God, Tolkien naming his book “The Hobbit” was such a big dick move. Like, back then people didn’t know what a hobbit was. It’d be like if I released a book called “The Smarple” and 50 years later everyone just knew what a smarple was.
Thanks for telling me I could add 41 minutes to my trip by exiting the freeway and doing a u-turn in the exact opposite direction of where I’m trying to go
If anyone tries to tell you that Shakespeare is stuffy or boring or highbrow, just remember that the word “nothing” was used in Elizabethan era slang as a euphemism for “vagina”.
Shakespeare has a play called “Much Ado About Nothing”, which you could basically read in modern slang as “Freaking Out Over Pussy”. And that’s pretty much exactly what happens in the play.
It’s also a pun with a third meaning. There’s the sex sense of much ado about “nothing”, there’s the obvious sense that people today see, and then there’s the fact that in Shakespeare’s day, “nothing” was pronounced pretty much the same as “noting”, which was a term used for gossip. So, “Flamewar Over Rumors” works as a title interpretation, too.
The reason we call Shakespeare a genius is that he can make a pussy joke in the same exact words he uses to make biting social commentary about letting unverified gossip take over the discourse.
Hey, hey, hey, you’re forgetting the fourth thing, that noting (again, pronounced note-ing) was a pun on music NOTES and that’s why there’s a shitload of singing and dancing and puns about singing and dancing because Much Ado About Noting is basically Freaking Out Over Pussy The Musical: Gossip Making a Mountain out of a Molehill.
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A newborn giraffe follows its mother outside into their enclosure for the first time at Artis Zoo in Amsterdam in 2018. Photo: Robin Van Lonkhuijsen/AFP/Getty Images
One-day-old baby giraffe calf Gus looks at the camera on May 12, 2017 in Bristol, England. Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images
The mottled spots giraffes are known for aren’t random, according to a new study that suggests the patterns are inherited maternally — and that they may impact the chances of a calf surviving its first few months of life.
The roundness and smoothness of a giraffe’s spots are inherited through its mother, wildlife biology researchers reported in the academic journal PeerJ last week.
Giraffe coat markings are more complex and variable than the eye suggests: The researchers studied 11 spot attributes in total. The researchers did not document any mother-offspring similarity between the number of spots and their area and perimeter.
The study has produced the first data of its kind. Scientists have previously hypothesized that variation in spot patterns may camouflage newborns against predators, and that the animals’ spots are conferred at random. One prominent biologist, Anne Dagg, described similarities between parents and offspring in a zoo population in 1968, but analysis and objective measurements of spot characteristics were lacking in wild giraffes until now.
First photo: Robin Van Lonkhuijsen/AFP/Getty Images
Second photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images
This is such cool science!
The researchers basically defined a bunch of different characteristics of giraffe spots – such as size, length of perimeter, smoothness, roundness, ect – and used an image program to compare the spots from mothers and their calves to see how similar the types of spots on the animals were.
The researchers don’t have any way to know for sure what benefits are conferred by inheritable spot patterns yet, the was some correlation between spot sizes and shapes and the survival rates of the calves. It’s possible that this is because certain types of coat patterns (called phenotypes) confer better camouflage than others, but they haven’t ruled out other aspects of survival that are influence by coat coloring.
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