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John Lilly, ideas about dolphin intelligence, and the connections between the military and the 1960s counterculture, via Ken MacLeod.
Bill Higgins did some research on, and produced a nice write-up of, the first ten years of radio astronomy: one amateur astronomer inspired by Janssky's discovery of cosmic radio emissions.
Some kinds of figs and wasps have complicated mutualistic relationships. The female fig trees lure wasps in, and after being pollinated kill and eat the wasps. Wasps do best only visiting male figs; there's an ongoing back-and-forth between tree and insect, in which the wasps can be viewed as trying to "cheat" the trees.
[link fixed; thanks, Bill]
Bill Higgins did some research on, and produced a nice write-up of, the first ten years of radio astronomy: one amateur astronomer inspired by Janssky's discovery of cosmic radio emissions.
Some kinds of figs and wasps have complicated mutualistic relationships. The female fig trees lure wasps in, and after being pollinated kill and eat the wasps. Wasps do best only visiting male figs; there's an ongoing back-and-forth between tree and insect, in which the wasps can be viewed as trying to "cheat" the trees.
[link fixed; thanks, Bill]
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