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Every game has a pseudo-legendary Dragon-type, and it's Pokemon Sword and Shield Dreepy you're after in Galar. Dreepy is a Dragon/Ghost-type hybrid in Pokemon Sword and Shield, and it evolves into Drakloak first, followed by Dragapult. As you'd expect, it's one of the strongest Pokemon in the game when you level it up and evolve it, so people are wondering how to get Dreepy in Pokemon Sword and Shield, and where its location is. Worry not, for we've got all the Pokemon Sword and Shield Dreepy information you need to fill your boxes with endless Dreepys. Dreepies?

If you want to catch Dreepy in Pokemon Sword and Shield, you need to head to one specific location. Go to the very north-west corner of the Pokemon Sword and Shield Wild Area and visit the Lake of Outrage. You'll need to have unlocked the surf modification for your Rotom Bike first though, so make sure you've completed Circhester Gym and explored Route 9.

Cross the body of water and you'll reach a small area of land which has a lot of rare Pokemon spawns. One of these can be Dreepy, but it's not going to be easy to get one. Dreepy has a 1% chance of spawning as a non-overworld encounter (so as an exclamation point in the tall grass) in Overcast weather, and a 2% chance in Heavy Fog and a Thunderstorm. Yeah, those aren't brilliant odds.

Thankfully, you can also encounter Drakloak, its first evolution in the wild. That one is a standard Overworld encounter so you'll see it appear before you engage with it, and it has a 1% chance in Overcast and Rain, and a 2% chance in Heavy Fog and a Thunderstorm. Not much better, but at least you can look for both Pokemon simultaneously. Of course, if you manage to catch a male and a female Drakloak, you can leave the pair at the Pokemon Nursery in order to breed a Dreepy.

If you catch a Dreepy, you thankfully don't need any special items to make it evolve. It will evolve into Drakloak at level 50, followed by Dragapult at level 60. When you do get Dragapult, it can learn some incredibly powerful moves like Phantom Force at level 48, Dragon Rush at level 63, and Last Resort at level 78.

In terms of the best Dragapult nature in Pokemon Sword and Shield, that has to go to Adamant. Since Dragapult is likely to have a higher speed than whichever Pokemon you're up against anyway, the attack bonus is vital for physical attacks. Keep breeding Dreepy with Ditto to search for a high IV Dreepy with the best abiliies and before long, you'll have one of the best attackers in the game.

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Pokemon Sword and Shield Dreepy: Where to catch Dreepy and evolve it into Drakloak and Dragapult - GamesRadar

Not every Pokemon in the game has two evolutions, so its always great to find ones that do in each new game. Pokemon Sword and Shield has introduced multiple new ones into the mix, with Rolycoly being one of those new Pokemon to have a full evolution chain. This Pokemons evolutions have very useful typing and this guide will detail how you can get that next form.

Rolycoly is not a Pokemon you should come across right away in Pokemon Sword and Shield, but it wont be too far into the game. Once you do have Rolycoly in your possession, go ahead and add it to your party and start raising it up. Depending on when you get Rolycoly, it should be able to slot right into your team based on its level.

Geting Rolycoly to evolve to its next form should be rather easy, as all you have to do is raise its level up to a certain level. Once Rolycoly hits level 18, it will turn into Carkol, which is not a Rock/Fire type instead of Rock type. Unless you have Scorbunny in your party, this is definitely a good Pokemon to have with you moving forward.

Upon evolution, Carkol also learns Flame Charge, which is definitely worth learning since it is now a Fire type as well.

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Urbanization and the spread of artificial light are transforming life for all of earth's species, bringing about a host of unintended consequences.

By: Christopher Preston

In 1800, only two percent of the human population lived in cities. A century later, that portion grew to 15 percent. Then, sometime in 2007, a person was born in a city somewhere on the globe who tipped the proportion of Homo sapiens that lives in cities over the 50 percent mark. Despite the fact that cities cover only two to three percent of terrestrial surface area, more than half of humanity is now urban-dwelling. There is no going back.

