This despite society’s frequent demand to “Know your ABCs”.

Zinc?! I never could live without zinc …

Ah well, good to hear that at least, and never mind then.

“Did you try erasing everything from the beginning and letting it reemerge again?”

You mean this one, right? But it looks so cute <3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelphicos_quadrivirgatum

I don’t remember the details, but wasn’t there a massive genetic bottleneck event in early (modern?) human prehistory?

Could be fun if it didn’t happen and we were more genetically diverse!

Most sensible answer yet (maybe not the most exciting one though ;) )

Sorry you got sick!

I for one never doubted you for a second.

I bet OP invented this mysterious friend just to get some good recommendations!

Starch is the nourishing part in a lot of our staple foods (potatos, cereals etc.) and easily digestible. Cellulose is a major component of wood (and cotton and paper) and of what we call “fiber” in our food, the stuff we cannot digest.

Both starch and cellulose are long, sometimes interlinked chains of glucose molecules. The only difference is at which corner of each glucose molecule the next is attached.

Another one about cheese: The cheese blocks you can get at the super market are reasonably small-portioned food items. The moon is a celestial body revolving around the Earth at a distance of around 250,000 miles, yet both are made from the same material. Makes you think.

@[email protected] solved it, “tufted titmouse” is the name :)

Looks like it, thank you!

Those birds are so beautiful (and, seen from Europe, exotic). (No shade to the raccoon.)

What’s the name of the lowest one, the small one with the crest?

Yeah, everybody please respect the honor system and use decimal for numbers up to ten, binary for numbers up to one.

If you absolutely have to count to e.g. 20 in decimal, just count to ten twice.

Yeah, I liked how well spoken and well reasoned it was; they politely said something they could have said in a much more acerbic way.

(Not saying I agree with them either.)

Whoah! There is a star constellation Berenice’s Hair*, and suddenly it’s connected to a name I know!

*just a line with an angle

Probably no use for you, but interesting nonetheless: In Bavaria, Germany, Veronika is shortened to “Vroni”, with the v pronounced as an f and with the o spoken long (so, not short like in Ronnie).

Technically correct, the best kind of correct.

“Do it!”