An infamous koala nicknamed "Claude" has conducted a broad-daylight heist on the Eastern Forest Nursery in South Gundurimba, New South Wales, Australia. Last year, workers at the nursery – which grows eucalyptus trees for a koala habitat – noticed that a number of their plants appeared to have been chewed on."One morning we came to work and there was an area of eucalyptus that had freshly been munched by something. We noticed there was a koala clinging onto a pole next to the tables where the seedlings had been eaten," Eastern Forest Nursery manager Hymphrey Herington explained to World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Australia following the latest heist. "Yeah, I would never have believed it was a koala until I've seen him actually sitting there on the pole."Herington captured images of the koala, which caught the attention of the world's media.        IFLScience is not responsible for content shared from external sites.This year, the eucalyptus plants have been surrounded by extra security – but Claude returned nonetheless."We've fenced three sides, and we had a fence with a wobbly shade cloth top, the theory being that if he tried to climb up he would fall back outside the fence," Herington told ABC News. "Then one day the staff actually saw him. He climbed up the shade cloth and was coming down onto the poles and getting into the nursery. That was three o'clock in the afternoon. That was an interesting visit, coming in for an early feed."Cameras installed by the WWF showed that Claude was not eating the plants alone."Around the nursery you could probably count up to 12 or more koalas in the trees," Herington told ABC News, adding "some of those pictures show a female with a joey on her back."           Last year, Claude munched his way through thousands of dollars' worth of eucalyptus plants. Following media stories, one company donated 6,000 seedlings to the nursery, who in turn donated the seedlings to the WWF."With koala Claude and his friends going to the nursery to eat seedlings, it shows how they’re desperate for food trees," Koalas Forever project Officer Maria Borges told WWF, "and this area that we are right now, the Northern Rivers, especially around Lismore, is heavily cleared, and it's really missing good quality habitat for them."That shows how we need to plant more trees and how we need to stop, urgently, tree-clearing, especially all around the Northern Rivers, that it’s a stronghold for koala populations in New South Wales."

