…“Perplexed” was a common reaction. Rowling had never been a particularly controversial figure. Her books sold hundreds of millions of copies, they inspired films that brought in billions of dollars, and she used the money she made to save children from orphanages. In 2012, she gave enough to charity and paid enough in taxes to knock herself off the
Forbes billionaires list. In 2020, she was tweeting links to a store that sold pins that said F CK YOUR PRONOUNS.
Read another way, though, the latest turn in Rowling’s story looks perhaps less perplexing than inevitable. It is the culmination of a two-decade power struggle for ownership of her fictional world the right to say what Harry Potter means. The Harry Potter books describe a stark moral universe: Their heroes fight on behalf of all that is good to defeat the forces of absolute evil. Though the struggle may be lonely and hard, right ultimately beats wrong. For fans, when it came to the matter of trans rights, the m
Active displacement, when coming from an octopus, can seem a little pushy as it comes in the form of what we d call a punch. But it could just be a method of working together, and with no other way to communicate, the octopuses punch the fish. Octopuses and fish are known to hunt together, taking advantage of the other s morphology and hunting strategy, explained marine biologist Eduardo Sampaio from the University of Lisbon in Portugal.
Octopuses punch fish. YES. OCTOPUSES. PUNCH. fish!!
Our new paper is out on @ESAEcology, showing that octos express this behavior during collaborative hunting with other fish. This was probably the most fun I had writing a paper. Ever! (small )https://t.co/Vwg9BoaSUopic.twitter.com/PIYuVXpM9t Eduardo Sampaio (@OctoEduardo) December 18, 2020
…“Perplexed” was a common reaction. Rowling had never been a particularly controversial figure. Her books sold hundreds of millions of copies, they inspired films that brought in billions of dollars, and she used the money she made to save children from orphanages. In 2012, she gave enough to charity and paid enough in taxes to knock herself off the
Forbes billionaires list. In 2020, she was tweeting links to a store that sold pins that said F CK YOUR PRONOUNS.
Read another way, though, the latest turn in Rowling’s story looks perhaps less perplexing than inevitable. It is the culmination of a two-decade power struggle for ownership of her fictional world the right to say what Harry Potter means. The Harry Potter books describe a stark moral universe: Their heroes fight on behalf of all that is good to defeat the forces of absolute evil. Though the struggle may be lonely and hard, right ultimately beats wrong. For fans, when it came to the matter of trans rights, the m