How much force must a penguin apply in order to blast a flying poop projectile, and how far can it travel? Fortunately for us all, scientists now have answers. Source: https://www.livescience.com/pengins-projectile-poo.html
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Penguins can fire their own droppings over 4ft
If there’s one place you don’t want to stand, it’s within around 4ft of the back of a Humboldt penguin. In what is surely one of the strangest studies… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/338042/penguins-can-fire-their-own-droppings-over-4ft…
Emperor penguins are good dads
On this Father’s day, a special shout-out to one of the most exceptional dads in nature, emperor penguins. They endure the harshest winter conditions on Earth for their offspring. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/male-penguin-eggs…
Internet Archive Kills Its Free Digital Library Over Copyright Concerns
The Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library is finished. The non-profit repository for digital preservation, which began offering millions of e-books for free to address the closure of libraries during the pandemic, buckled under a joint lawsuit filed by major publishers including Penguin Random House and HarperCollins. From a report: Publishers said lending out books without compensation was “mass copyright infringement.” The…
Disney Forces Explicit Club Penguin Clones Offline
“Disney has ordered unauthorized copies of its Club Penguin game to close, after the BBC found children were being exposed to explicit messages,” the British publication reports. The social network was shut down by Disney in 2017, causing unofficial clones of the website to launch on private servers using stolen or copied source code. The BBC reports: Visits to fan-run Club…
Watch 2 penguins explore closed Chicago aquarium
You’ll love this video of a couple of penguins openly exploring Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, closed due to COVID-19. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/penguins-explore-closed-aquarium-video…
Jackass penguins have a jackass language not so different from English
The braying songs of African ‘jackass’ penguins follow two extremely common rules of human language, a new study confirms. Source: https://www.livescience.com/jackass-penguin-linguistic-rules.html
Audible Settles Copyright Lawsuit With Publishers Over Audiobook Captions
After months of back and forth, Audible has settled in a copyright lawsuit with major publishers over its plan to introduce captions to their recordings, a proposal that the publishing houses argued was simply reading. The Guardian reports: In July, the audiobook company owned by Amazon announced Captions, an additional function for the existing app that would allow customers to read…
Smelly, poisonous molecule may be a sure-fire sign of extraterrestrial life
Phosphine is among the stinkiest, most toxic gases on Earth, found in some of the foulest of places, including penguin dung heaps, the depths of swamps and bogs, and even in the bowels of some badgers and fish. This putrid “swamp gas” is also highly flammable and reactive with particles in our atmosphere. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-12-smelly-poisonous-molecule-sure-fire-extraterrestrial.html…
‘Gay’ Penguin Couple Had No Egg of Their Own. So They Stole One.
A pair of mated male penguins in a Dutch zoo were so eager for offspring that they stole an egg from another couple’s nest. Source: https://www.livescience.com/gay-penguins-steal-egg.html