Jose Yong: Research is showing that many of our contemporary problems, such as the rising prevalence of mental health issues, are emerging from rapid technological advancement and modernisation. A theory that can help explain why we respond poorly to modern conditions, despite the choices, safety and other benefits they bring, is evolutionary mismatch. Mismatch happens when an evolved adaptation, either physical or psychological, becomes misaligned with the environment. Take moths and some species of nocturnal flies, for example. Because they have to navigate in the dark, they evolved to use the moon for direction. But due to the invention of artificial lighting, many moths and flies are drawn to street lamps and indoor lights instead. The same happens for humans. A classic example is our “sweet tooth”, which motivated ancestral humans to search for calorie-rich foods in nutritionally scarce environments. This sweet tooth becomes mismatched to the modern world when food companies mass produce foods laden with refined sugars and fat, hijacking an otherwise useful trait. The result is tooth decay, obesity and diabetes. The modern world is replete with things that make our once-adaptive instincts go awry. For instance, humans evolved to live in kin-based, nomadic tribes of approximately 50 to 150 close-knit people. Our adaptive need to belong functions well in such settings. In large cities populated by hundreds of thousands of strangers, however, people can end up feeling lonely and like they have not many close friends. Studies have also shown that when social animals are kept in crowded spaces, they experience competitive stress which has consequences for physical health such as poorer immune functioning and reduced fertility. Like the animals in the crowding studies, humans living in crowded cities too can experience unprecedented levels of stress and tend to have fewer children. The social inequality in modern societies also differs from the more egalitarian hunter-gatherer environment. Humans evolved to care about social status, which motivates us to redress status gaps between ourselves and others. But when social disparity is too intense and people like Elon Musk, whose net worth would take the average American several million years of work at the mean annual wage to catch up with, are regularly made salient by the media, our concerns with social status can lead to social status anxiety. Social media exacerbates the problems associated with social comparisons. As people typically share the best sides of themselves online, social media presents a skewed impression of reality, which can make viewers feel worse about their own. The quantification of worth through likes and followers also allows people to obsess with greater precision over where they stand in relation to others. Several problematic trends can be understood from this evolutionary mismatch. For instance, competition and status anxiety have been linked to obsessions with educational attainment, vying for prestigious jobs and materialism. There is a growing trend of “going broke to look rich”, as people incur debt to afford things that create the impression of having status. People are also more likely to take risks when they feel that they need to gain a competitive edge. Coupled with the rising cost of living, people can find their jobs are inadequate not only to keep up with societal expectations but also to build wealth. A 2023 report by global investment professionals association, the CFA Institute, indicated that many Gen Z people are turning to risky investments like cryptocurrencies in a bid to cope. The intensely competitive modern world can also drive people to undergo dangerous cosmetic surgeries and weight loss regimes. As people struggle to live up to society’s expectations of successful adults, they seem to be redefining their goals in life. Surveys of Gen Z and Millennial respondents have found that increasing costs of living are forcing these age groups to lower their career ambitions and give up the idea of owning a home, starting a family or even finding a romantic partner. A 2023 survey of 55,000 people born between 1981 and 2012 found that respondents are focusing on caring more for their mental and physical health instead. When competition becomes too intense, people may internalise the pressure and experience anxiety or depression. Researchers have linked self-harm and depression to people feeling they can no longer deal with the demands of modern society. These trends are especially prevalent in countries with a strong shame culture, such as Japan and South Korea. Studies have shown that some externalising responses may include anger at the perceived unfairness of a contest that seems impossible to win, resulting in cynicism, aggression and hostility. A manifestation of this anger can be noted in, for example, “incel” circles, in which men often feel they are unable to find a romantic or sexual partner because the odds are unjustly stacked against them. What can we do The evolutionary mismatch perspective doesn’t suggest that we return completely to an ancestral way of life, but to find ways to adjust our environment such that it aligns better with our evolved nature. For example, we can think of ways to engineer the built environment to reduce crowdedness or increase access to nature. Indeed, nature immersion, such as forest-bathing (focusing on sensory engagement to connect with nature) and community gardening, can reduce stress and improve wellbeing. Lifestyle changes to reduce consumerism and exposure to mass and social media, alongside focusing on meaningful work rather than job prestige, are also likely to help. Some counter-trends like minimalism and mindfulness indicate a growing awareness that finding contentment in the little things can allow us to avoid the pitfalls of modernity. These are just some ideas. But appreciating the evolutionary basis of our problems and raising awareness of the mismatch perspective may give us a better chance of tackling them at the root. Jose Yong, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The post Human culture is changing too fast for evolution to catch up appeared first on Anomalien.com.

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Elden Ring has its fair share of unusual armor, but nothing quite as bizarre as the Mushroom set. Fittingly enough, the set makes the wearer look like an old tree stump with mushrooms and lichens growing all over it. While it doesnt offer particularly good damage negation, the Mushroom armor set does provide good resistance.

In Elden Ring, new spells arent the easiest to come by. You must befriend a mentor, do various missions for them, and continue to befriend multiple mentors scattered around the Lands Between in order to find new and more powerful spells. But there is a shortcut to learning more magic from a singular mentor.

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Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 in October 2025, but the company is now taking the unusual step of reopening its beta program for Windows 10 to test new features and improvements. Windows 10 already got the AI Copilot feature that was originally exclusive to Windows 11, and it may well get other features soon. “To bring new features and more improvements to Windows 10 as needed, we need a place to do active feature development with Windows Insiders,” explains Microsoft’s Windows Insider team in a blog post. “So today, we are opening the Beta Channel for Windows Insiders who are currently on Windows 10.” Microsoft hasn’t revealed what additional Windows 10 features it plans to test next, but Windows Insiders can opt into the... Continue reading…

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