Published on: 2025-05-17 09:50:11
Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) are tremendously fond of fermented foodstuffs. Technically, it's the yeast they crave, produced by yummy rotting fruit, but they can consume quite a lot of ethanol as a result of that fruity diet. Yes, fruit flies have ultra-fast metabolisms, the better to burn off the booze, but they can still get falling-down drunk—so much so, that randy inebriated male fruit flies have been known to court other males by mistake and fail to mate successfully. Then again,
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Some male octopuses tend to get eaten by their sexual partners, but male blue-lined octopuses avoid this fate with help from one of nature’s most potent venoms A male blue-lined octopus mounts a female during mating and injects venom into her body WEN-SUNG CHUNG During mating, some male octopuses inject females with their potent venom to paralyse them – and avoid being eaten by their mates. Typically, animals use venom to kill prey or defend themselves from predators. Some species of pufferfi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 21:15:21
Along with Northern Mockingbirds, Gray Catbirds are well-known North American mimics. Photo by Jim via Birdshare. Although some birds learn their species’ song during their first year of life, others, including mockingbirds, continue adding to their repertoire as they grow older. Northern Mockingbirds can learn as many as 200 songs, and often mimic sounds in their environment including other birds, car alarms, and creaky gates. One theory is that if a female prefers males who sing more songs, a
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Meghan Markle is launching a new podcast entitled “Confessions of a Female Founder,” which will hear the duchess talking about her entrepreneurial journey. It will also feature talks with other female founders about the reality of building a business, according to People magazine. The show will premiere April 8th on Lemonada Media and will have eight episodes. “I’ve been having candid conversations with amazing women who have turned dreams into realities, and scaled small ideas into massively s
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VSC "I might have to wait, I'll never give up. I guess it's half timing, and the other half is luck..." -Michael Buble VSC (VOUGA-SHREINER-CANTH) Verified is A real-time 3D rendering engine written entirely using software with the intention of being portable. Inspired by DoomGeneric with its rather novel approach to separating the backend from the frontend. Also self-inspired by my (NormalExisting's) other C++ backends mostly for games/clones such as The Witness and Chess. This is a rasteriz
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Women founders and investors raised $38.8 billion in funding in the U.S. in 2024, up 27% from the year before, according to PitchBook. The report was created by PitchBook Data’s Nizar Tarhuni, Paul Condra and Garrett Black. The number of transactions involving women founders is down 13.1%, as deal activity continued to concentrate among a smaller population of companies. Overall, female founders took home a smaller share of total U.S. VC funding for the year in terms of both deal count and val
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Venture investment in startups run by women has always lagged the overall market, and with companies across sectors cutting back on their diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, things seem grimmer than ever for female founders. But the data tells a different tale for 2024 — at least according to this one report by European venture platform Female Foundry: Venture investment to startups founded by women in Europe declined 12% in 2024 from a year earlier, but it was nearly in line with the 11%
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