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Article: “Scientists Identify Substance That May Have Sparked Life on Earth”

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230310143648.htm

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The Thing a Day Blog Masterpost

Hi! This blog is here to help you learn all kinds of things, from weird random facts to relearning the best ways to learn. I’ll do my best to update as often as I can but no guarantees.

Random Trivia:

-Blue Glaucus

-Volcanoes

-Cool gems/rocks

The Learning Database:

Tips for Researching

Choosing Topics

Google/Browsing Shortcuts

Articles (Mostly engineering and science, sorry):

Quieter and More Efficient Airplanes

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The Blue Glaucus

(The most badass creature in the sea) (ok admittedly maybe not that badass but still pretty badass)

I'm really excited to do the so-called "blue dragon" for my first post, because it is my absolute favorite animal. Even though I thought I knew pretty much everything I could about it, I still learned a couple new things researching.

The blue glaucus, aka glaucus atlanticus, is a 3-centimeter-long sea slug living in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. If you read the title at all, you'd see my claim that the blue glaucus is the most badass creature in the sea. Okay, I exaggerated- maybe they're not exactly super badass. I wouldn't exactly be running away screaming in terror if I saw a one inch "sea slug" floating around at the beach. But, despite its size, the blue glaucus is extremely dangerous. It holds the concentrated venom of its prey, the Portuguese Man O' War (yes, the funky looking jellyfish with extremely long and terrifying tentacles). They're protected from the venom by a layer of mucus in their skin and can store the stinging nematocysts inside of their bodies. As sea slugs, the glaucus isn't poisonous without obtaining the venom from a Man O' War first. However, once stored, a sting from this "blue angel" can kill a human.

The blue glaucus spends most of its time floating around on its back near the ocean surface, hiding from birds and loggerhead sea turtles with a camouflage known as countershading. The glaucus's lighter top and darker blue bottom help it blend into the natural light of the ocean. The blue dragon lives a relatively simple lifestyle, using swallowed CO2 bubbles to float or sinking towards the bottom of shallower waters. It doesn't live very long, with a life span of only a month to a year. With a mucus-covered layer of skin, the blue glaucus is protected from any stings it may receive from its prey.

Some general badass characteristics of the blue glaucus:

-knife-like teeth.

-laying its eggs in its prey's carcasses.

-cannibalism.

-S-shaped dicks. (They also can sting each other during sex.)

-a group of blue glaucuses is called a "blue fleet."

-They're hermaphroditic (hemaphro-DICK-tic, if you will,) meaning a single blue glaucus can produce eggs or sperm.

Here's some article links to the sites I used: Blue Glaucus - Oceana,

Blue Glaucus Facts & Information Guide - American Oceans

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Thing a Day Blog

Hey everyone, this blog is going to be my Thing a Day blog!

This was something I started a few years back, as a way to learn more about the things I was interested in. I will try to post something every day (but more likely every week or less) about a completely random topic I’ve researched. I’ll provide links if anyone is interested in learning more!

So far some of the things I’m interested in researching or have already done some research on are general history, geography, geology (only the cool rocks, though,) volcanoes/mountains/waterfalls, jellyfish, physics, mechanics, astronomy, biology, chemistry, basic coding, quantum physics, and other topics as well.

Other features of this blog are going to include posting articles and resources to help you learn. Throughout this entire process, I’ve started to learn essentially how to learn, which was really hard for me at first since I didn’t know what I was doing at all. This is going to be as much of me teaching myself as me teaching others, and I’d love to keep this blog as a resource for myself and others who want to learn but may feel overwhelmed with the whole internet at their fingertips.