
See some amount would be alright
But the sauce is much more liquidy than ketchup and flows more freely. These fries are fucking slathered
I'm not seeing the issue.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/07/wild-
birds-learn-to-recognize-when-humans-ask-for-help-finding-honey/
Tldr:birds and humans with cool mutualistic behavior*. The birds help humans find honey in exchange for easy to access beeswax. Which has been known for a while. The newish thing is that the birds not only have a call specifically for telling humans they want to find a nest, humans have a call for that purpose too.
*even cooler, the birds live as parasites among other birds, similar to cuckoos, so they aren't learning the call from their "parents" but by watching their peers.
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I think he is bragging about his awesome lunch, Caulk.
Why is this so sad to me?
Because everything about the video was made to make you feel sad
It is a sad video
If it's been a while since you've been to the nonfiction section of your public library, the first number in a Dewey cutter represents a broad classification of knowledge, getting more specific as you go right. For example, 615.856 breaks down as:
600: Technology
610: Medicine and Health
615: Pharmacology and therapeutics
615.8: Specific therapies and kinds of therapies
615.85: Miscellaneous therapies
615.856: Controversial and spurious therapies; quackery
"Quackery" is one of my favorite subject headings in the entire system.
One weird quirk is that the Byzantine Empire is considered to be part of European history, while the Ottoman Empire and Turkey are considered part of Asian history. This means that in many libraries, a book about Constantinople will be shelved in 949.5, while a book about Istanbul will be in 956.1, potentially many shelves away and with all of Chinese, Japanese, and Indian history in between. What I'm saying is that Mehmed II really fucked things up for librarians.
At the very end of the Dewey Decimal system is a section that has never, in the opinion of most catalogers, been correctly used yet: 999.
900: History & Geography
990: History of Other Areas (mostly isolated islands that are not closely associated with a larger polity, and also Antarctica)
999: History of Extraterrestrial Worlds
The thing about history, in the Dewey sense, is that only people can create it. To the best of our knowledge, the only things that have occurred on every other planet but Earth is some combination of astronomy, geology, meteorology, and robotics. At some point in the future, either humans will set foot on Mars for the first time or SETI will detect strong evidence of intelligent alien life. There will be a flood of books by scientists, scholars, pundits and crackpots, all trying to fit this astonishing new development into the context of the human story, all trying to figure out what it means for our future and our definition of what it means to be human.
Alone in all the turmoil, the librarians will know exactly what to do.
They've been expecting this.