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    Share Animal Pictures: For Animal Lovers

    from: https://www.science.org/content/article/chicago-s-beloved-rat-hole-was-actually-made-squirrel?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=DailyLatestNews&et_rid=295682744&et_cid=5760984
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    Random Thoughts 7

    Left to right is a preferred direction of movement in media arts.
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    Australian Funnel-web spiders and delta-hexatoxin (aka Versutoxin)

    Must have been a big spider.
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    In the early days of electricity, they didn't have wall plugs

    Do a search.. You may find something.
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    In the early days of electricity, they didn't have wall plugs

    There are one neutral and two hot contacts. This gives you the threeway-ness: Neutral vs. hot 1 Neutral vs. hot 2 Neutral vs. hot 1 and hot 2 One of the hots could be wired as a ground instead of another hot. You would also need a screw in to normal three prong socket adapter (there's...
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    In the early days of electricity, they didn't have wall plugs

    Sockets for three way lights can:
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    Collection of Lame Jokes

    I got my first computer because I was writing my thesis and am a poor speller.
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    Share Animal Pictures: For Animal Lovers

    Bats are cool. I have known people in a couple of bat neurobiology labs (one also owls). Echolocation. You could throw small objects into the air when they are flying around and they will go after them as if they were prey. Lots of fun. I would guess the bat shots were made in a place know...
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    Writing: Input Wanted Looking for story advice on ancient aquatic reptile breeding grounds

    A lack of fossils is not something to worry about. Coelacanths were thought extinct by their poor fossil record for millions of years before live specimens were found. If something lives in deep ocean, fossils may be uncommon. Maybe you need an uncharted seamount.
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    Writing: Input Wanted Looking for story advice on ancient aquatic reptile breeding grounds

    Migrations are a form of behavior. Behaviors can be fairly maleable some some changes are possible evolutionarially. However, wanting something to happen once in a while interspersed with a large number of "normal" events is different. One could think of it this way: Migrations can be...
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    Share Animal Pictures: For Animal Lovers

    This sea slug (like many corals) can use algae they have incorporated into their skin to photosynthesize.
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    Collection of Lame Jokes

    Lots. The have a good idea where they live and there are not many people around there.
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