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Lords:
* Elena is reading Cordyceps by Benedict_SC. https://archiveofourown.org/works/6178036/chapters/14154868
* Avery's solo album is on Bandcamp. https://averyburke.bandcamp.com/releases
Topics:
* 2:58 Male pigeons feed their young with "crop milk" produced in glands in their throat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cropmilk
* Fennec Foxes. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fennec&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images
* "Squid will survive and may even flourish under even the worst-case ocean acidification scenarios." https://news-oceanacidification-icc.org/2019/06/14/squid-could-thrive-under-climate-change/
* The Honeyguide will show you the honey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeyguide
* Do birds sweat? https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061208141845AAtuY9L
* "Several months before his death, Lee had an operation to remove the sweat glands from his armpits." And this may have lead to his death from heat stroke. https://www.history.com/news/bruce-lee-death-mystery-solved-sweat-glands
* 18:07 Elena's friends use lexicalized emoji to communicate.
* Alice and Kev, homeless Sims. https://aliceandkev.wordpress.com/
* Happy Birthday, Wanda June. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HappyBirthday,WandaJune
* 35:08 The story of the guy who wanted and then didn't want a mattress.
* Vintage Pump Organs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiqnINpIz74
* 44:46 Singing cowboys and their ethical codes, which demanded their young fans keep clean and invest in savings accounts. http://www.cowboyway.com/GeneAutry.htm
* Alice's Restaurant Massacree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPx2t7xoF1k
* 55:40 Dimensions in candy space: chocolate, fruit, ...?
* All figs contain a dissolved wasp. https://gardencollage.com/inspire/wild-earth/true-dead-wasps-inside-figs/
* "An emerald cockroach wasp (Ampulex compressa) can control the minds of roaches with a sting of its venom." https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/02/parasitic-wasps-parkinsons-future-research-spd/
* The neotenized Domesticated Red Fox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticatedredfox
* Humans may have domesticated themselves: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-humans-maybe-domesticated-themselves
Microtopics:
* Infohazards.
* Living in a house with instruments on the wall because you're a musician, not because you're a massive hipster.
* Scientists who would describe cottage cheese as creamy.
* Pigeon milk cappuccinos.
* Animals that thrive in the city biome.
* Anaerobic squid thriving in the oceans we ruined.
* Honey-loving birds ditching their lame badger companions for fire-making humans.
* Flame-throwing badgers demanding bird exes take them back.
* Birds sweating out of their throats.
* East Asian people have different earwax from white people.
* Going deaf every few months due to earwax buildup.
* Monetizing your overactive sebaceous glands.
* Transplanting superior Asian sebaceous glands into your shitty white person's body.
* What do mammals have that birds haven't taken from us?
* The kiwi bird has ostrich-sized eggs.
* Realizing that the kiwi isn't the size of a kiwi.
* Thanking people by applying a turkey to them.
* Missing the rest of the conversation because you were trying to find the perfect emoji.
* Needing more than one train emoji.
* Starving because your food options are equidistant.
* Building the perfect Sims family so you can wreck their lives.
* Walking into a random house and the occupants being fine with it.
* Debuting moon landing footage you found in the bathroom.
* Opening up a cabinet at NASA and moon rocks spilling out.
* Your bosses at NASA not really caring when you destroy old SETI documents.
* Cats climbing discarded mattresses to hunt.
* Sense of thirst being hereditary.
* Kidney stones as a delayed sign of thirst.
* Finally getting to the part where the guy wants a mattress.
* Being finished loving the mattress.
* The Sunken Mattress Fallacy.
* Discovering the organ you just destroyed was from the 19th century.
* Playing music by touching the bones of a dead creature.
* Being the de facto authority because everyone else knows even less.
* Putting money into Gene Autrey's savings account.
* Building good citizens through singing cowboys.
* Issuing an arrest warrant for secret reasons.
* Appreciating the 19th-century sheriff's weird forehead while waiting to be arrested.
* Sitting there on the Group W bench.
* Teacher rewarding you with the cheapest possible candy.
* Mistaking your deodorant for tamarind candy.
* Being weird in the way that figs are weird.
* Fertilizing figs with your dissolved corpse.
* Sharing your fig with a friend so only one of you eats a dissolved wasp.
* Not believing new information because it's implausible that you didn't already know it.
* Wasps parasiting other wasps.
* Figs no longer being considered vegan.
* Closing your tiger restaurant because tigers are infeasible to farm.
* Accidentally inventing puppies when you just wanted your fox farm to be safer.
* Collecting a breeding population of raccoons.
* Rats escaping their cage so they can cuddle you.
* Outliving your pet parrot.
* Being an ageless rat guardian.
* Orcas rubbing themselves on flat rocks and nobody knows why.
* Orcas rubbing themselves on flat rocks because they're itchy.
* An octopus friend to untangle wires for you.
* Uplifting the octopus race merely by lengthening their lifespan.
* Uplifted octopodes inventing Twitter and becoming miserable.
* Thinking your chimp knows ASL because it's mirroring your actions.
* Worshiping Cthulhu in a secular humanist kind of way.
* Making jokes no-one will get instead of doing proper marketing.
