Duckweed

In infrared, duckweed is white* and ducks are invisible**.

* Well, the sensor interprets it as “white”. Colours, even white, are tricky when you’re talking about non-visible light.

**Not really.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

African Crowned Crane

Crane explaining why you shouldn’t worry about the coming economic crash predicted to be ‘worse than the great depression’:

“No, see, the Panama Papers showed us that the rich people have been moving their money overseas for decades, so the vast majority of the world’s monetary supply will be fine. Oh, your money? Your money that’s trapped in the United States? Yeah, that’s going to be worthless, but there’s no point in worrying about it because those same rich people have placed strong barriers in place preventing you from doing anything about it. Since there’s nothing you can do, why worry?”

Cranes aren’t terribly useful economic advisors.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.