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Resource List for Learning Malayalam

Hello! Do you want to learn Malayalam but don't know where to start? Then I've got the perfect resource list for you and you can find its link below! Let me know if you have any suggestions to improve it. Here is what the resource list contains;

  1. "Handmade" resources on certain grammar concepts for easy understanding.
  2. Resources on learning the script.
  3. Websites to practice reading the script.
  4. Documents to enhance your vocabulary.
  5. Notes on Colloquial.
  6. Music playlists
  7. List of podcasts/audiobooks And a compiled + organized list of websites you can use to get hold of grammar!
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MALAYALAM RESOURCE LIST
MALAYALAM RESOURCE LIST Join South Asian Languages server for learning more about the Malayalam Language : https://discord.gg/H2Cj6gP6RW In
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Anonymous asked:

Is the fur on some bugs (like bees or caterpillars or moths) an example of convergent evolution with mammals or is the fur on those bugs not fur but something else?

crevicedwelling answered:

I suppose any fibrous body coating like bird feathers, mammalian fur, or arthropod setae used for protection/insulation/sensation etc could be considered convergence on a functional level, but insect “hair” is an entirely different material!

arthropod setae are made of chitin (a polysaccharide), while your hair is made of keratin (a protein). setae can have many different forms, such as stiff bristles, sensory hairs, or the scales on butterflies, moths, and other arthropods. here is a good resource if you’d like to read about the various types of setae and their functions:

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(PDF) Scales and Setae
PDF | This chapter discusses the role of setae and scales in insects. In all groups of arthropods and especially insects, the role of the se
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Anonymous asked:

Is the fur on some bugs (like bees or caterpillars or moths) an example of convergent evolution with mammals or is the fur on those bugs not fur but something else?

crevicedwelling answered:

I suppose any fibrous body coating like bird feathers, mammalian fur, or arthropod setae used for protection/insulation/sensation etc could be considered convergence on a functional level, but insect “hair” is an entirely different material!

arthropod setae are made of chitin (a polysaccharide), while your hair is made of keratin (a protein). setae can have many different forms, such as stiff bristles, sensory hairs, or the scales on butterflies, moths, and other arthropods. here is a good resource if you’d like to read about the various types of setae and their functions:

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(PDF) Scales and Setae
PDF | This chapter discusses the role of setae and scales in insects. In all groups of arthropods and especially insects, the role of the se
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OK, so I've been knitting since 2010, and I just learned 2 things.

[1] Magic loop was invented around 2002

[2] Circular needles were invented in the 1910s

That means that, if you were knitting as recently as just over 100 years ago, you either were knitting with straight needles or with double points

??????????????

I fucking hate straight needles, and I fucking despise double points [personally, I know not everyone does]

I like to imagine knitting as this craft that goes back hundreds of years and connects me to history and all that. And in some ways it is

But then I find out that I've been ALIVE longer than the magic loop method? If my grandmother had been able to teach me to knit [she died around the time I was born but was apparently a very experienced knitter], she wouldn't have even known what magic loop was???????

I also wonder if I would have even liked knitting at all If I was stuck with straight needles and double points

Idk my mind is blown over this and I guess I just need to remember that my knitting is a modern craft that is only in some ways related to historical knitting

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I did a paper on the significance of knitting in World War Two and found a book about the history of knitting in America. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time then to read the rest of the book, so I only read the chapter related to my topic. It was the best (and most interesting) resource I had for the paper and if you’re interested in other time periods, the book covers them too.

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No idle hands : the social history of American knitting : Macdonald, Anne L., 1920- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archiv
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Anonymous asked:

do you have any reading recs for someone who wants to learn about bugs?

bugthebard answered:

Oh absolutely! There are so many lovely popular science entomology books. I'll name a few, but there are tons more for specific bugs you might be interested in if you search around! I've got four in mind that I've read that I think provide some nice variety.

Buzz, Sting, Bite by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

I so enjoyed this book. It's not about any specific insect, but it's a delightful tour of a bunch of cool adaptations and the like in the arthropod world. I think it'd be a good choice if you're new to the whole thing as it's fun, light, and has lots of different groups represented. I learned about a wild interaction between ground-nesting bees and blister beetles from this one that I ended up making a little video on.

Never Home Alone by Rob Dunn

I love the household ecosystem! This book isn't just arthropods — it also covers bacteria and other organisms you might find in your home. But it's so neat! And tonally it's refreshing because it doesn't attempt to scare you about what's in your house. Rather, it invites you to engage with your fellow home inhabitants.

Honeybee Democracy by Thomas D. Seeley

This is such an interesting deep dive into honey bee behavior. I think a lot of people know bees are smart but don't quite realize how complex their social behavior gets. I also am charmed by any book that includes a chapter on incorporating another animal's behavior as a lesson to our own human society (the last chapter is basically "what can we learn from the voting system of honey bees?", an adorable thought).

The Sting of the Wild by Justin O. Schmidt

The Schmidt pain scale is a bit infamous. Dr. Schmidt made a whole collection of insects sting him, and rated them on a scale based on the pain he felt. With descriptions like "someone has fired a staple into your cheek," it's definitely not the most objective, but it is a good time. And following his journey getting stung by everything (including his grad students that followed in his footsteps in some very funny ways) is entertaining.

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Anonymous asked:

Enjoyed your Book Riot post “11 Amazing Books About the Wonder of Trees.” You mentioned “there is a lot of fantastic nature writing by authors of color.” Could you recommend some titles or authors? I’ve read a few, but want to read more. Thanks!

whilereadingandwalking answered:

Yes of course! Top is of course Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, which blew me away.

But there's a long list of other books I came across in my research that looked amazing and interesting, but didn't fit the more narrow subject of my list. I added these books to my own to-read list!

  • Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy
  • There’s Something In The Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities by Ingrid RG Waldron
  • The Unlikely Thru-Hiker By Derick Lugo
  • The Adventure Gap by James Edward Mills
  • As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
  • Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis by Vandana Shiva
  • Green Deen: What Islam Teaches About Protecting the Planet by Ibrahim Abdul-Matin
  • Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage by Dianne D. Glave
  • Sustainable South Bronx: A Model for Environmental Justice by Majora Carter
  • Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States by Carl A. Zimring
  • Black Faces, White Spaces by Carolyn Finney
  • The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World - note: the editor is not BIPOC, but the book is: "essays from authors representing diverse backgrounds, including Japanese American, Mestizo, African American, Hawaiian, Arab American, Chicano and Native American"
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World’s largest bee, thought to be extinct, found in Indonesia

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World’s largest bee, thought to be extinct, found in Indonesia
The giant bee was first discovered in 1859, but since has only officially sighted once. Now, researchers have found a specimen alive and wel
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In 1859, while exploring the remote island of Bacan in the North Moluccas, Indonesia, the renowned naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace made an astounding discovery: the Megachile pluto — the world’s largest bee.

Wallace described the bee, which is about four times the size of a honeybee, as a “large black wasp-like insect, with immense jaws like a stag-beetle.” But for more than a century, that was the only known sighting of the Megachile pluto, and some feared that deforestation had rendered the giant insect extinct.

“It was absolutely breathtaking to see this ‘flying bulldog’ of an insect that we weren’t sure existed any more,” Clay Bolt, the photographer who captured the first images of the species alive, told the BBC. “To actually see how beautiful and big the species is in life, to hear the sound of its giant wings thrumming as it flew past my head, was just incredible.”

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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when i say my gender changes to the tune of the bit i mean a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do and if he can’t then god forbid women do anything