For a species that spent close to 200,000 years living in grasslands and scrubby forests, hunting and foraging, and using skins, wood, and grasses for shelter, we are increasingly occupying an evolutionarily unfamiliar niche, where the sensory and physical dimensions of a life lived in daily contact with the natural world have been replaced by a whole set of alternate experiences: Cement and traffic, 90-degree corners, bars, sirens, glass, and streetlights increasingly dominate our senses. As far as our genes are concerned, we live in an alien world. Phobias about snakes slithering out of toilet bowls, coyotes snatching children out of strollers, and diseases infiltrating city water supplies reveal the location of our biological roots. The shadow of the wild continues to haunt the psyche of even the most entrenched urbanite.

Alongside us, fast-breeding and opportunistic species are changing their behaviors and their genomes so that they will fit better in the urban world. City-dwelling swallows are evolving shorter wings that allow them to avoid the traffic better, and sparrows and starlings have raised the pitch of their calls to compensate for the background urban noise. Moths are gaining different color patterns so that they have more suitable camouflage in their new concrete habitat. Evolutionary forces are turning city-bound mice into separate subspecies in different city parks, unable to exchange genes with cousins who live a few blocks away.

Evolutionary forces are turning city-bound mice into separate subspecies in different city parks, unable to exchange genes with cousins who live a few blocks away.

A second and related agent of evolutionary change is the progressive banishment of darkness from the world at the hands of electric light. Paul Bogard has written poignantly of his deep regret at the end of night. He points out that the spread of electricity across many parts of the globe has condemned real darkness to the planets history. This lack of night comes with sizable biological consequences. Excessive illumination is disrupting the natural rhythms created by millions of years of the earths steady axial rotation.

The first photos of the earth from space taken by lunar-bound astronauts revealed a spectacular blue marble poised in front of a star-speckled expanse. The individuals lucky enough to see the planet from this vantage point were all transformed. American astronaut Edgar Mitchell memorably described his impression of it as a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. The planets finitude, its swirling beauty, and its apparent fragility gave our species its first clear sense of our lack of astral significance. Norman Cousins later remarked that what was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that man set foot on the Moon but that they set eye on the Earth.

More recent photographs of the earth taken at night have revealed a pearl that is increasingly crossed by spider webs of yellow light projected from cities and the transportation corridors between them. The world is now comprehensively illuminated. Thanks to the ubiquity of electric light, less and less of the planet falls genuinely into darkness any more. Power shunted through incandescent filaments, the gases of fluorescent lights, and a billion light-emitting diodes means that darkness is being pushed off the landscape by this electric interloper. Synthetic light races through the air for miles beyond its intended destination, leading to a diffusion rate that far exceeds that attainable by the bulldozers and diggers that make its spread possible.

Prior to Thomas Edisons design of the first commercially viable light bulb, nighttime illumination came only from flames fueled by imperfect sources, such as wood, whale oil, paraffin, and natural gas. The light from these sources danced unpredictably and was always mottled by the smoke of imperfect combustion. The spread of the light was limited by available fuel, environmental conditions, and a basic lack of penetration. Many still feel attached to the light provided by a cavorting flame, seeking it out from wood and wax when wishing to disappear into memories or create venues for intimacy.

When the limited light cast by these flames was overtaken by that of incandescent bulbs, the nighttime started to change its color from a deep inky black to various shades of orange, yellow, and white. The carefree spreading of megawatts of unused light into the night sky has led to a pale dome of illumination above every population center. This glow refuses to leave the citys vault even when most of its residents are asleep. Bogard quotes an Iroquois writer who told him we have the night so the Earth can rest. As electrification has spread across the world, the amount of rest available to the earth has diminished. This loss to the planet also appears increasingly to be a loss of our own.

Human bodies have natural circadian rhythms. These rhythms are adjustments to the waxing and waning of light during the earths daily rotations. Evolution lodged such patterns deeply inside of us. The circadian rhythm has an influence on hormone production, body temperature regulation, blood pressure, and other key functions. Plants, animals, cyanobacteria, and fungi all have similar rhythms that are their own evolutionary adaptations to the rising and setting of the sun. Leaves turn to face the sun and drop in the fall, petals open and close daily, animals rest, and bacteria fix nitrogen at rates that are direct responses to periodic and predictable changes in light. When patterns of light and darkness change, organisms must rapidly adapt or pay the price.

