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Dr. Christopher G. Brown, Georgia Gwinnett College
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Adam S, Campos M, Heron HDC, Staines CL, Westerduijn R, Chaboo CS. 2022. Natural history of Cassida sphaerula Boheman, 1854 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Cassidini) on Arctotheca prostrata (Salisb.) Britten (Asteraceae: Arctotidinae) in South Africa, with a checklist of South African Cassidinae (leaf-mining and tortoise beetles). Insecta Mundi 0945: 1–23.

Caveney S, h. Faecal firing in a skipper caterpillar is pressure-driven. J Exp Biol. 1998 Jan;201 (Pt 1):121-33. doi: 10.1242/jeb.201.1.121.

Essner RL Jr, Pereira REE, Blackburn DC, Singh AL, Stanley EL, Moura MO, Confetti AE, Pie MR. Semicircular canal size constrains vestibular function in miniaturized frogs. Sci Adv. 2022 Jun 17;8(24):eabn1104. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abn1104. 

Essner, R.L., Suffian, D.J., Bishop, P.J. et al. Landing in basal frogs: evidence of saltational patterns in the evolution of anuran locomotion. Naturwissenschaften 97, 935–939 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-010-0697-4

Goutte, S., Mason, M.J., Antoniazzi, M.M. et al. Intense bone fluorescence reveals hidden patterns in pumpkin toadlets. Sci Rep 9, 5388 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41959-8

Goutte, S., Mason, M.J., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J. et al. Evidence of auditory insensitivity to vocalization frequencies in two frogs. Sci Rep 7, 12121 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12145-5

Mattila HR, Otis GW, Nguyen LTP, Pham HD, Knight OM, Phan NT (2020) Honey bees (Apis cerana) use animal feces as a tool to defend colonies against group attack by giant hornets (Vespa soror). PLoS ONE 15(12): e0242668. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242668

Nunes I, Guimarães CS, Moura PHAG, Pedrozo M, Moroti MdT, Castro LM, et al. (2021) Hidden by the name: A new fluorescent pumpkin toadlet from the Brachycephalus ephippium group (Anura: Brachycephalidae). PLoS ONE 16(4): e0244812. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244812

Reilly, Stephen, Richard Essner, Sally Wren, Luke Easton, Phillip J. Bishop, Movement patterns in leiopelmatid frogs: Insights into the locomotor repertoire of basal anurans, Behavioural Processes, Volume 121, 2015, Pages 43-53, ISSN 0376-6357, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2015.10.001.

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Depressingly true.
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10/10 can confirm.
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Yep
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Pure, unadulterated truth
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Arguably, if we punched _enough_ computers, we could do something about a major source of our discontent.
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This may explain why I prefer the big bulky but indestructable thinkpads over ultrabooks
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German Design Council gives Award to Bionic Reading

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Bionic Reading is an excellent system that revises texts so that the most concise parts of words are highlighted. This guides the eye over the text and the brain remembers previously learned words more quickly. The eye is guided through the text by means of typographic highlights. With the interplay of “Fixation”, “Saccade” and “Opacity” visual stimuli can be transferred to the text, which decisively change the typeface. The company has an online convertor that will take your existing ebooks and convert them to the new text system. A couple of months ago they released apps for Android and iOS. This week, Bionic Reading has just won a major award from the German Design Council.

In a statement from the the jury, Rat für Formgebung – German Design Council: “Modern people are confronted with an abundance of digital texts every day that require a lot of time to read and understand. The Bionic Reading app helps to read texts faster and thus takes the stress out of everyday life. The system highlights first letters in the text, which the eye sees more quickly than the whole word. The brain completes the missing part of the word. This makes it easy to skim through texts without missing important details. As this way of reading trains the brain with each word, reading becomes increasingly fluent and faster. The level of difficulty can be individually adjusted to the needs of the reader and continuously increased. It’s a fascinating tool that not only saves a lot of time but also impressively demonstrates what our brain is capable of.”

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Our investigation into whining-based remedies became the first study to be halted by the IRB on the grounds that the treatment group was 'too annoying.'
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Our investigation into whining-based remedies became the first study to be halted by the IRB on the grounds that the treatment group was 'too annoying.'
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