Vintage Poster on the Life Length of Various Animals There a few things to note from this. Firstly, birds seem to live for longer than you’d imagine (geese can live for 50 years? That really makes polishing them off after a few years for food and feathers seem a lot crueller for some reason doesn’t it?) Also, no animals live for between 70 and 150 years? Seems a little weird. Those tortoises have really got this living for a long time thing sorted.

Vintage Poster on the Life Length of Various Animals

There a few things to note from this. Firstly, birds seem to live for longer than you’d imagine (geese can live for 50 years? That really makes polishing them off after a few years for food and feathers seem a lot crueller for some reason doesn’t it?) Also, no animals live for between 70 and 150 years? Seems a little weird. Those tortoises have really got this living for a long time thing sorted.

Source: Laughing Squid

What do you have to do to get some applause around here?

Craig Venter holds a press conference where he announces that he’s synthesised life, and encoded the English language into the DNA of a cell, and right at the end he gets a lacklustre round of applause.

Steve Jobs announces that he’s eventually worked out how to enable multi-tasking on a subset of iPhones, and the crowd goes wild.

It’s a strange world.

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."
– Albert Einstein, Letter to his son
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