If you've ever wondered what an egg thinks about its future, how a pigeon experiences city life, or what artificial intelligence might say if it developed a sense of humor, chances are Herta Burbė has already turned the idea into a comic. The Lithuanian illustrator has built a body of work where almost anything can become a character. Rather than relying on recurring protagonists, she gives personalities to animals, plants, everyday objects, historical figures, and abstract concepts, creating self-contained stories that are often as unpredictable as they are amusing.
Burbė's comics often begin with an observation, a familiar habit, a social norm, or an everyday object, and then push that idea just far enough to expose its hidden absurdity. One strip might reimagine prehistoric life, the next gives a flower an opinion, while another explores modern life through the eyes of a cat or a planet. The subjects constantly change, but the underlying approach remains the same: finding fresh ways to look at things most of us have stopped noticing.
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Oh nowadays AI programs will tell you straight up that you shouldn't rely on them; they all (or mostly) added disclosures telling people to verify any information they receive, because the tech companies want to stave off any attempts to regulate them. But users don't care. Many, many users don't even read over what the bot spits out before copy-and-pasting it.
The Peruvians had more than 100 kinds of potatoes, each having a defined use in cooking. We use about 5 varieties today.
I should have known that's how the Little Prince would end up.
Dogs wag their tails to the right if they are feeling happy or confident, and to the left if they are uncertain. Cats flick their tails when agitated or excited (if they see a bird in the yard, for instance)
Take a thick circular rubber ring. Give one side a twist, and it will stabilise into this form. Due to 3-D elasticity.
True. Deep under the surface of Pluto is a warm habitable zone with liquid water. But only habitable to microbes.
Dolly the Sheep, the world's first mammal cloned from an adult cell in 1996, I take it?
I get it, but it's a massive oversimplification. It's not about looking at the device instead of the hardcopy book, it's about how you *use* the device: to numb your brain, or to feed and exercise your brain. (Assuming, of course, that we are discussing adults instead of children, whose brains are in a more primitive developmental stage and thus can be negatively impacted by too much screen time even if it's educational content.) AND YES, I know it's just a joke. But it's a lazy joke.
Yes. The Boston Dynamics dog is a poor poor rendition of an actual dog.
I really rather enjoyed these clever comics :) Thanks, Hidrėlėy and Eglė and have a great weekend 🌞
I really rather enjoyed these clever comics :) Thanks, Hidrėlėy and Eglė and have a great weekend 🌞
