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This document discusses several topics including: 1) Leonardo da Vinci's early painting depicting Gabriel telling Mary about Jesus' birth. 2) An advertising campaign in India that is blamed for destroying sales of a cheap car. 3) Black olives that are actually green olives cured in lye and treated with iron to turn black. 4) Black coral that mysteriously grows towards light even without a visible light source and exists near hydrothermal vents. 5) Parasitic wasps that carry viruses to protect their eggs from host immune defenses, demonstrating viral domestication similar to symbiotic bacteria. 6) Tardigrades' ability to live without water, withstand wide temperature ranges,
Stories behind p
- 2. Leonardo da Vinci? This is one of his earliest works and depicts Gabriel telling Mary that she will have a son called Jesus Not surprising but beautiful
- 3. What's Wrong with That?
- 4. What is wrong with that? This image and the ad campaign that went along with it are attributed to destroying the Nano from Tata Motors in India No one in India wanted to invest in a cheap car
- 5. What Could be More Natural?
- 6. A Little Black Shoe Polish with Mine Please? Black olives, though labeled as “ripe” on supermarket cans, actually aren’t: these, a California invention, are green olives that have been cured in an alkaline solution, lye, normally used for cleaning toilets, and then treated with oxygen and an iron compound (ferrous gluconate) that turns their skins a shiny patent-leather black.
- 7. What is odd about this Coral
- 8. Or this one
- 9. They are Black Coral They exist everywhere in the ocean and seem to prefer to be under 50 m (164 ft) deep Black Coral mysteriously grow toward the light even when none seems present They make up part of the biota near hydrothermal vents
- 10. Domestication?
- 11. Parasitic Wasps Use Viruses to Control Their Prey. Parasitic wasps, which lay their eggs inside living caterpillars and other insect larvae, carry viruses that help protect their eggs from the immune defenses of the host. See Polydnavirus The domestication of viruses like that of symbiotic bacteria may be a widespread phenomenon.
- 12. What is special about tardigrades
- 13. Near Indestructible They can live without water, withstand temperatures from -328 to 304 degrees Fahrenheit, and even survive in outer space see tardigrades