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@pozorvlak@mathstodon.xyz @mjd@mathstodon.xyz it’s not really clear why whales should have external ear holes at all anymore. I think the book covers this somewhat. Whales hear primarily through bone conduction.
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@daringfireball@mastodon.social I also remember At Ease from middle school, including the fact that while it appeared to limit access to files only belonging to you, that this was superficial. A number of students accessed other students' files via HyperCard trivially.
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@mjd@mathstodon.xyz @pozorvlak@mathstodon.xyz they don’t expel earwax, this is one of the fascinating details that I do remember clearly from the book. It accumulates over their lifetime. Similar to tree rings, ear wax ends up as a record of their life and it’s possible to infer how much stress they were under by looking at the amount of cortisol trapped in it during that period. Great book!
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@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer have you read this? can’t help but think of how it overlaps in several interesting ways https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16753
