BufordM

Steve Brusatte talks about birds.
Good stuff.
#palentology #birds #nonavian_dinosaurs #extinctions
**Scientists finally understand why birds were the only dinosaurs to pull through the end-Cretaceous mass extinction.**
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/asteroid-extinguished-dinosaurs-except-birds-100000521.html

Something to monitor. The climate, she be a changin' .
*Scientists from the University of Exeter found the alpine vegetation line advancing upward at rates of up to nearly seven meters per year.
… the Himalaya is not a frozen monument. It is a living system responding in real time to a climate shifting faster than at any point in recorded history. The color of its peaks is one visible consequence of that ongoing change.*
#climate
https://indiandefencereview.com/himalayas-peaks-turning-green-alpine-plants-climbing/

Anyone who has ever owned or worked with animals knows they have personalities. A little scientific verification is nice I suppose.
#animals #ravens
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-raven-personalities-survival-human-pressure.html

Hear! Hear! 🤔👍

*"Computing can be so noisy these days

No, I don’t want to sign up to your newsletter.

No, I don’t want to create an account to read your site. (Well, I will for paid subscriptions, I guess.)

No, I’m not going to create an account on your system to use my computer, or configure a router. I have a local account on the machine, and that’s just fine. … "*

Read the whole thing.
#enshittification
https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/04/just-let-me-compute-in-peace/

Something to think about.
🤔
“Fructose is not just another calorie,” said Richard Johnson, MD, professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz and study lead author. “It acts as a metabolic signal that promotes fat production and storage in ways that differ fundamentally from glucose.”
#health #diet
https://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/new-report-highlights-fructose-as-a-key-driver-of-metabolic-disease

Bit of a clickbaity title, but still quite interesting.
"…darkness can move faster than light…"
#science #physics
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/darkness-can-move-faster-than-light-without-breaking-the-laws-of-physics/