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I was going to make fun of the title (which is basically "Sick ants stink, the others don't like it and make it stop") but IMO this is the important bit:

Then, the team conducted an experiment showing that the sick pupae only produce the smell when worker ants are nearby, proving it is a deliberate signal for destruction.

That does go beyond just smelling bad due to illness.

Everyone makes mistakes

Except psychopaths who know their claim is garbage but lie through their teeth to get it published. That's not a mistake, that's corruption.

your brain does that, not the speaker

This is fascinating. I never realized that sound is processed like this. Not that different from sight then, which is processing a bunch of electromagnetic frequencies.

So it's not the record or the CD or whatever that is magic. It's our brains. Holy shit that is so cool. Thank you for explaining it so well!

Oh ok, I thought you meant pulling the eyeballs "inwards" as in towards the back of your head! What you describe, I'd normally call "crossing" my eyes.

Moving your eyes inwards

Details, please. 🤨

I just tried that and I can definitely say the closure happens at the pharynx for me, which is also what I do consciously when I hold my breath.

I am intimately familiar with that feeling. Because it's not just popcorn that causes it. In apples, the seed chambers are lined with a hard membrane that is extremely similar in size and texture to a popcorn hull. If you bite too close to the core, or if you eat apple slices from uncored apples, youwill get one stuck in your throat.

I like him too.

The answer was in us all along.

Today is my birthday and this is very much how I feel about growing older. It's not at all what I thought it would be.

It says a lot about the culture of the 60s and/or Pohl himself, that the first conceivable use for "instant ordering" would be for drugs.