Actual explanation: these squid are transparent normally, but can turn on a dark pigmentation when that is a more effective camouflage. Being transparent works quite well most of the time, but if the predator has its own light source (as several deep-sea predators do) then their transparent state becomes a problem, because it's relatively reflective compared to the water around them. In this situation, turning on the dark pigment helps them blend in with the dark water better.

Source: Zylinski and Johnsen "Mesopelagic Cephalopods Switch between Transparency and Pigmentation to Optimize Camouflage in the Deep"

To be honest even if it was a power plant... they're already in the business of generating power. If generating more clean power in the same space is an option, that sounds great

I've been playing Paradox games, so I'm probably going straight to the Hague and deserving it

Artist Prof. Sam Van Aken took this to the logical extreme with the Trees of 40 Fruit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_40_Fruit

They're thinking of Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese journalist who uncovered the involvement of several Maltese politicians and who was then murdered with a car bomb a year later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Caruana_Galizia

Swift's flights were responsible for a thousand times more C02e than an average EU citizen. One has a comma, the other has a dot

There was a super interesting situation when the first Malaysian cosmonaut went to the ISS. He wasn't the first Muslim in space, but he was apparently the first to ask for guidance about things like how to correctly conduct his daily prayers and how to observe Ramadan's fasting. The council he spoke to made a booklet called A Guideline of Performing Ibadah at the International Space Station (ISS), which includes the delightful checklist for how to orient yourself for daily prayers: towards the kaaba if you can, if not then the kaaba's projection, if not that then just the Earth in general, and if even that isn't practical then wherever.

Are not typically held directly against your head

Engine and sensor specs for the F-117

I feel like I am owed compensation as a victim of this infohazard

Shout out to that time in 1998 when the world-leading astrophysicists at CSIRO solved the 17-year-old mystery of the signals they were picking up and couldn't explain. Turns out they were caused by the office microwave whenever it was opened before it was finished.

The Dutch, not content with merely driving the sea back, now seek to taunt and humiliate it