i’m certain someone has brought this up before, but what if on the two-sun homeworld elves do need to sleep. meditation lets them go more nights without sleeping than other races can, but they physically can’t put off sleeping indefinitely.
so when taako gets his memory around and is hopping around trying to start sizzle it up!, he gets weird looks when he says he needs to go to bed. “gonna hit the hay,” he says, and everyone looks confused, even the other elves. so maybe he’s just been doing it wrong, the ——– years he’s been alive. it’s not like he’s spent much time around other elves. it’s not like he doesn’t sleep at all in ten years, but… it’s a luxury, not a necessity. he sleeps when he can afford it.
later, at the bureau, at the end of a training session, lucretia nods at them and says, “good work today, gentlemen. go get some sleep. especially you, taako, you look dead on your feet.”
taako rolls his eyes. “didn’t you know elves don’t need sleep?” he says, trying to sound appropriately lofty. he’s not really sure why the director looks so alarmed. he doesn’t really care.
Researchers have argued that pointy eggs are common to cliff-nesting
birds because they roll in a circle and are less likely to tumble off an
edge. Or that asymmetric eggs pack together more easily and would allow
females with large clutches to incubate their broods efficiently. Or
that spherical eggs are stronger and less prone to breaking, or use the
least amount of shell for a given volume, which would be useful for
birds that can’t get enough calcium in their diet.
“There are a
lot of hypotheses, but no conclusive explanation or theory,” says
Stoddard, who’s an evolutionary biologist based at Princeton University.
“It was a good puzzle.”
To solve it, Stoddard teamed up with L. Mahadevan,
a biophysicist at Harvard University who has studied “how leaves
ripple, how tendrils coil, and how the brain folds, among other things.”
He realized that all eggs could be described according to two simple
characteristics—how asymmetric they are, and how elliptical they are.
Measure these traits, and you can plot every bird egg on a simple graph.
They did that for the eggs of 1,400 bird species, whose measurements
Stoddard extracted from almost 50,000 photos. It was the resulting graph
that revealed the left-field nature of chicken eggs.
“to capture the narrative aspect of the original stories, the best way Sherlock Holmes can be adapted to film is fake-documentary-style with Watson holding the shaky camera”
good yes
but consider the episodic nature of how the original stories were first published, in one of the most universal means of entertainment of that day, often utilizing mild cliffhangers and building mystery over time with lurid themes
so what i mean to say, is,
dr watson would be a youtuber 100%
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