Thanks to a company called Last Memory‚ grieving families have a unique new way to honor the lives of their loved ones on their graves. While a headstone allows us to engrave a few words about the departed‚ that’s not enough to express just how much someone meant to us. So‚ Last Memory came up with a solution: the Digital Memory Medallion! Now‚ the internet has one question: why aren’t we all using it? The concept behind the Digital Memory Medallion is simple. It’s a small‚ weather-resistant plaque with a QR code that you can easily attach to a gravestone. Friends and family members can upload their favorite digital moments to their online account‚ along with a biography‚ obituary‚ and more. Then‚ whenever someone scans the QR code with their device‚ Last Memory will show them meaningful photos and videos of the deceased person’s life. @lastmemory_official Your loved ones deserves this #lastmemory #family #love ♬ Calm (Lofi) – Faneo sound “This is the most thoughtful invention of the century‚” wrote one commenter on TikTok. Another said‚ “This is incredible! I would spend hours walking through and seeing people’s special moments.” Screengrab from TikTok It’s devastating to lose a loved one‚ but anything we can do to keep their memory alive helps. We hope that Last Memory offers solace to grieving friends and family members! You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Unique Gravestone Accessory Allows Families To Share Cherished Memories Of Loved Ones. appeared first on InspireMore.

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Human doctors stepped in to perform a rare emergency c-section on a gorilla mom after she went into labor five weeks early. The story is an incredible‚ breathtaking reminder of the similarities between these magnificent animals and ourselves. At the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas‚ a mother gorilla named Sekani showed signs of a pregnancy […] The post Doctors Called in for Rare Emergency C-Section on Gorilla in the Zoo–and the Baby Pics Are Incredible appeared first on Good News Network.

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A dog in Indiana that was abandoned with a zip-tied snout is finally going to his forever home‚ and it's to a VERY familiar face — aka the police officer who rescued him.

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The Amazon rainforest hosts the largest and heaviest (although not longest) snake species on Earth: the green anaconda. However‚ what was thought to be a single species covering a vast area has now been revealed as two‚ with a little help from Will Smith and an accompanying documentary crew.Professor Bryan Fry of the University of Queensland did not set out to untangle the anaconda family tree. Instead‚ he is undertaking a long-term study of the effects of oil drilling in the Amazon in collaboration with the Indigenous Waorani people.“When you look at the male and female anacondas you wouldn’t think they were the same animal‚ let alone the same species‚” Fry told IFLScience. The legendary beasts that grow beyond 5 meters (16.4 feet) long (with unreliable rumors of much larger) are all females. The males are half the length and slimmer (no wonder some females can't be bothered). Not surprisingly‚ the two sexes have very different diets‚ with the females feeding on grazers like deer and capybara‚ while the males eat waders.It's not obvious from this mating ball‚ but the female green anacondas are far bigger than their suitorsImage Credit: Jesus Rivas“As top predators‚ anacondas are especially vulnerable to habitat degradation‚” Fry and colleagues write in a new paper. “Not only do they suffer from the damage to the habitat‚ they are also heavily impacted by the damage to their prey base.” The team reasoned that by comparing concentrations of heavy metals between the sexes‚ they could detect the consequences of oil spills in the ecosystem.They also had some celebrity help in the process. Fry was scientific team leader for the Amazonian part of the National Geographic documentary Pole to Pole with Will Smith. This brought resources to the anaconda research that Fry told IFLScience was far above what he was used to – including assistance from Smith himself‚ who had no issues with wading into the water and helping capture anacondas.The team learned that the males have 1‚000 percent more lead and cadmium in their bodies than the females‚ Fry told IFLScience‚ reflecting the way these elements are infiltrating the aquatic ecosystem and making their way up the food chain.In the process of the most extensive anaconda sampling ever conducted‚ they noticed the green anacondas of Ecuador are larger than those in Brazil. “We found one that was 6.3 meters (21 feet)‚ which is close to the official record‚” Fry told IFLScience. However‚ locals working with the team claimed to have seen one that‚ based on the size of its jaws‚ would have been 7.5 meters long. Despite greatly exaggerated rumors‚ across most of their range‚ even the largest females are a meter shorter.The Ecuadorian snakes don’t otherwise look or behave differently‚ having almost identical markings. However‚ when the team took genetic samples‚ they found these were definitely not the same species – there is a 5.5 percent difference in DNA between the two. “To put it in perspective‚ humans differ from chimpanzees by only about 2 percent‚” Fry noted in a statement. Further investigation revealed the larger species is also found in Colombia and Venezuela‚ earning the name northern green anaconda (Eunectes akayima) while the existing species E. murinus is to be renamed the southern green anaconda. Although there is some overlap in their territories‚ the two live in different river basins‚ following a geographical division that began 10 million years ago that is reflected in species divisions among many other Amazonian animals.This is a relatively puny male northern green anaconda. Think how hard it would be to capture the females.Image Credit: Jesus RivasWhat science gives‚ it sometimes also takes away. In the paper announcing their findings Fry and co-authors also report that what were considered to be three distinct species of (smaller) yellow anacondas are local variations of the same species. Fry admitted to IFLScience that it was sad to be removing two species from the records‚ but added. “We have to be dispassionate and let the genetics tell the story […] we have to be consistent to maintain the credibility of the science.”That credibility is important because‚ while the southern green anaconda is so widespread it is in no danger‚ the same may not be true for the northern version. Not only is their range smaller‚ but most of it is affected by oil drilling‚ along with widespread logging and the devastating drought the region is suffering. Fry is hoping to get back to the area to investigate if oil pollution is affecting male fertility‚ on top of everything else.  Such a discovery would be terrible news for the health of the ecosystem‚ but might at least focus attention on the threat oil drilling poses to the Amazon. If so‚ it might partially repay the Waorani‚ who welcomed the expeditions into their land and shared their knowledge on anaconda capturing‚ with two Waorani collaborators becoming authors on the new paper. The Waorani are acutely aware of oil drilling’s devastating consequences to their lands; last year their long campaign succeeded in getting a national referendum passed banning drilling in parts of it‚ but implementation remains a challenge.Contrary to reputation‚ neither anaconda is known to eat people – but Fry said they will sometimes kill those they perceive as a threat‚ so catching specimens is not a job to do alone.The discovery represents one of the largest new species identified this century‚ although overshadowed by proof of a second African elephant species. “Usually if you want to discover a new species you go small‚” Fry told IFLScience.The combination of the size of the find‚ celebrity link‚ and environmental significance makes it; “The biggest achievement of my career‚” Fry said. That’s quite a statement‚ given Fry has found fish with opiates for venom‚ shown dragon venom could prevent strokes that could transform the fight against many diseases‚ and even shown humanity’s slow reaction time is a side-effect of evolving resistance to cobra venom.  “The only way it could be bigger‚” he added to IFLScience‚ “is if I [scientifically] described a xenomorph that had just jumped out of Taylor Swift’s chest.”The study is published open access in the journal MDPI Diversity

