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You name it – from ladybugs and thousands of grasshoppers to a World War II artillery shell‚ if it's small enough it's probably been found in someone's butt.Usually‚ it's not exactly baffling how the objects got up there. But just occasionally‚ there is a real mystery. Recently‚ for example‚ a team conducted a colonoscopy on a 63-year-old man and found a fly lurking in his colon. The man‚ who had an unremarkable history of minor heart problems‚ asthma‚ and tinnitus‚ showed up for his colonoscopy having prepared his bowels for the procedure. Not having a view clear of debris is detrimental to the usefulness of a colonoscopy in diagnosis‚ and as such medical professionals have come up with a scale of cleanliness known as the Boston Bowel Preparation Scale. Just as you can have your erections graded (when medically necessary) you can have your colon cleanliness assessed on a scale from 0 to 9. The right colon‚ transverse colon‚ and left colon are assessed on a scale from 0 ("mucosa is not visible due to solid feces‚ and the fecal masses cannot be removed") to 3 ("the entire mucosa of the colon segment can be seen well‚ with no residual soiling"). These scores are then added up for the overall score‚ with the patient in question scoring 2 ("the mucosa of the colon segment can be seen well‚ with minor amounts of residual stool‚ small fragments of stool and/or opaque liquid") in all segments for a good overall score of 6.With a clear view‚ as well as moderate pancolonic diverticulosis‚ five colon polyps‚ and hemorrhoids‚ the team found a fly hanging out in the transverse colon. The fly was not moving‚ even when prodded by the doctor performing the colonoscopy."The patient was unsure on how the fly got into his colon‚" the team explained in his case report‚ adding that the find was very rare and a mystery. "He had strictly consumed clear liquids the day before the procedure. He reported having eaten pizza and lettuce for the evening meal 2 days before the procedure‚ but does not recall a fly in his food."And yet here the fly was‚ seemingly completely intact after its ordeal and subsequent death.The study is published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology.

JWST has gazed deep into the heart of our Milky Way galaxy and spotted some never-before-seen features that astronomers are yet to fully understand.The image shows Sagittarius C‚ a star-forming region located around 300 light-years from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way‚ Sagittarius A*. This is relatively close to the galactic center and provides the stage for some especially exciting star formation activity. “The galactic center is a crowded‚ tumultuous place. There are turbulent‚ magnetized gas clouds that are forming stars‚ which then impact the surrounding gas with their outflowing winds‚ jets‚ and radiation. Webb has provided us with a ton of data on this extreme environment‚ and we are just starting to dig into it‚” Rubén Fedriani‚ a co-investigator of the project at the Instituto Astrofísica de Andalucía in Spain‚ said in a statement.Captured by JWST’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera)‚ the image shows a cluster of approximately 500‚000 stars and protostars that are forming and glowing against the backdrop of violent infrared-dark clouds. In the middle of the cluster‚ we can see a massive protostar over 30 times the mass of our Sun. The darker patches of the image might initially seem less crowded with stars and protostars‚ but the opposite is true; these are the most crowded parts of the image. It only appears less busy because the cloud surrounding the protostars is so dense that the light from the stars behind it cannot reach JWST. The full version of the newly released image of Sagittarius C in the Milky Way.Image Credit: NASA‚ ESA‚ CSA‚ STScI‚ S. Crowe (UVA)The strangest feature of the image is the cyan-colored feature surrounding the lower side of the dark cloud. As explained by the researchers‚ you’d typically expect this to be produced by energetic photons being emitted by young massive stars‚ but they suspect that JWST has picked up on something more significant‚ which they’re keen to investigate.The team also wants to look further into the needle-like structures in the ionized hydrogen that chaotically appear in the cyan-color haze.“There’s never been any infrared data on this region with the level of resolution and sensitivity we get with Webb‚ so we are seeing lots of features here for the first time. Webb reveals an incredible amount of detail‚ allowing us to study star formation in this sort of environment in a way that wasn’t possible previously‚” explained Samuel Crowe‚ the observation team’s principal investigator and undergraduate student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.“The image from Webb is stunning‚ and the science we will get from it is even better. Massive stars are factories that produce heavy elements in their nuclear cores‚ so understanding them better is like learning the origin story of much of the universe‚” he added.

