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  • Great summary, thanks!

    Despite the great images of IO the linked article comes with this mud pearl "[University of Arizona's Large Binocular Telescope] With two primary mirrors measuring 8.4 m (~27.5 ft), it has a collecting area slightly greater than that of a 30-meter (98.4 ft) telescope."

  • Can you help me id this larvae

    Found it on my tomato plant. I'd seen them before in sizes up to 4-5 cm. They eat the tomato leaves like crazy. And (naturally) poo a lot. Some black granade like aggregates. Once grown they molt into a moth that I saw a few days ago. And now my tomato plants are again riddled with these buggers.

    This photo was done with the help of a stereoscope. The grid squares are 4mm inside, and 5mm outside the lines. So this juvenile has about 1cm.

    I'd love to ID them. Any advise on how to control them without pesticides is also welcome.

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    Can you help identify this?

    Found it on my son's hair after a 10min visit to our veggies garden. My guess is that it might be a tick but we are not in an area of lime disease and although it's an open, rather unkept, field the only mammals I see around are 2-3 stray(?) cats.

    The photo was done using a stereoscope+smartphone. The dark lines underneath are .4 to .5 mm.

    Any pointers would be welcome.

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    Analysis: Most research on PFAS harms is unpublicized
  • Thanks for your answers and perspective, trully. Even if none of us have changed their opinion.

    I see adjectivation and categorization as parts of reasoning. I think you used a red herring in order to have a strong opinion about it. With the same cheakyness, I'll quote yourself

    I can't say whether this is an important issue, because I don't have any experience in this area.

    I take issue

  • Analysis: Most research on PFAS harms is unpublicized
  • You feel free to use expressions and terms as "rub me the wrong way", "buzzwords", and "clickbait". In those cases you are okay with the listener/reader interpreting the implicit meaning over their explicit wording. Why is "forever chemicals" different? Specially in an informal communication setting.

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