xkcd #3140: Biology Department
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Welcome to the Linguistics Department - It has been [2] [DAYS] since someone noticed that the Biology Department sign has a one-day-long singular/plural disagreement after it resets.
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I remember reading about metamorphosis in lepidoptera ("butterflies") and how the imago ("adult") is able to react to stimuli it learned about when it was still a larvae. that might sound kind of boring in itself until you learn that during the pupal stage the nervous system of lepidoptera exists in a very "fluid" state. that knocked my idea of understanding what memory is almost all the way down to zero again.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6392469/
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0001736