So… he was a con man about being a con man?!
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Meta con.
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This person’s name is Thandiwe Newton. Not Thandie!
In April 2021, Newton, having been widely known as Thandie Newton for 30 years because of a misspelling of her first name in the credits of her first film, announced she was finally correcting this and would henceforth be known and credited as Thandiwe Newton, her real name, beginning with Reminiscence (2021).
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This is really neat, even if this interpretation doesn’t end up panning out with further research. I also found the info about plants that respond to audio signals (like producing more nectar when hearing bees and producing more natural pesticides when hearing caterpillars) was super interesting, as well as plants sending electrical signals when they experience pain. I’ve long believed that all (or almost all) living things have a form of sentience.
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Plant communication 
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I know it’s also been established for quite some time that mycelial networks allow trees to spread pest damage signals rapidly from tree to tree.
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Dude…thank you for posting this 
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Today I read…in the dubiously sourced Martha Stewart Living magazine…that eggshells are the color of the hens earlobes. Do hens have earlobes? That is also new to me.
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I was gonna say “no” at first because they have ear holes with adorable tiny feathers over them, but apparently this part is called the ear lobe:
So part of the whole comb/wattle structure. I didn’t remember that at all lol, and I grew up with (and ADORE) chickens.
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Really only the case with chickens that have the genes for blue, green, or pink color eggs.
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This is referenced in the above article and I think it’s a great read too. Different topic but lots of overlap.
I thought this was especially poignant:
“Here we see a version of a familiar technique: A detail professing inclusiveness is squirreled away as secondary information. An article takes note of the less fortunate, allows a brief pause for the further disadvantaged, and moves on with its premise, undeterred by this dispensable material. The inclusion excludes. Mentions in passing read rather like the inversion of how the story should be told.”
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This is around the corner from us, but I thought it was cool regardless - not just that they were able to find viable seeds that survived so many years, but also that someone on site was interested and observant enough that the value of these plants was recognized.
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Extremely cool!
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That’s awesome! I kept thinking, “what if humans worked like this?” like if excavated skeletons regrew new people.
Anyway…
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