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Jessica Paré - New York Magazine by Zachary Scott, May 2012
Paré laughs easily and often, despite a case of extreme jet lag. Bali is fifteen hours...
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Snoring hummingbird snores |
Solid article in the 16 January issue of the New Yorker about the rise of YouTube and the fragmentation of audiences. Who knew this snoring little bugger was such a threat? And I quote:
Like television itself, the business of TV advertising has had to learn to cope with audience fragmentation. Through the nineteen-sixties and seventies, it was not unusual for the three major networks to capture eighty-five to ninety per cent of the available prime-time audience. That made it possible for advertisers to create national brands.
In the eighties, as cable caught on, with channels like CNN, TBS, MTV, and Lifetime, it began to chip off pieces of the audience from the networks. “The Cosby Show” was the last TV series to command a mass following. During the 1985-86 season, more than thirty per cent of all households with televisions tuned in. (Last year, “American Idol,” the most popular show on TV today, pulled in fewer than nine per cent of all television viewers in the U.S.)
Gabriel Pacheco is a Mexican illustrator. He became a published artist after his sister asked him to illustrate a story. Pacheco continued to explore his native talent and created a splendid portfolio of illustrations for children books, poetry volumes and fantastic literature. [more work]
Toronto-based artist Nicholas Di Genova illustrates incredible hybrid creatures using nothing more than ink on paper.
It is no more important to count the sands than it is to name the stars.
“ Family planning campaigners looking for a mascot should consider the eastern diamond-backed rattlesnake. A female of the species can store sperm in her body for at least five years before using it.
The rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus) in question was collected in Florida in 2005 and kept in a private collection for five years, with no contact with other snakes. In late 2010, she unexpectedly gave birth to 19 snakelets. To find out what had happened, Warren Booth of North Carolina State University in Raleigh took samples of DNA from the mother and her young.
Booth studies “virgin birth”, in which a female produces young without any contribution from a male. But in this case the snakelets carried genes that their mother didn’t, so she must have mated before she was captured and stored the sperm (Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01782.x).
Previous studies have hinted that reptiles can store sperm for several years, but this is the first case confirmed by genetics. Booth suspects other reptiles can store sperm even longer. “How long is anyone’s guess,” he says.” continue reading | New Scientist
[title: The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster]
