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Today, I was browsing Wikipedia and found Linnaeus’ taxonomy of animals quite amusing.

The Latin name for the genus “Bison” is Bison.

One of its species, the American bison, in Latin is Bison bison.

And one of the subspecies of the American bison, the plains bison, in Latin is Bison bison bison.

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The Latin name for the genus “gorilla” is Gorilla.

One of its species, the western gorilla, in Latin is Gorilla gorilla.

And one of the subspecies of the Western gorilla, the western lowland gorilla, in Latin is Gorilla gorilla gorilla.

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I downloaded the complete directory and took another look. Here are some interesting ones:

Gallus gallus gallus – domestic chicken

Liparis liparis liparis – European smelt

Bubo bubo bubo – Eurasian eagle-owl

Alces alces alces – European moose

Perdix perdix perdix – grey partridge

Puffinus puffinus puffinus – Manx shearwater

Pica pica pica – common magpie

Regulus regulus regulus – goldcrest

There are dozens more like these.

You can check here:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/

“Mind taking me to the farm, bro?”

How interesting everything turns out, Telegram now replaces morning website reading. On the topic of AI, especially ChatGPT, I highly recommend Nikita Rvachev’s blog.

Generally, it’s interesting that Facebook groups are dying, while Telegram thrives. And there’s really nothing else significant out there.

Here is an interesting fence made of living trees. Perhaps until some point, there were trellises here.

Today in the forest, I saw a tree that, in at least three places, had its trunk/branches changing direction exactly by 90 degrees. Any botanists around? How can this be explained?

The Easter bunny, as it is known today, likely originated among German Lutherans in the 17th century as a character similar to Santa Claus. The Easter bunny brought treats and gifts to obedient children during the Easter season. This tradition was brought to the United States by German immigrants in the 18th century and has since become a popular element of Easter celebrations in many Western countries. Now these bunnies are everywhere.

In general, a rabbit is a pagan symbol. It’s a symbol of fertility and new life. As ChatGPT told me, due to their “reproductive abilities.” When Christianity spread across Europe, many pagan symbols and customs were adopted and adapted for the new religion. The symbolism of the hare/rabbit as new life and fertility fit well with the Christian message of resurrection and renewal during Easter, and thus it was chosen as such a symbol for this holiday.

Here is a rabbit from a store window in Clifton Forge, VA.

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my 17th attempt at oil painting

This time I did it using real objects I found in my garage (arranged and spotlighted them in the right way)

I am currently finishing a 1000-page work by mathematician Stephen Wolfram, “New Kind of Science”. I will write separately about this book, it is wildly interesting, and very different from anything I read before. I bought this tome — it is almost 10 cm thick, but the book is freely available online.

For today — just a fun fact — the author just really loves to mention the main idea of the book almost on every 20th page, almost with the same words. Well, okay, it’s relevant everywhere, but still. I quickly pulled out some excerpts.

The main idea is that the complexity of the world around us can be explained by simple rules, which are applied by a straightforward algorithm. Changes in the initial setup can reflect strongly in the final complexity — for example, in shapes or patterns.