If you've ever made the mistake of gaming online‚ and then made the further mistake of enabling chat and/or messages from strangers‚ you may have noticed gaming has a misogyny problem.Surveys have found that around 50 percent of women overall have experienced harassment of some kind‚ with 75 percent of women aged between 18 and 24 reporting that they had been harassed and abused in online games.While there are many questions to be asked about the societies that produce such misogyny‚ here's one vaguely amusing finding from a study that investigated abuse directed at female gamers: low-skilled players are more hostile towards female teammates than players who are good at the game.The study took place in 2015 around the time of the misogynistic campaign Gamergate. Researchers investigated the hypothesis that women entering a space that male gamers considered to be a male hierarchy prompted the most hostility from those who stood to lose the most from new competition in the arena: poor-performing males‚ or males who need to git gud. To do this‚ they chose the game Halo 3. As well as collecting key stats (on kill count‚ death count‚ and overall score)‚ the game hides any signifiers that you are somebody of the opposite sex behind Master Chief's hefty armor. The only clue as to the gender of the player is their voice‚ and perhaps gamer tag. In the study‚ the team analyzed recordings of gameplay and resulting kill and death stats‚ as well as the overall stats of the players involved. In one series of recordings‚ the researcher was female and spoke; in another‚ the researcher was male and spoke; and in another they were silent.When the researchers "spoke" they were actually just playing pre-recorded phrases‚ which were read in either male or female voices depending on the group. "These prerecorded phrases were identical in the male and female condition‚ harmless in nature‚ and designed to be inoffensive‚" the researchers explained in their paper. "Phrases included: ‘I like this map’‚ ‘nice shot there’‚ ‘I had fun playing that game’‚ ‘I think I just saw a couple of them heading this way’‚ and ‘that was a good game everyone’."The team codified the responses to these phrases into positive‚ negative‚ and neutral‚ and tied the comments to the gamers' skills. Unsurprisingly‚ they found that players who killed few and died plenty tended to be the most negative‚ and that there was a misogynist element to it."We found that skill determined the frequency of positive and negative statements spoken towards both male- and female-voiced teammates‚" the team wrote. "In addition‚ poorer performance (fewer kills and more deaths) resulted in more negative statements specifically in the female-voiced manipulation."While becoming more hostile towards female gamers‚ poor-performing gamers tended to be less hostile towards teammates with male voices."As decreased cooperation or behaviors that lead to failure are often punished by teammates‚ the increase of positive and neutral statements and relatively less-frequent use of negative statements suggests poor-performing‚ lower-skilled males are demonstrating submissive behavior towards a male-voiced teammate‚" the team added.Gaming behavior of course has spillover into the real world‚ as seen from Gamergate. "The idea that videogames may be reinforcing such gender segregation as the norm for many teenagers is troubling given the fact that a significant proportion of them are gamers‚" the team concludes. "Such ideas have the potential to spill over in real-life interactions and promote socially unacceptable behaviors such as sexism."The study is published in the journal PLOS ONE.