Blueberries aren't blue by western standards, they're purple (white grapes are green, red grapes are purple, etc). The line between colors (e.g. purple purple-blue and blue) is an arbitrary classification, though, and different cultures (and subcutlures, and individuals) draw it different places.

Blue occurs in nature (the sky is blue thanks to raleigh scattering) and even in organics and minerals (that's often where humans get blue pigments from). They're not as common as colors like green, brown, grey, or even red.

Can I please ask you a new question? Why do chickens lay eggs? Is there an advantage to laying eggs? (I'm not talking about baby chicks. I'm talking about regular eggs that people eat...)

Purple.

The eggs we eat are a chickens period (after some reading, since they don't menstruate it's not actually a "period", but i still think it's a decent oversimplified analogy), but instead of flushing it down to the toilet, we put it in a frying pan.

What about blue mushrooms and potatoes?

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MusicBanter: "Blueberries" = Purple berries https://i.imgur.com/ItrtDaZ.png

I think that given the current state of science education in the states, I'm not sure that this kind of thing is the best idea, but hey still fun.

The finalists are in - vote for the People’s Choice for Breakthrough of the Year!

4 Finalists:

A drug for many cancers

Gene Therapy Success

Pint-sized neutrino detector

Fixing tiny mutations

If you're interested, you can find the runners up here.

I would have voted for Artificial Intelligence Masters Poker because I've been working on a computer program that "plays" cribbage.

Oddly not listed:

Concrete evidence of Creation

Voyager 1 was launched 40 years ago. Just last month its thrusters were remotely fired for the first time in 34 years.

Voyager 1 is currently 11.8 billion miles away from the earth.

I didn't hear about the thrusters. Were they expending accumulated solar energy so it could recharge?

What Voyager 1 uses for fuel.

The Future According To Elon Musk

https://preview.ibb.co/bKMVp6/5_AA41...AF92_BDB39.jpg

info graph^

2040 - AI will surpass humans.

Projecting 22 years out is foolish in my opinion. Shit is going to get weird (if we make it that far). IE: Transhumanism / Singularity.

Agreed. In 1989 Zemekis did Back to the Future II which showed life in 2015. They pretty much got nothing right.

You'd think that with all of the hype about how historically accurate the BTTF films are, they'd put a little work into it.

*yawn*

Heck, 2001 nailed Ipads.

https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/files/2011/0...AM-520x234.png

2001 was just a feel-good summer movie though.

Self "healing" concrete via fungus:

https://www.binghamton.edu/news/stor...to-fix-bridges

Your avatar needs apes........

It's a cool idea, but this is very far from actually being a thing.

I like the idea of using fungi for things other than food or medicine. I remember seeing some company producing these bio degradable elements for when you ship furniture, etc. Basically replacing styro-foam with these elements grown from fungus into various shapes.

No idea if anyone is actually using it now, but it's a genius idea.

Frogs are falling from the sky! The end is near!

PBS Eons - another fantastic PBS channel.
Everyone even somewhat interested in paleontology should check it out.
And to the people not interested in paleontology: Go **** yourselves.

Ja dinosaurs are cool, but have you heard of legos?

Cute chick with gauges and long ass hair talking about nerd things.. I'm in.

Those things are bad ass, check this out:
https://imgur.com/gallery/DtdBr

*prepares to click with disgust at the ready*

*clicks*

Awesome.

https://media1.tenor.com/images/d6e0...itemid=4372523

edit: oops, wrong thread

I got them converted to amazing GIFs..

https://im3.ezgif.com/tmp/ezgif-3-3354b310da.gif

https://im3.ezgif.com/tmp/ezgif-3-96897f6c88.gif

https://im3.ezgif.com/tmp/ezgif-3-7c3d9d15f1.gif

*yoink*

I assume every Numberphile viewer already knows and loves Parker.
This is an extremely entertaining mix of comedy and math(s). Parts of it are kinda basic, but even those bits are fun. Parker is great and funny as always. Recommended to everyone.

Haven't seen that one, but it's the best explanation of 4D i've ever seen. Also, the mobius loop bit was cool.

I've known all the möbius loop stuff from Numberphile and Vsauce, but the parts about shadows and cross-sections of 4D objects in our 3D world was awesome and pretty mindblowing.
I'd love some kind of sci-fi horror about a creepy 4D world sipping into ours based on the stuff he shows.

I like how simple his explanation of a closed system is.

I find the topic he hits on near the end where it’s predicted that all information will be separated by an impossible to reach distance due to the limitation of light speed disturbing.

I know this isn’t how it works but somewhere I read or heard about (can’t remember) a proposed intelligent life form in the future that will never be able to know if there’s anything out there (including light) because everything that exists is moving away in the universe that’s expanding faster than the speed of light.