Day 4141: Strange Facts and Eye Check.

 

   

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Over the past year, the writers on The Atlantic’s Science, Technology, and Health desk have learned a lot. Along the way, our reporting has revealed some fascinating, sobering, and unusual facts. We wanted to share some of the most intriguing tidbits we’ve stumbled across, and we hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

1. Mars has seasons, and in the winter, it snows.
2. Bats are arguably the healthiest mammals on Earth.
3. Mammal milk changes depending on the time of day, a baby’s age and sex, the mom’s diet, and more.
4. The genetic mutation behind “Asian glow” might help protect people against certain pathogens—including tuberculosis.
5. The overwhelming majority of sweaters available on the American mass market are made at least partly of plastic.
6. In 2003, a NASA Investigation Board blamed the disintegration of the space shuttle Columbia in part on PowerPoint.
7. As much as 36 percent of the world’s annual carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil fuels are sequestered, at least temporarily, in fungi.
8. Mice and rats can’t vomit.
9. In the 1930s, the U.S. Army considered distributing daily rations of yerba mate to soldiers.

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I went to the eye doctor today. I couldn't remember if they said to wear my contacts or glasses? So I wore contacts and took glasses.

I think they were all in that holiday fog, the time between Christmas and New Years . They had tested my eyes last time and I was supposed to come in for contact testing. I had a long wait and when I get tired of waiting, I get out my phone to take photos.

  

  

  

 

 

 

Now you know what I saw during the 30 minute wait. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

A 1 minute video, dancing lemur, here.

 

 

  

 

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Austraalasian crested Grebe

 

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