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Crows discovered antibiotics millions of years before humans.
When a crow gets sick, it does something that looks insane — it finds an ant colony and deliberately pisses them off.
The ants attack. They spray formic acid everywhere in defense.
The crow? Doesn't run. It spreads its wings and just... takes it. Lets the ants crawl all over its body.
Here's the genius part: Formic acid is a natural antibacterial and antifungal compound. It kills the parasites and microbes that destroy feathers. The crow is basically giving itself a chemical bath.
Scientists call this "anting." Over 200 bird species do it. First documented in 1831, but birds have been doing it for millions of years.
It gets weirder.
When ants aren't available, some birds grab LIT CIGARETTE BUTTS and rub themselves with the smoke instead. They found a substitute for their medicine.
We spent centuries "discovering" antibiotics. Crows were running their own pharmacy this whole time.
Here's what strikes me: evolution is the original drug discovery engine. Billions of years. Trillions of experiments. No hypothesis — just relentless trial and error until something works.
Now we're building AI systems that do the same thing for antibody design — searching vast molecular spaces, predicting protein structures, optimizing binding affinity. What took nature millions of years, AI can explore in days.
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@TheExtremeMusi1 in the hands of Corey Feldman - perhaps .
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Is this the most annoying musical instrument???
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Great band!🎶🎸
Your favourite song???
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What’s an old-fashioned grandma name I could give my girl?
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Who's your favorite drummer that nobody talks about (because they are too busy worshiping Bonham)?
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What are some underrated bands, past or present, that seriously deserve more love?
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Do you actually like The White Stripes???
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@SVG__Collection Al Green - the one with his shirt off .
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What’s your favorite soul album?
You can’t say “What’s Going On” or “Songs in the Key of Life”
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This is preposterous.
First of all, she's not waving the officers through and has no right to do so even if she were. She is waving another car through, before the officers approach her car.
Second, the officers are not randomly searching her, they are approaching her vehicle because she is violating the law: namely, she is obstructing a lawful enforcement operation. You're not allowed to walk up to or drive up to people who are enforcing the law to make it harder for them to do their jobs.
Third, this defense attorney is drawing a meaningless distinction between an ICE officer and a "real police officer." Again, you're not allowed to interrupt a lawful enforcement operation, which is exactly what this woman was doing.
Fourth, the officer didn't discharge his weapon to prevent her from fleeing. When he discharged his weapon, she had pointed the vehicle at him and pressed the gas. He discharged his weapon in self defense, and other angles of the video show the woman *clearly* hit the officer with her car while accelerating.
The gaslighting is off the charts and I'm having none of it. This guy was doing his job. She tried to stop him from doing his job. When he approached her car, she tried to hit him.
A tragedy? Absolutely. But a tragedy that falls on this woman and all of the radicals who teach people that immigration is the one type of law that rioters are allowed to interfere with.
Jenin Younes@JeninYounesEsq
I'm a former defense attorney and currently a civil liberties attorney with no political dog in this fight. I watched the video at least 10 times from different angles and at different speeds and waited to offer an opinion, which I still reserve the right to change if additional information changes the calculus. It is very clear that the officers instigated the confrontation. The woman initially tried to wave them past her. ICE officers have no authority to search a US citizen or arrest her (unless there's probable cause to believe she's harboring undocumented individuals, not a contention here). A woman surrounded by masked, armed men who have no law enforcement authority over her has every right to try to escape. Video shows her steering wheel is turned to the right, clearly an attempt to leave WITHOUT hitting anyone and steer clear of the officer standing towards the front of her car. That officer had time to step to the side, which is where he was when he shot her. Even a real police officer would not have the right to shoot at her for trying to flee. This is well-established in the case law; deadly force may not be used simply to prevent someone from getting away. Given that the ICE officers had no law enforcement authority to begin with, AND the video footage shows she was trying to escape a perceived threat, not to kill anyone, the crime is all the more inexcusable. I'm praying for the victim's family, especially her children. I'm also praying for all the conservatives who are so unprincipled and lost they're excusing this terrible crime, and gloating over a death that will leave three young children motherless, because of the victim's politics.
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Who's the greatest Black actor of all time?
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“Tony can swing and play his ass off. He’s a motherf*cker. I don't think there's a drummer alive that can do what Tony Williams can do.”
— Miles Davis
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