I come across things all the time that pique my curiosity and compel me to either verify the wonder of it or just find out more. Here are three things I've come across in the past week or so:
1.
Giant tarantulas in Peru, India, Sri Lanka keep tiny frogs, called narrow-mouthed frogs (Microhylids), as pets. Insects try to eat the burrowing tarantulas' eggs but the frogs eat those insects. In return, the spiders protect the frogs from predators. So cool!
For more information: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/tiny-frogs-and-giant-spiders-best-of-friends/
2.
Eggs are pretty fascinating.
Before a hen lays an egg, it’s coated in what’s called a “bloom.”
The bloom is a thin coating that covers the egg and protects the insides from bacteria. It seals the egg so protects the humans that consume the egg from getting sick on any bacteria that may have gotten into a washed (or, bloomless) egg.
Eggs that come from the grocery store have had this bloom washed off so eggs have to be refrigerated and eaten much sooner than unwashed eggs.
For more information: https://www.thehappychickencoop.com/washing-eggs/3.
Sir Isaac Newton was very productive during the Great Plague of London quarantine in 1665.
In a little more than two years of "social distancing" he helped develop calculus, he researched light, color, and spectrum and, and he thought hard on the principles of inertia which led to his Universal Law of Gravity.
For more information: https://www.biography.com/news/isaac-newton-quarantine-plague-discoveries
What are you doing reading this blog? Get working! Get thinking! Come up with the next invention! Figure out how the Big Bang happened!
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