EH S3 E22: We Don't monitize anything at EH but you could still send a check. your mother would be proud of you.
the Onion reports:
Santa Tracker Shows Sleigh Stopped For 40 Minutes Outside Old Girlfriend’s House
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AKRON, OH—Using the icon of a sleigh to denote his unmistakable presence near a residence in northeastern Ohio, NORAD’s official tracking app confirmed that Santa Claus paid a visit to his former girlfriend’s house around 3 a.m. Wednesday. “With our state-of-the-art satellite technology, we can see that ol’ St. Nick parked his reindeer on the roof and took a chimney straight down into the living room of a woman he used to know back in his single days,” said chief technologist Tom Chrzanowski, noting that the jolly old elf only visited the home of his old flame Sheila Bickford after first stopping at a local bar where he reportedly gathered his courage by consuming a few double eggnogs. “Children tracking Santa’s whereabouts at home on their iPads will be relieved to know longer visits to this location do not mean another kid is getting more presents than they are. Santa’s last visit to his ex’s house was in March 2006, when our radar detected him sneaking out his window while Mrs. Claus was asleep.” At press time, NORAD’S tracker confirmed Santa’s location for the foreseeable future would be the basement couch of his North Pole residence.
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Moths hear plants screaming
For the first time, scientists have confirmed that female moths can hear and respond to ultrasonic distress signals emitted by plants under stress. Researchers have found that when plants experience dehydration or heat stress, they produce ultrasonic sounds inaudible to humans but detectable by moths. Female moths use these sounds to avoid laying their eggs on stressed plants, which would likely provide poor conditions for their offspring’s survival. This discovery marks the first clear evidence of acoustic interaction between plants and animals.
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Experiments showed that moths consistently preferred healthy plants over those emitting distress calls. When their hearing was blocked, moths no longer showed this preference, suggesting that hearing plays a crucial role in their decision-making process. The researchers used specialized recording equipment to capture the distress sounds in the 20 to 100 kHz frequency range and confirmed consistent patterns across different plant species.
This acoustic signaling could have broader ecological impacts, influencing food webs by determining which plants insects choose for feeding or egg-laying, and shaping predator-prey interactions. Beyond ecology, this finding has practical implications for agriculture, potentially enabling sound-based methods to protect crops by deterring pests through broadcasting plant distress signals. This could help reduce pesticide use while aligning with the natural behaviors of insects. With climate change increasing plant stress from droughts and heatwaves, understanding how animals respond to these acoustic signals is increasingly urgent. This pioneering research, published in the journal eLife, transforms views of silent ecosystems into vibrant acoustic networks critical for survival and adaptation.
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