Internet. Humour. Meme. Garyvaynerchuk. Web3.0. Vêtement. Recipes. Discours. Intro to the Semantic Web. Napalm Dragon - Cracheur de feu en slowmotion. Ask a Spy. Les chauves-souris sont décidément bien fascinantes. When the evenings get particularly thick with mosquitoes where I live, I sometimes sit out in the yard with my daughters and look up at the fading sky. Before too long, a single bat will usually flit out of the nearby trees and start flying circles around the house, scooping up bugs along the way. We can barely make out the bat’s wings as it takes its laps, a flicker of membranes.
And so it was a revelation to spend some time earlier this week with two Brown University biologists, Dan Riskin and Sharon Swartz, watching slow-motion movies of bats in flight. There’s a lot going on up there. Bats evolved about 50 million years ago from squirrel-like ancestors. They probably made their first forays into the air as gliders. Bats evolved a way to take advantage of the same laws of physics birds use to fly. And when scientists like Swartz and Riskin study bats, they discover, in fact, that bats are not birds. That same lesson emerges from how bats behave on the ground. Pierre Desproges.
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