Good morning. ☕

🫀 A walnut-sized clam grows its own fiber-optic cables - and it has been doing it for millions of years.

The heart cockle (Corculum cardissa) has a shell packed with microscopic transparent windows made of aragonite crystals arranged like fiber-optic tubes. They pipe sunlight directly into the clam's tissue, where symbiotic algae photosynthesize and produce food for the animal.

Even wilder: the crystal structure acts as a selective filter, letting beneficial wavelengths through while blocking most damaging UV radiation. It's a built-in sunscreen and light pipe in one, achieved entirely through mineral geometry.

A 2024 Nature Communications study showed the shell transmits more than twice as much useful light as harmful UV. Nature converged on fiber optics long before we did.

#science #nature #biology #evolution

Thank goodness most IPAs aren't like this anymore.

It's good to be media literate, but I think Gen Z tends to over-analyze and over-criticize everything to the point where they can't enjoy anything.

I'm about to catch a one way flight to Mexico to buy a BYD EV and drive that shit back here.

Our youngest (13) had two friends over last night for a sleepover. They've been really good and surprisingly quiet. I'm making them pancakes this morning and taking them to the mall later.

Independent bookstores are multiplying, although many people still think they're dying out

https://www.inquirer.com/business/bookstores-independent-growing-amazon-barns-noble-romance-fantasy-romantasy-boom-20260529.html?id=XmaVjwvnWIggQ

On Venus, a day is longer than a year.

And you thought Mondays were bad on Earth.

Bluejays are an infrequent visitor around here, so seeing this guy was a surprise! #birds

We saw "The Mandalorian and Grogu" tonight, and I really enjoyed it! Fun Star Wars is back!