You would be surprised at the amount of attitude birds have here. Usually magpies get a gangsta reputation but do you know who nobody messes up with? Lorikeets.
Oh so this is cause of concern outside of Australia? Wait until you hear about budgie smugglers mate
This looks really cool, looking forward to the spider version
Maybe not exactly big news, but ever since the internet became a thing, information started to flow a lot faster and farther than before. You may have a point, and this article is more an opinion than anything but I don't think it's unreasonable. Here's why:
Scientists and academics are used to think and develop concepts and ideas for decades. As individuals, each usually has a very firm stance on one particular issue, but as a collective, the sciences will keep several contradictory hypothesis in consideration for a long time until there is enough evidence to cement a theory. And even then, there's always some whacky theory floating around.
The general public on the other hand, isn't used to this kind of nuance. Most pre internet people see " scientific publication = truthful fact " as this is more or less what they grew up with. They didn't stay in school long enough to see their textbooks get updated, had no easy access to new research contradicting the mainstream.
Today there is an overabundance of information floating around, especially online, and tons of articles based off on scientific papers which most people take for gospel without any understanding of how the scientific body of knowledge grows over time. Add to that the noise caused by pseudoexperts and conspiracy theorists and... would you like a cup of Ivermectin?
I'm jealous... Enjoy the nachos movie night!
I remember liking colors since age 3. That doesn't mean I have developed a sense of taste about them. Those are two very different things. Perhaps your kids are right? Perhaps not. A lot of people never learn to combine colors in what's considered a pleasant manner, but what matters is that they are happy with their choices.
I've experienced this phenomenon as well and I'm always wondering if people become more naïve as they age or if this is, in fact, too much information for people from another era to process.
To use the bins/trash cans and stop littering. Especially on beaches, parks, reserves and on the motorway.
Fascinating stuff but is this a global chart or is it limited to a single country? Or hemisphere?
The allergy part may sound outlandish but it happened to me with headphones. They were made of some kind of rubbery plastic which was absolutely fine for the first 2 years I used them, and then they became impossible to wear. Cleaning the headphones did nothing and the allergy got pretty gross, I had to see a doctor. Fortunately an ointment fixed my ears but I had to get new headphones. My guess is that the material they were made of started to degrade/change chemically with time, like faux leather and rubber does, and my skin developed an allergy to it.
Does it happen en masse or does each woman have their own heat season? Say, does everyone go crazy during the same 2-3 weeks or does it vary per person like it happens with periods?
In the masse heat I think there would be some obvious differences in stuff like festivities and each culture would adapt to these seasons. There would be a need to gather and store resources before the rut, and also to be prepared for the inevitable birthing en masse to come. We would probably have public holidays for the mating seasons and festivities for birthing season. In contemporary times, hospitals would need to do some heavy work planning and preparing maternity ward space to accommodate the seasonal influx. That's just what pops to mind.
Not too sure about the differences in the second case though. One option is, women would be allowed to retreat from society and become hermits during heat if they want to avoid pregnancy and this would be totally normal. Or, some cultures would lock them to prevent them getting pregnant. Coming to think of it, I think having women randomly in some kind of irresistible heat like this would be very disruptive and impossible to prepare for so I don't see much happening in the way of gender equality and women's rights sadly. I'm inclined to think the re would be a lot of gender based extreme segregation.
The Lion King and Shrooms. No, not together