Look at the wings of this fly It’s called Goniurellia tridens, each wing has a detailed image of an ant, flashing its wings gives the appearance of ants walking Most of its predators would want to avoid a confrontation with the stings of ants 1/🧵 📸 bit.ly/3NXxTPq

Fruit salad trees, developed by an Australian family in the early 1990s, are capable of bearing many different types of fruit on them at the same time - including apples, oranges, mandarins, lemons, limes, grapefruit and peaches [read more: buff.ly/2QURTHk]

These are baby stingrays. They look like aliens stuck in ravioli.

Inventions that would not exist without Black Women. —A THREAD— Valerie Thomas, NASA physicist, invented 3D Movies In 1977, she began to develop the illusion transmitter, the 1st mechanism that allowed images to be viewed in 3D using concave mirrors & rays of light.

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This is an important and genius piece of music!

On December 4, 1969, Black Panther leader Fred Hampton was murdered by police. "We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism."

Looking forward to having a drink here when I'm in Lawrence again!

Two defendants plan to give public apologies Saturday for their theft of Indigenous artwork from KU’s campus last year. For two others accused of vandalizing the artwork, their criminal cases have just begun.  lawrenceks.news/3HpRSFp

Rich people desire authenticity, which can't be bought, more than anything else.

Thank you for being a part of the SIMS Foundation family and choosing to support our work! Your year-end gift will ensure that everyone in our music community has access to the mental health and substance use recovery services they need. Donate: bit.ly/3gmvvpc

I gotta say. It’s a beautiful thing to watch the new generation love my aunt Alice. When she was here, all they wanted to talk to her about was John Coltrane. It’s different now. Her message has spread further than ever and felt by so many ❤️

Elijah is a young Diné oboist who lives on the Navajo Reservation and needs a new instrument to pursue his dreams of oboe performance. I just kicked in 20 bucks, and I'd love it if some of you could spare a donation to help this musician. - TMN Admin gofund.me/96b597bf

Welcome to 2023, let's all take care of our mental health this year, how bout it?

Discovered by researchers with the Census of Marine Life at a depth of 2,750 meters, this sea cucumber is so transparent that its digestive tract is on spectacular display [read more: ow.ly/pwZG50xRzLv]

This is a lobster (Panulirus ornatus ) 📸Image via fr-fr.facebook.com/avantgardens.o…

Holy shit there's another Chinese balloon in Montana.

This funny looking squid is about the size of a small avocado and can be found in the deepwater of all oceans. Due to its aspect, Helicocranchia pfefferi is called the piglet squid [more: buff.ly/2vaYxNP] [📹 MBARI: buff.ly/3KcUM1A]

#OTD My great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack was beheaded on Hitler’s direct order. Born in Milwaukee, she graduated from the University of Wisconsin & moved to Germany to pursue a PhD. As an American grad student in Berlin, she witnessed a rapid increase in Hitler's popularity. 1/12