"the only thing worse than growing up / is never quite learning how"

[larryhammer]

My life is better for knowing that there is a fish called a sarcastic fringehead. And that David Attenborough has already covered it. (via)

(In case like me you're wondering how can you tell a fish is being sarcastic, the name apparently comes from the original Greek meaning of literally "biting" rather than metaphoric extension already in use by Plato's time.

The speed of "spooky action-at-a-distance" of quantum entanglement has been measured to be at least four orders of magnitude faster than light, this time in a way that closes previous loopholes on such measurements. (via)

On the whitewashing of history, wild west edition. For example, Deadwood Dick was born a slave. (via)

---L.