RSSMexican-American border (US on the left, Mexico on the right)
Paedophryne amauensis
Paedophryne amauensis is a species of frog from Papua New Guinea discovered in August 2009 and formally described in January 2012. At 7.7 mm (0.30 in) in length, it is the world’s smallest known vertebrate.
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The frog lives on land and its life cycle does not include a tadpole stage. Instead, members of this species hatch as ‘hoppers’—being fully formed adults. They are capable of jumping thirty times their body length.
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Unknown known
Unknown knowns are the things that we know, but are unaware of knowing. The coining of the term is attributed to Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek and it refers to the unconscious beliefs and prejudices that determine how we perceive reality and intervene in it. It is the Freudian unconscious, the “knowledge which doesn’t know itself.”
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Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
Proverb
Tea fields in Japan
“The Journal of Recreational Mathematics published this remarkable magic square, composed by ‘a puzzlist who at the time was a prison inmate.’
The large 13 x 13 square is magic — that is, each row and column adds to the same sum — but so is each successive nested square, from 11 x 11 down to 3 x 3.
The magic constant of each square is 10,874 smaller than the last.
And every cell is prime.”
Bearded dragon playing a video game
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