Penguin plumage may look like adorable little tuxedos‚ but new research has shown they serve a very practical purpose too. It seems African penguins and two of their close relatives use the dots on their bellies as “name tags” that enable them to identify one another‚ even amid a bustling throng of other penguins.Humans are not alone in their ability to identify individuals from among their species based on specific marks and characteristics. Previous research has shown that primates are capable of this‚ but so are others. Paper wasps‚ for instance‚ can recognize the faces of other wasps‚ while some parrots appear to give their offspring names which are articulated as specific squarks.In birds‚ the ability to identify individuals has largely been based on audio signals‚ rather than visual ones. This makes sense if you think that‚ in most cases‚ the animals will be hiding in trees and so may not be easy to distinguish visually. However‚ it seems there are some exceptions to this.For example‚ it is known that Bewick's swans‚ a particularly diminutive species of swan found in Europe‚ identify one another via sight. But it is not currently known how they do so. Well‚ that was until the penguins waddled onto the researchers' radar.It seems a colony of African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) held at the Zoomarine Italia‚ a marine park near Rome‚ may well hold a clue as to how birds recognize one another.According to Luigi Baciadonna‚ a psychologist who conducted the work while at the University of Turin‚ the little dots on these bird’s chests are striking‚ reports Science. The patterns appear to be unique to each penguin‚ allowing zookeepers to identify and keep an eye on the animals they look after. So do the birds use these markings for the same purpose?To test it‚ Baciadonna and colleagues set up a simple test at the park to explore it. At feeding time‚ a penguin would be gently ushered into a small enclosure. At the end of the space were two life-size photographs of other penguins – one of the enclosed penguin’s mate and the other of another member of its colony.The aim was to see if the enclosed penguin would spend more time looking at its mate than it did the other image‚ which‚ they believed‚ would suggest the animal recognized the image.The researchers found that the penguins did indeed spend longer looking at the photo of their mate (23 seconds on average) than they did the other penguin and that they spent almost double the time standing next to them.Following this‚ the team edited the photo of the penguins to remove their dots. They then repeated the experiment with two images – one of the penguin’s mate and one with the same bird without its dots. Once again‚ the birds spent more time looking at the image of their mate with their markings.Finally‚ in a third test‚ the penguins were shown two photos similar to the first test (with a photo of their mate and another member of their colony)‚ only in this version the researchers removed the dots from both images. And‚ as you may have guessed‚ the birds did not seem to recognize their mate.It seems then that the ability to recognize other individuals from the same species is an ability held by more animals than previously thought. We bet you won’t look at penguins the same way again.The study is published in Animal Behaviour.[H/T: Science]

