Science

Today’s Jesus and Mo strip, called “clowns”, came with this note:

Jesus has been reading Gurwinder again. You should too!

Here are the first two of Gurwinder’s 15 posts on “X” giving useful ideas to get us through 2025:

1. Negative Partisanship:
Many people’s political views revolve not around what they support, but what they oppose. They’re always fighting against something rather than for something, and the constant focus on what they hate makes them nasty and miserable.

— Gurwinder (@G_S_Bhogal) January 1, 2025

And so on to Jesus and Mo, who once again are completely unaware of their hypocrisy:

Today we have a second batch of underwater photos from reader Peter Klaver (first batch here). Today we have underwater wildlife (corals). Peter’s captions are indented, and you can enlarge the photos by clicking on them.

Here is the second batch of photos from scuba diving around San Pedro, Belize earlier this month.

Apart from many animals, the coral reefs there also have a rich abundance of underwater vegetation.

Most of the sea floor in the reefs is covered with various kinds of soft corals.

There are also some hard corals:

. . . including brain corals:

. . .And there are various cylindrical or tubular species whose names I don’t know.