Really interested to see black eye gannets in Orkney. Researchers at the Bass Rock think it’s linked to bird flu survival post HPAIV infection. Black iris gannets had antibodies for HPAIV showing they had previously been infected and survived! Nothing out yet about how and why their eyes change like that, but very intersting
I played Symphonia through dolphin with some friends a while back and sure it’s got some compelling story beats or characters or whatever but also the emulator somehow constantly fucking up textboxes was amazing. I could never replay this game through an official release cause it wouldn’t tell me I Foiled ot moking Sondwich.
The “bats can do calculus” thing is funny, because if you play around with synths for a while, you realize a lot of what humans perceive as “natural” sounds are just us directly perceiving certain complex mathematical things as big gestalt gestures. Like recognizing a multiplied wave as sounding like a woodwind. Hearing individual notes within a chord is basically Fourier analysis. Feeling how naturally a note decays is perceiving how linear or exponential the curve is. The fact that a sine wave sounds smooth but a sawtooth wave sounds nasally, and a square wave has a certain hollow fuzz to it. Is someone doing “math” there? Once you get the flavor of what each of those qualities are like, listening to the world becomes like directly perceiving math. Also, listening to birds becomes very strange. Because you realize some goofy easy weird sound you can squelch out of an analog synth is the same thing a bird is doing. Then sometimes they make a sound you can’t make. What kind of math is that bird on? Makes you wonder.
This is my personal blog! I haven't got any other blogs so everything comes into a mash here. The Important Tags are up top. Currently I'm very Guild Wars 2, feel free to ask if we can meet in-game, I like people! Enjoy, y'all.