When patterns of light and darkness change, organisms must rapidly adapt or pay the price.

Consider that more than a fifth of all mammal species are bats. In addition to these well-known lovers of a dark world, 60 percent of invertebrates and 30 percent of vertebrates are nocturnal. This means that a large number of the living forms that share the planet with us have evolved so that darkness is an essential factor in their well-being. Of those species that are not fully nocturnal, a large number are crepuscular, a word that has exactly the right sound to describe the creeping and partially hidden character of activity that takes place at twilight.

The swapping out of darkness for light across much of the planet affects all of these species. Sea turtles emerging from the surf and no longer able to navigate by the moon due to beachfront floodlights are perhaps the best-known victims of artificial illumination. But in addition to the turtles, countless other species are shifting their behavioral patterns to accommodate a planet that is increasingly lit up.

Peregrine falcons, for example, are adapting to the new frontier of urban living by figuring out how to hunt pigeons, ducks, and bats in the city at night. The nocturnal hunt no longer involves the 200-mile-per-hour stoop from above that has made peregrines famous as the fastest birds on earth. Illumination provided by the glowing city means that the nighttime ambushes involve a new type of stalk. Peregrines fly upward toward the illuminated bellies of their unsuspecting prey, rotating at the last second to pierce the hapless victims feathered breast with their deadly talons. Like Homo sapiens adapting to the city, peregrines are figuring out ways to live, feed, and rest in a world that no longer resembles the one their genes prepared them to find.

Meanwhile, in developed countries, up to 20 percent of the workforce is employed in service industries that require employees to be awake for large portions of the night. Night-shift workers such as janitors, health care attendants, and those who labor in 24-hour manufacturing facilities are some of the people who bear this burden. Those who work the graveyard shift seldom replace the number of hours of sleep they missed at night with the same number of hours of sleep during the day.

In a striking indication that the end of night has consequences, the World Health Organizations International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded in 2007 that shift-work that involves circadian disruption is probably carcinogenic to humans. It is thought that this may have something to do with disruption to the production of the hormone melatonin, but at the moment, this is little more than a guess. It should come as no surprise that the human body has a deep biological connection to the earths diurnal rhythm.

The World Health Organizations International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded that shift-work that involves circadian disruption is probably carcinogenic to humans.

One of a growing number of local and national organizations concerned about the loss of darkness in America is the National Park Service. This agency has created a night sky team to raise awareness of the importance of darkness as a new type of resource, pointing out with impeccable logic and federally approved rhythm that half the park happens after dark. In 2006, the Park Service committed itself to preserve the natural lightscapes of parks, which it described in ethical language as resources and values that exist in the absence of human-caused light. Artificial light is now deemed an intrusion into the park ecosystem, suggesting that the distinction between what is artificial and what is natural is not yet completely moot.

Astronomers too are obviously miffed. Light pollution from cities is making optimal conditions for star gazing harder and harder to find. This is not only the concern of a few professionals with big budgets. Astronomy may be one of the most widely enjoyed arts on the face of the planet, ranging in its practitioners from Ph.D. scientists with multi-million-dollar telescopes to five-year-old children trying not to topple to the ground while craning their necks upward to wonder at the night sky. Seeing the moon and the stars above is one of the most orienting of human experiences, yet it was recently determined that more than a third of the worlds population can no longer see the Milky Way due to the presence of light pollution.

There may be no reason to lament the urban path we have taken given its many positive contributions to our humanity. But there is no doubt it is a path causing an unstoppable shift in who we, as well as the species that like to live alongside us, essentially are. After all, If we never see the Milky Way, asks Bogard (quoting science writer and poet William Fox), how will we know our place in the universe?

Christopher Preston is professor of philosophy at the University of Montana in Missoula, and the author of, among other books, The Synthetic Age, from which this article is adapted.

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The Evolutionary Power of Cities and Light - The MIT Press Reader

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You know in a bookstore there are always gift books of glossy photos with titles like Barack Obama Through The Years and Kate Middleton: From Diapers To Duchess or things like that? Well, this is kind of like that, but funnier, more endearing, and instead of photos, its a TikTok whiz doing impressions in wigs.

