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Friday, February 17, 2017
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Today in History
| 1454 | At a grand feast, Philip the Good of Burgundy takes the “vow of the pheasant,” by which he swears to fight the Turks. | |
| 1598 | Boris Godunov, the boyar of Tarar origin, is elected czar in succession to his brother-in-law Fydor. | |
| 1720 | Spain signs the Treaty of the Hague with the Quadruple Alliance ending a war that was begun in 1718. | |
| 1801 | The House of Representatives breaks an electoral college tie and chooses Thomas Jefferson over Aaron Burr. | |
| 1864 | The Confederate submarine Hunley sinks the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. | |
| 1865 | The South Carolina capital city, Columbia, is destroyed by fire as Major General William Tecumseh Sherman marches through. | |
| 1909 | Apache chief Geronimo dies of pneumonia at age 80, while still in captivity at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. | |
| 1919 | Germany signs an armistice giving up territory in Poland. | |
| 1925 | The first issue of Harold Ross’ magazine, The New Yorker, hits the stands, selling for 15 cents a copy. | |
| 1933 | The League of Nations censures Japan in a worldwide broadcast. | |
| 1935 | Thirty-one prisoners escape an Oklahoma prison after murdering a guard. | |
| 1938 | The first color television is demonstrated at the Dominion Theatre in London. | |
| 1944 | U.S forces land on Eniwetok atoll in the South Pacific. | |
| 1945 | Gen. MacArthur’s troops land on Corregidor in the Philippines. | |
| 1951 | Packard introduces its “250” Chassis Convertible. | |
| 1955 | Britain announces its ability to make hydrogen bombs. | |
| 1959 | The United States launches its first weather station in space, Vanguard II. | |
| 1960 | Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested in the Alabama bus boycott. | |
| 1963 | Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visits the Berlin Wall. | |
| 1969 | Russia and Peru sign their first trade accord. | |
| 1973 | Nixon names Patrick Gray director of the FBI. | |
| 1975 | Art by Cezanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and van Gogh, valued at $5 million, is stolen from the Municipal Museum in Milan. | |
| 1979 | China begins a “pedagogical” war against Vietnam. It will last until March. | |
| 1985 | Murray Haydon becomes the third person to receive an artificial heart. |
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Ancient Amazonian Afgroforestry
It wasn't until the late 1970's that deforestation first revealed the geoglyphs hiding under upland rainforest. Covering more than 5,000 sq. miles in the Brazilian state of Acre, more than 450 large-scale earthworks...
A relatively heavy charcoal layer suggests that the new residents cleared the bamboo forest with fire, letting the fast-growing palm trees spring up to fill the space left behind. Over the long term, one would expect the palms to be overtaken by slower-growing plants, but that’s not what the team found.
Instead palms flourished for three thousand years, likely encouraged by the human newcomers, who could use them for food and building material. Dr. Watling suspects they engaged in practices including planting seeds, transplanting saplings, and weeding out undesirable plant species, as well as light burning and farming. She calls these techniques agroforestry: “[maintaining] the forest but [changing] its species composition to make it a more livable place.”
More Here.
Check out the terra preta Wikipedia page.
Stuff in Space
Squirrel Attacks Burglar
He should get a "Beware of Squirrel" sign to warn off any future home invaders. Joey is now regarded as a hero.
This Beetle Pretends to be an Ant's Butt
A newly-discovered species of beetle manages to benefit from army ants by riding around on them. Nymphister kronaueri is a small red beetle that clamps its jaws around the waist of the army ant Eciton burchellii and
tags along, unseen because it looks like the ant's normal backside.
Science writer Ed Yong calls it "A prosthetic posterior. A gluteus
extraneous. A beetlebum." Christoph von Beeren and Daniel Kronauer
discovered the beetle in 2014 in Costa Rica while following the
relentless army ants. Von Beeren and Kronauer were also relentless. They would watch the ants for hours at a time, sitting in fold-up chairs in the pitch-black jungle, and peering at the legions through headlights. One day in the spring of 2014, they realized that some of the ants looked a little odd. “The abdomens reflected the light differently, and the color was a little different,” says von Beeren. “Then, we noticed that they looked like they have two abdomens.”Not much is known yet about the beetle. Does it benefit by hiding in plain sight? Does it eat what the ants eat? Read what we do know about the butt beetle at The Atlantic. -via Metafilter
They collected some of these dual-derriered insects and put them in a vial. Back at camp, Kronauer shook the vial… and the back-up backside fell off. It was a beetle. “And it blew our minds,” says von Beeren. After working with USDA entomologist Alexey Tishechkin, he realized that the bonus-butt beetle was new to science. And he named it Nymphister kronaueri, after his colleague Kronauer, who helped to discover it.
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