When we say the words “science experiment”‚ it probably conjures up images of bubbling flasks of brightly colored chemicals‚ or shooting laser beams‚ or basically anything from the opening sequence of Dexter’s Laboratory. It probably doesn’t make you think of a bunch of people sitting in a room watching a video of someone shaking a box. But scientists recently carried out this last experiment‚ and behind a deceptively unglamorous exterior is a fascinating insight into the workings of the human brain.This experiment aimed to test something that you are likely very skilled at‚ even if you’ve never thought about it before. Come for the science‚ stay for the ego boost.“Just by looking at how someone’s body is moving‚ you can tell what they are trying to learn about their environment‚” explained study author Chaz Firestone‚ an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University‚ in a statement. “We do this all the time‚ but there has been very little research on it.”What Firestone is referring to here is a type of behavior called an epistemic action. These are actions we perform when we’re trying to learn some information about an object or our environment. What the box-shaking experiment demonstrates is that humans are very good at understanding the reasoning behind someone else’s behaviors.  The team recruited 500 people and asked them to watch these two videos of someone shaking a box.Could you tell who was trying to figure out the number of items in the box‚ and who was trying to figure out the shape of the items? Almost all of the 500 participants could‚ and they figured it out within seconds.“What is surprising to me is how intuitive this is‚” said lead author Sholei Croom. “People really can suss out what others are trying to figure out‚ which shows how we can make these judgments even though what we’re looking at is very noisy and changes from person to person.”The next thing the team would like to investigate is how adept we are at telling the difference between epistemic actions and another‚ sometimes similar‚ class of behaviors called pragmatic actions. For example‚ you might dip your toe into the bath to check the water temperature before diving right in – that would be an epistemic action. However‚ you would also probably place your foot in the water first if you were simply getting into the bath‚ secure in the knowledge that the water was just right – that would be a pragmatic action.“It’s one thing to know where someone is headed or what product they are reaching for. But it’s another thing to infer whether someone is lost or what kind of information they are seeking‚” Firestone summarized.Far from simply being a fascinating window into an under-studied area of human cognition‚ this work could have real-world implications. One example is in the field of artificial intelligence (AI)‚ developing robots that can deduce what we’re looking for from our actions‚ just as we humans do all the time without realizing.The team‚ which also included sophomore neuroscience student Hanbei Zhou‚ is also keen to learn more about when in human development these undeniably impressive skills start to appear.Firestone said‚ “When you think about all the mental calculations someone must make to understand what someone else is trying to learn‚ it’s a remarkably complicated process. But our findings show it’s something people do easily.”Go us!The study is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In the winter of 1999‚ a man disappeared in the countryside. His tracks in the snow suddenly stopped‚ his dog was acting strangely‚ refusing to leave the part of the road from which he had disappeared‚ and the day before‚ all the dogs in the village were barking at the same time. ÄŒechočovice is a small rural village in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic with a population of only 279. This small‚ unassuming village‚ however‚ would be home to one of the strangest disappearances in Czech history. Very little is known about 55-year-old Vladimír Bastl‚ other than the fact that he was born in either 1943 or 1944 and worked as a handyman in the village of Krahulov. At 3:00 AM on January 14‚ 1999‚ Vladimír woke up to walk to Krahulov as he had work in the morning. As it was January‚ snow had just begun to fall‚ but that didn’t stop him from taking the same route to work he usually took‚ walking along Czech motorway I/23 from ÄŒechočovice to Krahulov. Four witnesses would state that they had seen Vladimír walking along the road shortly after he had left the confines of the village. Vladimír Bastl 1 to 2 hours later‚ another worker noticed that Vladimír had yet to arrive at work‚ observing that the building he was meant to do repairs on was deserted‚ with its lights off and no signs of Vladimír having ever showed up. The worker called her boss‚ who headed over to Vladimír’s home and found his unfinished breakfast and an unfinished cup of coffee on his table. He let Vladimír’s dog off its leash in hopes that it may be able to find him. The dog led him down the road where Vladimír was seen walking‚ with his boss noticing the footprints in the snow before the prints abruptly stopped. However‚ once the dog got to the end of Vladimír’s footprints‚ it began to behave strangely—cringing‚ growling‚ and barking—refusing to leave that area of the road. Eventually‚ Vladimír’s boss had to pick up his dog and carry him back into the village. Once the sun came up‚ the police were informed‚ and an extensive search effort was launched to find Vladimír. The residents of ÄŒechočovice to Krahulov and Vladimír’s relatives‚ assisted by the police‚ firefighters‚ and the Czech army‚ searched the area and forests. The Steklý pond was also searched‚ but to no avail. The search was called off but in the spring after the snow had melted‚ search efforts were resumed in an effort to recover his body but also failed to find any trace of him. The official position of the police was that someone had struck Vladimír with their vehicle before frantically placing his body in their car and disposing of him somewhere. Critics of this theory believe it is unlikely as there would be signs of something being amiss in the foot prints or evidence of blood on the road. Nowadays and even back then‚ his case is viewed a bit differently with the Supernatural and a possible alien abduction being suspected. The main suspicions originate from all the oddities such as his tracks and trail in the snow abruptly ceasing and the lack of any signs of a vehicle collision at the scene. But to ufologists and those believing in the supernatural the most compelling oddities are the bizarre behaviors of the animals in the village such as the behavior of Vladimír’s dog upon reaching the end of Vladimír’s footprints and its refusal to leave the area and three days after the disappearance his dog suddenly left without warning and for seemingly no reason. It wasn’t just his dog. According to residents and first-hand accounts every dog in the village at the same time no matter where they were would begin to bark non stop which was something very unusual especially for the “local conditions.” The barking lasted for a very long time and the villagers described the sound as somehow “different” the barking would soon stop however this all started shortly after Vladimír’s last reported sighting. One more thing worth noting is how his family mainly his cousins and parents believe in this line of thinking. They had been deeply interested in both the UFO phenomenon and spiritualism with Vladimír seemingly the only one in the family to have no interest in the topic. This idea seemed to be mainstream at the time: a Czech newspaper published an article entitled “Uneslo jej UFO”‚ which translated into English means “He was abducted by a UFO.” Some others who lean towards the supernatural aspect also speculate that he may have experienced a time shift or traveled to another dimension. It is interesting that after so many years and efforts‚ the man’s body was never found. Officially‚ his case is still considered open by the Czech police‚ but there have been no further updates in over 20 years. The post The Supernatural Disappearance of Vladimir Bastl appeared first on Anomalien.com.

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This is going to keep happening to American media outlets when they hire local freelancers to cover the Israel-Hamas war. Joseph Wulfsohn at Fox News reported that Marwat Al-Azza‚ a freelance producer in East Jerusalem for NBC News‚ was arrested by Israeli authorities Thursday "on suspicion of inciting terrorism and identifying with a terrorist organization." The Jerusalem Post reported Saturday that Al-Azza was taken into custody in response to her social media posts about the October 7 slaughter by Hamas. "These are very serious offenses during a time of declared war when the respondent lives and makes a living in the same country that is under attack and yet chooses to incite and glorify the horrible acts committed against civilians‚" a police spokesperson stated in court‚ according to The Post.  According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz‚ on October 7 Al-Azza wrote on Facebook about an elderly woman who was kidnapped‚ "It’s killing me‚ it’s a black comedy‚ the old woman looks happy‚ a bit of action before she dies." She also reportedly posted: "Sirens all the time‚ the Jews are hiding and the Arabs are out drinking coffee on their balconies‚" and "I feel like I’m watching a movie where the director is Palestinian and the protagonists are from Gaza." An NBC News spokesperson told Fox News Digital‚ "The investigation of Ms. Azza is unrelated to NBC News. It is based on her personal Facebook posts that predate her time with us as a freelancer. We were not aware of those posts before we engaged Ms. Azza four weeks ago. She will not be contributing to our coverage going forward."  Wulfsohn reported the journalist was hired as a freelance producer by NBC News "around October 21‚" according to a person familiar with the situation‚ adding that her work for NBC News "did not uncover any issues." Does this mean that the usual tone of Israel coverage at NBC doesn't differ much from a Palestinian terrorist sympathizer?

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