This is the fruit of the Pollia condensate plant, which looks like a collection of iridescent marbles. Their beauty is the secret to their survival-particularly considering they offer no nutritional value.
The plants berries, which contain no pigment, are extremely attractive to birds. Their seeds are contained within the berry and are then distributed when they are snatched, presumably to add some bling to a nest or to help attract a mate.
Their unique appearance is the result of specially structured layers of cellulose which reflect light. Thicker layers of this cellulose reflect red and green while thinner layers shine blue. Unlike pigments, since the shine is produced by the structure of the cellulose it never fades as long as the cellulose structures remain intact.
Human fingers can detect nano-size
objects. This means you not only
have the ability to feel a tiny bump
the size of a large molecule, but if
your finger was the size of Earth,
you could determine the difference
between a house and a car. Source
And yet its still almost impossible to find the end of the tape
cowards. i can already tell the difference between a house and a car
To be honest.. if more children were shown from birth that they are loved, cared for, and listened no matter their gender we might not have some of the problems we have now.
The royal wedding is costing us taxpayers approx. £32million.
The homeless of Windsor have been removed from the town, but ‘well wishers’ have been allowed to sleep on the pavement of the last few days.
The homeless have also had all their belongings, literally everything they own, taken from them, only to be given back after the wedding.
Some of the people camping out actually have bought and paid for hotel rooms sitting empty, but the press are still calling them ‘brave souls’ for sleeping out on the street.
A lot of Windsor’s homeless are ex service men and women.
The death of 10 teens in Texas and the plane crash in Cuba have barely been mentioned on the news this morning.
So between the white woman who called the cops on a black family having a BBQ in a park, the white man threatening to call ICE in nyc on Latina women for speaking Spanish, and a white woman literally yelling for the cops while screaming “gun!” on a black man for making a u turn in their neighborhood should educate us all that white people are realizing that institutional racism is real but they are using it for their own white supremacist social benefit.
They are calling for the authorities knowing that the cops will take their side and will either arrest or murder people of color for simply being seen or heard.
I’m seeing a lot of posts cross my dash recommending that people replace Microsoft Office with OpenOffice in light of Microsoft’s new terms of service.
OpenOffice is abandonware that hasn’t seen an update in seven years!
Please do not install it. Instead install LibreOffice which is the exact same software plus seven years of updates.
What happened was Oracle acquired OpenOffice when they bought Sun Microsystems but didn’t really have any interest in maintaining it so they abandoned it. Because OpenOffice was an open source project the community was able to just pick it up and continue development. However, because Oracle never gave up the ‘OpenOffice’ trademark the community project could not use the name ‘OpenOffice.’
You can still download OpenOffice but it is no longer being maintained. If you want the up-to-date branch you should be installing LibreOffice. It is the same software.
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