The idea of the Wood Wide Web - that trees communicate with each other via a network of symbiotic fungi in their roots - has become increasingly popular over the last few years. But turns out it might be entirely false.

A fascinating read by some of the very people who helped spread that idea in the first place. Now this is science.

https://undark.org/2023/05/25/where-the-wood-wide-web-narrative-went-wrong/

#science #SciEd #PopScience #WoodWideWeb #fungi #popsci

🕷️🕷️ In #animal #world #spiders are the most diverse group of #predators around the #Earth 🌍 With 50,500 species described to date, it has been estimated that they consume between 400-800 million tons of prey (mainly insects) per year. (Nyffeler et al. 2017)

📝 This figure is equivalent to 229 times the weight of the entire #population of #Spain. 👥👥👥

📝 This figure is equivalent to 15 times the weight of the entire population of #Europe. 🇪🇺👨‍👧‍👦👨‍👧‍👦👨‍👧‍👦

EVERY YEAR!

#science #popscience #bugs #nature

Dear linguophiles, I want to improve my rusty #French. What online resources do you recommend for reading and oral comprehension?

I'm looking for resources made for and by native speakers: YouTube channels, blogs, social media profiles, that kind of thing.

Besides #linguistics and #tech, I'm interested in #art, #animals, #DnD, #film and #PopScience, to name a few interests. Mentioning this because hobbies are the greatest motivador in language learning.