If you want to know more about this (because in reality it is a bit more complicated) MinuteFood explains it pretty well in this video.

Sorry, I misread your question. Yes, google maps shows “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)” in Europe as well :(

No, it shows Gulf of Mexico. The commenter just wanted to give some good alternatives that people could use

I misread, thanks for clarifying :)

Yeah, the art market in on itself is a scam…

What? Why does no one in the comments mention that plants don’t decompose dead bodies? This statement is just utterly wrong.

Well, that is pretty much US defaultism. I’m not from the US and was talking about academia on an international level.

Your example again just shows how the structure, i.e. the universities working under capitalist logic, are the problem. This doesn’t mean that academics necessarily agree with this change in politics.

I get why you have such a fatalistic view and I agree with your statements about the fascist takeover :(

Not sure if this would impact academia all that much since those “pompous” scholars are just a tiny minority. I don’t think academia’s problem lies in individuals being problematic anyways but rather on a structural level. Egoistic, shortsighted and competitive behavior is strongly incentivized. And people that don’t fit that mold get burned out pretty quickly. I think opposite to your argument it is rather an indication of how good human nature can be that academia is still working on such a collaborative and communicative basis despite capitalist and neoliberal pressures.

I’m in love with both, too ❤️

Haha, my favorite crochet youtuber Complicated Knots made a series of videos on “Bugsmas” (for Christmas) last year. She included in her bugs such things as bees or beetles, but also a snail and a velvet worm. No hemipterans were included though. But following your definition, all those above could be bugs because they are terrestrial.

The Chinese gaming market is gigantic though and their 500 million gamers certainly need good internet.

Interesting, doesn’t ard also mean “ground/earth” in Arabic? Maybe one of those words that made into the indo-german languages by the Arabic conquest?

Same :'(

Nah, if you are an actual researcher dealing with hundreds of species you hardly now the common names (if the taxa even have common names, which most don’t!). Also, working in a diverse international environment like the research community means that knowing only common names won’t get you anywhere. It is very much necessary for you to know scientific names to be able to communicate with others.

I know many the scientific names of taxa from completely different kingdoms than my own research because I’ve been talking with other researchers about their field of study.

Humanity isn’t progressing uniformly forward like this. Lgbtqia+ people were considered normal part of society by various cultures. Also Magnus Hirschfeld was an advocate for lgbtqia+ people a hundred years ago. Slavery has been transformed into modern slavery because the western world has found other, more concealed ways to force people into labor. Ideas may die out, but they will pop into people’s head again and again.

Oof, that was a very brutal topic to read about, but very important. What monsters are those people that portray themselves as feminists and then go on and do such things. Gaiman is obviously the worst here, but Palmer seems to be also very problematic. And it goes to show that only because you were victim to abuse or are marginalized that it does not prevent you in any way to do the same thing to other people :(

Imagine confusing ronto and ronna and accidentally shifting a ronnameter instead :P

Ah OK, thanks for the context :)

Yes, I see your point and agree :)

Very interesting indeed! It’s fascinating how many adaptations there are that aren’t as obvious as anatomical ones.

Although I would take the validity of this excerpt with a grain of salt. The evolution of different kinds of fish is really messy (as they are a paraphyletic group anyways). I couldn’t find any info on how any fish or sharks evolved in freshwater conditions for example (just that their urea content is indeed higher). If you have any info on that, I would be glad to read it :)

The only interesting bit I did find was this pbs eons episode on how armored fish evolved to probably store minerals like calcium and potassium and how other vertebrates today use their endoskeleton to store those same minerals.