Notices by allan (allan@mastodon.club), page 53

Plot twist: Mitochondrial DNA can come from both parents
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/plot-twist-mitochondrial-dna-can-come-from-both-parents/

(submitted by rbanffy)

if the OG star wars trilogy were to come out today like darth vader would 100% be a sex symbol on tumblr and drawn to be sexy anime twink under the mask. everyone would ship him with luke and then empire would come out and everyone would quietly delete all their vader/luke posts and instead draw him as an anime dad

Every percentage change reported in the article:

Monarch Butterflies (90% decline) - United States
Rusty-Patched Bumblebee (87% decline) - United States
Flying Insect Biomass (75% decline overall 82% at summer peak) - Germany
Partridges (80% decline) - France
Nightingales (50% decline) - France
Turtledoves (80% decline) - France
Largest King Penguin Colony (88% decline) - Crozet Islands
Bluefin Tuna (97% decline) - Global
Estimated Global Wild Animal Population (60% decline)
Arthropod Biomass (98% decline) - Puerto Rico
Beetles (72% decline) - Netherlands
Moths (54% decline) - Netherlands

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/magazine/insect-apocalypse.html

Growing up, us kids were told that seat belts in school buses were unnecessary, that the buses were designed so you were safer without one. A CBC investigation casts light on the deeply flawed original study and how the government has swept it under the carpet: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/school-bus-seatbelts-1.4826500