The Cliff's Edge @CliffsEdge3

Aspiring #science and #environmentalism blogger / podcaster / viddya-maker cliffsedgemedia.com United States Joined September 2020

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The Cliff's Edge @CliffsEdge3

5 years ago

🤮🤮🤬 ow.ly/N3cw50DLSqF

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The Cliff's Edge @CliffsEdge3

5 years ago

“...but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity.” --Nikola Tesla

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I love that male side-blotched lizards are playing rock-paper-scissors against each other for mates, but the whole time the females are cheating and trying to get with the males that are losing. The losers are getting pity sex. 😁

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The Cliff's Edge @CliffsEdge3

5 years ago

“I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.” ― E.O. Wilson

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The Cliff's Edge @CliffsEdge3

5 years ago

Since apparently it needs to be said, the snow in Texas was just snow. Water and dust. Not a hoax by Bill Gates and China to trick us in to injecting tracking devices via the climate change vaccine. On a side note, I'm a big advocate for improving science education in general.

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5 years ago

Apparently Google wasn't much help when they had to teach themselves how to find a hippo's retractable testes. Find out the whole story on the latest episode of The Cliff's Edge Podcast.

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5 years ago

There is no vacation from the climate crisis.

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The Cliff's Edge @CliffsEdge3

5 years ago

There are fucking invasive hippos spreading throughout Colombia because coke kingpin Pablo Escobar smuggled 4 into the country in the '80s. They threaten to muscle out the native manatees and other endangered species. And they turn out to be incredibly hard to castrate. 😮

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The Cliff's Edge @CliffsEdge3

5 years ago

Born in 1867, Charles Henry Turner got his PhD when most Black men had trouble going to school at all. He found that no university would hire him, despite his pioneering 70+ research papers on insect behavior and other topics. He did research on his own time and his own dime.

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The Cliff's Edge @CliffsEdge3

5 years ago

Walmart can save the planet! Yeah, that was a lie designed to get your attention. But, I've been saying for a while that we should have solar panels in parking lots, so it's nice to see that someone ran the numbers and agrees. ow.ly/deU950DB1vh

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The Cliff's Edge @CliffsEdge3

5 years ago

In 1915, at the age of 23, a young Black woman named Alice Ball developed a new, effective treatment for leprosy that helped end the practice of leper colonies and prevented untold suffering. Of course, a white dude claimed credit for her work. Remember Alice Ball.

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The Cliff's Edge @CliffsEdge3

5 years ago

The Taiwanese giant wood roach, Salganea taiwanensis, mates for life. When two lovebirds pair up and find the rotted log they want to raise their family in, they seal the deal by devouring each other's wings. Rings and flowers are for wimps.

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The Cliff's Edge @CliffsEdge3

5 years ago

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge...” ― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man For far too many reasons to include here, this quote seems extremely relevant in our society today.

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The Cliff's Edge @CliffsEdge3

5 years ago

If you need a refresher on the differences between exotic species, invasive species, natives, and endemics, I gotcha covered. Keystone species thrown in for bonus beer jokes. ow.ly/sNEe50Dyb0C

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The Cliff's Edge @CliffsEdge3

5 years ago

I really have to stop fact-checking myself in real time. From the latest episode of The Cliff's Edge: ow.ly/h6Pp50DsodX or find the link in my bio or find it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc etc etc

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The Cliff's Edge @CliffsEdge3

5 years ago

Lately I've constantly been torn between being depressed over news about how bad the ice and sea level situation is, and being almost kind of cautiously optimistic because the new administration is at least signalling it gives a damn about the climate crisis.

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The Cliff's Edge @CliffsEdge3

5 years ago

I kind of love it when scientists test the assumptions we make. Of course the bug that takes the most damage in a fight is the loser... but if you don't actually test that, you can't really be sure. No word if any test subjects developed a leather fetish. ow.ly/MF4f50DsaDY

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The Cliff's Edge @CliffsEdge3

5 years ago

Snippet from this week's podcast episode, where I compare ocean acidification to Harley Quinn. Kind of. If you think the ocean probably needs to have coral reefs and plankton and shellfish, then you should learn about ocean acidification. ow.ly/pYHw50DlEYw

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The Cliff's Edge @CliffsEdge3

5 years ago

If you've never heard of ocean acidification, you're not alone. It's scary, but you rarely hear it talked about in the media. Good news is: cutting carbon emissions will stop it! Bad news: We have to convince people to cut carbon emissions to stop it! ow.ly/ONb650DlEe7