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Ori on a walk around the Zoo! Ori is a Verreaux's eagle-owl or milky eagle-owl. The Verreaux's Eagle-owl is the only owl in the world with pink eyelids, which appear as soon as one week after the owl hatches. They are the largest owl in Africa!
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Jonathan the tortoise named world's oldest living land animal at 194
The Seychelles giant tortoise is believed to have been born around 1832 and has lived on Saint Helena for more than a century, making him the oldest known living land animal
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Mike Rowe: “We’ve been telling kids for 15 years to learn to code. Well, AI is coming for the coders. It’s not coming for the welders, the plumbers, the steamfitters, the pipe-fitters, the HVAC, or the electricians.”
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Schools don't have a funding problem, they have an administrator surplus problem
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Tippi the crow showing off her intelligence while sorting colors! Crows are tool users, but they are also toolmakers and problem solvers!
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Bald eagles have the best eyesight in the animal kingdom and can spot prey up to 2 miles away. Although they weigh only around 10 lbs, their eyes are roughly the same size as human eyes. The Bald Eagle habitat is sponsored by LasikPlus.
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Back in the day, there was no texting or sliding into DMs... you had to call the HOUSE PHONE and hope her dad didn't pick up first 😅
The sweat, the rehearsed lines, the instant dad interrogation—Derrick Stroup captures this classic dating nightmare perfectly.
Who's still scared by 'Hello? This is her father—who's calling?' 😂
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At Edinburgh Zoo, Gentoo penguins are beginning their breeding season.
Children supported by Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity painted pebbles for the penguins to present to their mates,
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Today is Ocelot Conservation Day! Both the Ocelot Species Survival Plan & SAFE Ocelot are based at the Cincinnati Zoo! Learn more how these programs are making a difference for this incredible species! aza.org/
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Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.
How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.
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The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes and still today the only individual with two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific categories: Marie Skłodowska Curie.
Skłodowska Curie developed the term radioactivity, discovered the chemical elements polonium and radium and contributed to develop new cancer treatments. For her scientific dedication and remarkable breakthroughs, she was awarded the 1903 physics prize and the 1911 chemistry prize.
Learn more: bit.ly/4qGyRS1
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ALT Marie Curie in a laboratory, examining a scientific glass apparatus.
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Courtship dance of a peacock spider
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Red foxes are very resourceful in coping with cold weather conditions. They stay warm by curling up into little balls and wrapping themselves in their big, bushy tails.
Photo by Jim Peaco / NPS
ALT Red fox curled up and sleeping peacefully in a deep snowdrift with only its head and ears visible.
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An impact crater, roughly 1.5 km wide, on the surface of Mars, captured by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter 257 km above the planets surface.
📸: NASA/JPL/Uarizona
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