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“Octopuses normally hunt alone, but footage captured by divers has revealed that they can collaborate with fish to find their next meal. The videos, described today in Nature Ecology & Evolution (citation 1), show that the different species even adopt specific roles to maximize the success of joint hunting expeditions.”...

Some Florida school districts are rolling back a more comprehensive approach to sex education in favor of abstinence-focused lessons under pressure from state officials who have labeled certain instruction on contraception, anatomy and consent as inappropriate for students....

All districts are now required to promote abstinence, exclude consent, and remove any pictures of reproductive organs....

I’ll note that the NYT changed the title from “Putin is Hunting Down Ordinary People” to “Putin Is Doing Something Almost Nobody Is Noticing”

many interesting pictures

“The man destroyed the large blue and white Porcelain Cube at a busy private opening for the exhibition “Who am I?” at Palazzo Fava in Bologna on the evening of September 21. Local police arrested a 57-year-old Czech man who has been identified in Italian media as Vaclav Pisvejc, a provocateur and self-proclaimed artist...

All that's left of the Russian missile silo is a big hole in the ground.

Some of the world’s largest companies have been accused of undermining democracy across the world by financially backing far-right political movements, funding and exacerbating the climate crisis, and violating trade union rights and human rights in a report published on Monday by the International Trade Union Confederation...

According to Reserve Major General Yaakov Amidror, the former Security Advisor and head of the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate’s Research Department, “Israel” is not even close to destroying Hezbollah’s capabilities....

They are two competing views on where desk-based employees work best....

When German journalist Martin Bernklautyped his name and location into Microsoft’s Copilot to see how his articles would be picked up by the chatbot, the answers horrified him. Copilot’s results asserted that Bernklau was an escapee from a psychiatric institution, a convicted child abuser, and a conman preying on widowers....

U.S. officials have presented a new proposal to Türkiye aimed at resolving the long-standing dispute over Ankara’s purchase of the Russian S-400 air defense system, claimed Greek media....