Many edible, medicinal, and poisonous mushrooms that we are familiar with belong to the order Agaricales, which is a group of fungi with important economic and ecological value. Understanding the phylogenetic relationships of Agaricales can help us to know their evolutionary hist … | Continue reading
Insects are among the most prolific and successful invaders of new habitats, but not all regions are equal in the numbers of insects that have spread beyond their borders. | Continue reading
A team of researchers from TU Delft has succeeded in long-term mapping of beach topography to within a few centimeters. The unique dataset provides insights into coastal changes for every hour, for three years. This data is important for dune maintenance and to keep the hinterlan … | Continue reading
Diamine Solar Storm, a stunning blurple with chameleon shimmer, which means the shimmer changes color depending on how the light hits it. ️ This was an Inkvent 2022 offering; my friend L was willing to lend this to me to swatch. It’s even prettier than I thought it would be! | Continue reading
And Pedro Pascal wore nutty pants. The post Everyone Who Celebrated Willem Dafoe’s Star on the Walk of Fame Seems Delightful first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
In nature, organic molecules are either left- or right-handed, but synthesizing molecules with a specific "handedness" in a lab is hard to do. Make a drug or enzyme with the wrong "handedness," and it just won't work. Now chemists at the University of California, Davis, are getti … | Continue reading
I was VERY concerned for Julianne Moore's toes before I realized that they were not in New York in January, but in fact here in L.A. for the Governors Awards. So maybe... nothing to see here? Everyone looks mostly fine. Charles's pants still feel a degree off here and there. Juli … | Continue reading
Moisture levels in the soil can impact the effects that microplastic pollution has on soil fungi, according to new research published in Environmental Microbiology. | Continue reading
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches. This week, we cover Algernon Blackwood’s “A Victim of Higher Space,” first published in The Occult … | Continue reading
Whoo hoo for The Gilded Age! The post The SAG Awards Nominations Are Here! first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
We've got several months left to wear them, you know? The post Fug Nation Loves Cardigans first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
More than 80% of global land area needed to maintain human well-being and meet biodiversity targets is at risk of conflict with human development, according to a new study led by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. | Continue reading
In the 2000s, if you wanted to make interactive or animated visualization for the web, Flash was the main option. When Flash lost support and fell off the internet, a solid decade of great visualiz… | Continue reading
For a guy who likes to write, I am probably not a lot better about writing docs than most other developers. We're supposed to leave a good trail behind us, but I've only managed to do that in certain ways. For example, I have standardized on a worknotes.md file for each of my pro … | Continue reading
En línea con innovaciones que se están produciendo a nivel global en la industria de medios, Clarín presentó... | Continue reading
The text telling me Tim had died came through a few minutes before a series of meetings with students. After the feeling of sickness and dread that hit me I wondered whether to go ahead anyway, and then thought what a strange thought that was. But my stepmum told me later that wh … | Continue reading
Matt's birthday wish is for people to blog more. So here's a blog post, which being my 14th so far this year certainly qualifies as "more"! | Continue reading
Alex Bronzini-Vender in the Los Angeles Review of Books: I understand why many find civility a deeply questionable—if not totally worthless—discourse: cries for civility are often just attempts to silence desperate demands for justice, cloaked in the language of liberal rationali … | Continue reading
Eric Hoel in The Intrinsic Perspective: The hardest question in neuroscience [is] a very simple one, and devastating in its simplicity. If even small artificial neural networks are mathematical black boxes, such that the people who build them don’t know how to control them, nor w … | Continue reading
An unusual collection I found online. A holiday photo from Oregon, 1914. We all know a small child like that. She is advertising her soft shoulders. Well, she said it… A very early version of website dating. An ambiguous service announcement. They could at least have looked happy … | Continue reading
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Pour some out for the stylists. The post Emma Stone Ditched Louis Vuitton for the Governors Awards first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
We're never going back. READ MORE... | Continue reading
Even death is no match for a trio of elderly, stubborn, ever-sparring sisters, who refuse to rest in peace while their grudges live on... | Continue reading
How are those New Year's resolutions coming, minions? Did you already ditch the ol' "get up earlier, work out, and eat better" thing? SO WITH YOU.Really, we should just pick easier goals... and then reward ourselves. With cake. For picking goals.Because baby steps.Here, I'll kick … | Continue reading
Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext:He's also an intolerancesexual, which to his delight, they refuse do tolerate.Today's News: Lovely long review of A City on Mars here, by Cory Doctorow. | Continue reading
It’s that time of year again. When the calendar turns over, that means it’s time to […] | Continue reading
Your feedback on robot artists, marsupial frogs and abolitionist icons | Continue reading
This year, I’m going to try an experiment. I’m going to use this blog in notebook mode, posting very short shitposty things at a higher frequency. Let’s kick things off with this screenshot of a prompt I tried in Dall-E this morning, inspired by a conversation about the implicati … | Continue reading
prinnay: prinnay: Mantle O_O Radar’d Y’all, I don’t even have words, like, thank youThank you is not enough but thank you!! | Continue reading
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Beim Event-Nachwuchsaward BrandEx Fresh 2024 hat die Jury gleich vier Beiträge auf die Siegerliste gesetzt. Diese Entscheidung fiel wegen der hohen Qualität der eingereichten Beiträge. Wer ganz vorn ist, wird erst bei der Awardzeremonie am 17. ... | Continue reading
It even turns into a portable smoothie bottle! READ MORE... | Continue reading
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There was a tiny DOG in attendence!!! Also: Drama. The post The Story of the ASTRA Film Awards Is…a Ride first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
Mail chew, attempted a shorter planning call. Calc stand-up - encouraging to see the focused team & ongoing progress. Poked at some slides with Lily, booked travel to the Univention Summit in a couple of weeks in Bremen. | Continue reading
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; "Teacher Tom, you always wear the same shirt."It wasn't entirely true, but I understood why a kid might say that. "I wear different shirts.""No, you always wear your purple shirt."Again, not entirely true, but I did always w … | Continue reading
This event was described in the caption as a premiere party for The Curse... a show that has been on the air since right after the strike ended, was represented at the Globes by nominee Emma Stone, and whose finale airs on the 17th. So... that must mean this was actually a finale … | Continue reading
Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext:The cool thing is the rapid mutation of surrounding plants and bacteria, meaning Dad is still changing lives after he's gone.Today's News: | Continue reading
Plus, it only cost $600. READ MORE... | Continue reading
We've got postparties! We've got preparties! We've got Ryan Gosling, who we accidentally left out of our Globes coverage! IT'S ALL HERE. The post Come Ride the Globes Weekend Party Omnibus! first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
In this bi-weekly series reviewing classic science fiction and fantasy books, Alan Brown looks at the front lines and frontiers of the field; books about soldiers and spacers, scientists and engineers, explorers and adventurers. Stories full of what Shakespeare used to refer to a … | Continue reading
I was chatting with a software engineer who has been at Facebook (“Meta”) for about 10 years. His wife works an Excel-oriented analytics job for a company on the Peninsula. After their employers went 100-percent remote, they began spending more and more time in Hawaii. They grew … | Continue reading
Photo by Steven Has anyone seen the porta potties in Tompkins Square Park? The toilet triplex near Ninth Street and Avenue A outside the ballfield/skate area is no longer in the spot. Park workers we asked didn't know anything about their whereabouts. Hmm!The porta potties first … | Continue reading
It's traditionally one of Hollywood's most sartorially unhinged nights! The post W’s “Best Performances” Party Is BACK first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading