haha isnt it crazy how people know the make and model of all the cars they see— *a bee flies by* oh hey no way it’s bombus occidentalis, the western bumble bee!— anyway haha yeah car people are freaks

趁著洋基無敵大得分，將WordPress升級到2.3了。
2.3最吸引人，同時也是最重要的變更就是" Tag" 的功能。我們寫完文章除了原本的目錄Categories外，可以另外貼上目前最流行的標籤 Tags，由Wordpress自稱踹屁股(=很屌的) kickass taxonomy system支援。
此外，外掛程式多了更新通知 。另外一個重要的修正就是網址上的清理，更乾淨、更標準、更搜尋引擎友善。它也會自動轉連消失或錯誤的網址。
另外就是Atom 1.0完全支援，以及改用jQuery據說八倍快，目前還沒有感受到 :D。
新的Review Pending適用於多人使用模式 ，方便主編或管理員審理文章。
完整功能請看這裡。
務必、千萬、絕對要記得，升級前，請先備份。以免後悔莫及。
ps: 我在更新的時候，就有遇到新 taxonomy.php 引發的錯誤訊息。後來我將wp-includes整個檔案夾移除，再重新上傳這個檔案夾解決了這個問題。官網是建議直接改寫舊檔，若是發生和我一樣的問題，可以試試看。
後續: 關於升級到2.5，請看這篇。

Like gender, if somebody ever tries to argue that species is not a social construct, it’s just proving that they have absolutely no clue what they’re talking about whatsoever.

Решила на время отойти от секиры и вернуться к птичкам. Вспомнила, что у меня есть огромный лист бумаги примерно 60х90 см. Короче, вот, систематика птиц.

Жаль, что место на листе не бесконечное, и всё не поместилось, так что пришлось убрать некоторые отряды.

За неделю прогресс неплохой, осталось только описания добавить и стереть разметку и остальной карандаш.

Как-то так!

I might’ve posted about this before but I can’t remember.

What exactly are hedgehogs? They look like rodents but I don’t think they are cause I don’t think they have the little front teeth and they have more back teeth than rodents do. They also like roll up. Are they related to armadillos? Also, is an armadillo a rodent?? Are they somehow more closely related to elephants like those weird little guys that scream at you?? I don’t know anymore.

Undead is a really weird term.

This taxonomic categorization includes bodies that have been separated from their souls (eg zombies), souls that have been separated from their bodies (eg ghosts), and also creatures that have both their souls and their bodies and are sustained through some magic process (eg vampires).

I think you can make a reasonable argument that a zombie and a ghost are the same kind of entity. They were both living creatures that lost some part of themselves that is normally required for living. If someone’s heart gives out and is replaced by a prosthetic heart, is that person now undead? Incorporating vampires makes the distinction even fuzzier. Is needing to drink blood to stay alive fundamentally different than needing regular blood transfusions to stay alive? Do obligate hematophagous species like parasitic leeches count as undead?

You could argue that the common thread is in the name. The thing that makes something undead is that it was dead and then it began a sort of pseudo-life that allows it to act post mortem. I’ll assume, for sake of argument, that we’re talking about the kind of vampires that die and are resurrected, not the kind who can transition straight from alive to undead. I would, however, ask what the line is between “true” life and the pseudo-life of undeath. If I die and then get resurrected to the exact state that I was in right before I died, am I now undead despite being physically unchanged? You could argue that being undead requires some change to occur between the subject’s true life and their pseudo-life, but if I die on the operating table, get defibbed back to life, and then need a pacemaker to survive, does that make me undead?

Maybe the distinction is magical. Lots of fantasy settings have a rule that undead are either unaffected by healing magic or actively harmed by it. I still think that introduces some weird philosophical implications. Imagine you have three rooms connected by doorways. I cast a spell on the middle room that modifies healing magic so that it has whatever effect it would have on an undead, whether that be nullifying the spell or reversing its effects, regardless of the target. When you walk from the first room through that middle room and then to the last room, are you undead during the time you are in the middle room? If you stand halfway in the middle room and halfway out, is one half of you undead?

I think undead only makes sense as a sociological term. There are modes of being that are socially condoned, which we call life, and there are modes of being that are socially condemned, that we call undeath. I’m not asking you to open your home to the vampires, but I am asking you to open your heart to the vampires. Maybe the real cure for undeath is acceptance.

So what is up with the word omnivore, it describes eating like two things, plants and animals, do scientists just not expect to describe something that eats more than plants, animals, or both?

did you knew Evadne, mother of Stheneleus, is a type of ostracod and every cirriped and copepod started from Nauplios of Euboea?

Kids who eat their boogers.

We’ve all seen kids (and even some adults) mining for gold in their noses. Scientifically, we call this “mucophagy. "If you get down to it, humans are primates. & research shows that at least 12 other primate species delight in this pastime. A classic example is the aye-aye primate, known for its 3-inch-long (8 cm) middle finger, which it uses to pry insects out of hard-to-reach crevices. But it has also been observed sticking that long digit into its nose, extracting mucus, and then licking it clean. Well, it turns out that gorillas, bonobos, chimpanzees, macaques, capuchins, & humans pick their noses & eat the mucus. Most species used their fingers, but some used sticks to pry out the spoils. Even more than that, some went so far as to pick others’ noses.

So what is this "treasure” in our noses? It’s mostly water (more than 98%), with the remainder called mucins (a glycoprotein-carbohydrate ingredient), immune molecules like IgA, lysozyme & defensins, & salts. Mucus is there for a purpose—it traps dust, spores & disease-causing organisms as we inhale before they reach the lungs. When someone eats their snot, they’re not introducing new pathogens—they’ve already entered our body from breathing. The scientific term for nose-picking is called “rhinotillexis,” and eating it is “mucophagy.” It’s not a problem unless it becomes a compulsive disorder called rhinotillexomania, similar to nail-biting or hair-pulling.

Be sure to check out Peter Science Guy @peboscience on X for a video on this topic and Archaeopteryx.

Chordata, the vertebrates, and the classes inside her. Practice infographic- enjoy :^)

Just learned the term “problematica” for taxonomic groups that are ambiguously related to other taxons

Whenever I get back to my Professor Punica posts, I desperately want to find an excuse to shoehorn this new knowledge in somehow

Bug fact! Hamsters diverged from their closest relative, Dumpsters, only 2 million years ago. You can see the relation in the way they have almost the same name!

Yesterday I posted a new video titled “What is a WordPress Taxonomy?” It’s about taxonomies. For real.

O livro “Invertebrados” (Brusca) está sendo um desafio muito interessante de estudar, aprofundando MUITO mais do que conseguimos ver na faculdade!

Uma das partes mais engraçadas de estudar taxonomia por conta própria, é o quanto meus colegas detestam essa área kkkkkk

Não vou mentir, cladística é difícil, é complexo, varia em algumas partes dependendo do autor… Mas, eu acho fascinante!

No próprio Reino Animmalia, o mais clássico que apreendemos, já me deu um susto: pelo menos 32 filos! Muito mais que os 9 clássicos kkkkkk

E só para deixar claro, é PLENAMENTE compreensível que na escola aprendamos apenas 9 filos do reino animalia, e que na faculdade não aprendamos TODOS os 32, afinal, boa parte deles só vai ter real importância para quem realmente trabalha com esses grupos, já que são, em grande maioria, vermes e outros seres pequenos que vivem no fundo de lagos, rios e oceanos, escondidos entre os grãos de areia!

Os 9 clássicos são animais GRANDES, que encontramos no dia a dia, interagimos, vemos na TV/internet, e as crianças e adolescentes devem conhecer ao menos o básico de cada um! Outros grupos, como os tartígrados, chamam a atenção pela fama inesperada. Já os rotiferos marcaram pessoalmente a minha mente, já que foi o grupo que “descobri” quando, pela PRIMEIRA vez, tive a oportunidade de ver e explorar uma lâmina com material fresco e VIVO (água de um lago). Agora, os grupos que eu não sei nem como tentar pronunciar, vou descobrir ao longo dessa jornada de estudo kkkkkk

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If there’s one thing my recent taxonomy obsession has driven home for me, it’s that the divisions of life are never what you (generic) might expect them to be. “Oh, I guess the two main groups of turtles are sea turtles and land turtles or true turtles and torteese or something” wrong it’s this

Speaking of taxonomy, these animals

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are some of each other’s closest relatives. In case you thought your family reunions were awkward

Mole cricket. Camel spider. Bearcat. What other combo-animal names are there?

realized i forgot to post my paleozoic evolutionary amphibian cladogram. this took like two days. from amphibian-like fish to the origin points of modern amphibians (speculative, i don’t think lissamphibia originates from a single group) to reptile-like amphibians to the origin point of reptiles ( = amniota)