"Octopuses would also punch fish to keep the group moving. If the group is very still and everyone is..."
“Octopuses would also punch fish to keep the group moving. If the group is very still and everyone is around the octopus, it starts punching, but if the group is moving along the habitat, this means that they’re looking for prey, so the octopus is happy. It doesn’t punch anyone,” Sampaio said.” - Octopuses seen hunting with fish and punching fish that don’t cooperate
“Most fields have a problem with ‘ghost knowledge’, hard-won practical understanding that is mostly passed on verbally between practitioners and not written down anywhere public.”
Not Built For This is a 6-part series from 99% Invisible. It explores how climate change is laying bare the vulnerabilities in the American built environment and how communities across the country have been left to bootstrap their own survival.
Flip through (YouTube) channels like the old days. /via bencrowder.net
Photo by Asako Narahashi from her collection half awake and half asleep in the water. /via notes.husk.org
“I like to describe my job in terms of “The Door Problem”. Are there doors in your game? Can the player open them? Can the player open every door in the game? Or are some doors for decoration? How does the player know the difference?”
A new edition of Things to Click! This edition covers an 8-bit lens, community connection, research as fun, suburbs' as horror movies, and more - all jam-packed!
American suburbs are full of ugly, empty, liminal spaces: spaces you are not meant to linger in or enjoy. They’re the creepy hallways of the built environment, and you can’t feel comfortable traversing them unless you’re zooming past them in a car.
American Suburbs Are a Horror Movie and We’re the Protagonists
This Crystal Fragment turns everything you see into 8-bit Pixel Art. /via bencrowder.net