TikTok user Maris Jones, a director and photographer, has filled her feed with, among other things, evolution videos: the evolution of the telephone, the TV, sharing media, jeans, sunglasses, you get the idea. But as a Beatles fan on Twitter pointed out, shes also done the Fab Four, and they are pretty great, honestly! Heres Paul:

The Hey Jude bit is especially good there. John:

Dont Let Me Down, indeed. George:

That cardboard sitar is very charming. And of course, Ringo:

Also very good. Overall, a very good effort! The head wiggles! The wigs! The also-evolving instruments! The mustaches, my god, the mustaches! Way to go, Maris Jones. And way to go, @BEATLESOUTSOLD, the Twitter account that pointed us Maris way, and which is also responsible for this piece of eternal wisdom:

Send Great Job, Internet tips to gji@theonion.com

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The evolution of The Beatles, as performed by a TikTok user and many wigs - The A.V. Club

In the past three decades, Australias HVAC industry has seen a quantum evolution, but according to University of Wollongong professor Paul Cooper, theres a real risk of a talent deficit looming in the near future.

Cooper was awarded the James Harrison Medal for Lifetime Achievement at this years AIRAH Awards, for his industry-leading research in the HVAC space and contribution to advancing sustainable building practice as one of the founders of the UoW Sustainable Buildings Research centre.

He told The Fifth Estate that when he first came to Australia 30 years ago from the UK, the whole idea of energy-efficiency and emissions reduction wasnt on the radar.

There were no building code energy efficiency provisions for Australian housing until the early 2000s, for a start.

But in the past decade these ideas have become mainstream. Weve seen advances in technologies such as advanced building management systems that decrease energy consumption, and government policies such as mandatory disclosure and tools such as NABERS have led the commercial property sector to lift its game.

HVAC has become a very innovative field, and this has been attracting increasing numbers of the best and brightest graduates. Technologies in the areas of controls and automation are proving exciting for PhD and post-graduate students and researchers, and also creating alignments with other sectors such as advanced manufacturing.

However, Cooper says that without the right encouragement for the current primary school and high school cohorts, in five to 10 years that flow of talent could slow to a trickle.

TAFE is also an important part of the picture. The SBRC has been collaborating with TAFE since the outset, and creating partnerships with industry, students and institutions that are mutually beneficial.

Students get to see the products and practices experienced industry tradespeople bring to projects such as the award-winning Desert Rose and Illawarra Flame homes. Industry gets to leverage the latest research.

The two homes and the SBRC have also been a vehicle for sharing ideas about improving energy efficiency with the general public.

We have [also] trained a lot of very capable young people.

There is increasing integration between HVAC and other elements of the built environment, he explains.

One of the really heartening changes in recent years has been a more holistic approach to design, delivery, commissioning, operation and maintenance of buildings.

Cross-disciplinary research work is also extending into areas such as the impact of indoor environment quality on older people and people with dementia.

More great leaps lie ahead, he says..

The advent of cheaper renewable energy systems has really driven the start of a revolution of thinking about power use and engineering for optimisation of the grid.

A building is no longer an isolated block with HVAC keeping the temperature comfortable.

The SBRC has also contributed to significant industry shifts, such as undertaking the modelling for ASBECs net zero trajectory and future changes to the National Construction Code to align with the net zero ambition.

Its been a short trajectory and steep curve for the sector in terms of impact, Cooper says.

He says the single most important challenge for the industry is recruiting capable people.

Without significant numbers of the best and brightest undertaking the right learning during primary and high school, there could be a shortage of new entrants into the appropriate tertiary study pathways.

The key according to Cooper is to help young people see the exciting possibilities of the sector, and how worthwhile it is. Older workers also have immense value, as they hold an immense store of knowledge.

They have such an important role to play in mentoring, Cooper says.

The net zero transition and the new technologies such as advanced BMS systems are all going to need people to design, research, install and operate the HVAC of the future.

The future is bright so long as we engage the best and brightest young people.

Tags: AIRAH, energy efficiency, HVAC, Paul Cooper, sustainable buildings, university of wollongong

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HVAC's evolution and why it needs to look to the next generation - The Fifth Estate