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Posts by Dan Smith

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BBC News - Apple AI tool transcribed the word 'racist' as 'Trump'
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Could $5,000 DOGE stimulus checks really happen? Here's what we know. President Trump has floated the idea of giving taxpayers a $5,000 refund check as a dividend from savings created by DOGE. Here's what to know.

Is Musk really proposing Universal Basic Income? Had it really been a cunning ploy all along by Bernie Sanders in a rubber mask?

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Keir Starmer pledges to close loophole that let Gazan family settle in UK The family won an appeal to come to the UK, after originally applying through a scheme for Ukrainians.

I hate the way politicians talk about refugees. It's sickening. In this example they're squabbling over whether a family that had their house blown up by an air strike should be granted asylum because they applied through the wrong channel.

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5 - Sperm whales hunt for over an hour at depths where the pressure is 100 times that we experience. They then surface and refuel with oxygen in less than 10 minutes.

A truly amazing creature and hat tip to @helenscales.bsky.social for the beautiful description in her book The Brilliant Abyss.

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3 - Sperm whales hunt at depths of about 1000m below the surface. Why? Because there is less oxygen there so their water breathing prey are slower!
4 - they achieve this by having huge amounts of myoglobin and haemoglobin in their dark thick blood to carry loads of oxygen!

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The news wasn't great this week, so do you want to hear 5 things about Sperm whales?

1 - they're called Sperm whales because of spermaceti. An oil in their nose they were hunted for.
2 - they eat giant squid whole! Unlike their baleen cousins who filter tiny plankton. But that's not all...

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