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Bewildereds Berner
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[i stole it all]

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I read once that a vine shouted this to a marble pyramid:

"Te stante virebo.

Ut virides edere, durat dum Pyramis, errant, Sic mihi te stabit stante, virente viror."

Flourish —despite it all.
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this skill parallels what discovered in some birds, that have specialised remote touch organs in the beak www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... : de Fouw et al. 2016
Structurally complex sea grass obstructs the sixth sense of a specialized avian molluscivore
Predators have evolved many different ways to detect hidden prey by using advanced sensory organs. However, in some environmental contexts sensory inf…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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we discovered remote touch in humans! a moving hand detects objects under the sand without touching them!
clip: youtu.be/6hpuLojesyQ?...
paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
team: @zhengqichen.bsky.social @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social #LorenzoJamone + me @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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If you'd like to play with a tiny ontology machine, all it takes is two lists of words from your app or site:

informationagnosia.com/class/machin...

Use the "load new" button
October 31, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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January 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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“Truth is powerful and it prevails.” — Sojourner Truth
October 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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I read once that a vine shouted this to a marble pyramid:

"Te stante virebo.

Ut virides edere, durat dum Pyramis, errant, Sic mihi te stabit stante, virente viror."

Flourish —despite it all.
January 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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July 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Aminé debuting a new pair of shoes that visually celebrate the library where he grew up, and asking fans to participate in a book drive to qualify for a giveaway of said shoes, is very cute.

www.oregonlive.com/living/2025/...
August 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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In the latest Future Knowledge #podcast, IN THROUGH THE SIDE DOOR, author & UI designer @ErinMalone.bsky.social joins designer Abby Covert to spotlight the women who shaped UX, from the dawn of desktop computing to today.

🎧 Listen & subscribe ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/in-...
August 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Slough, slew, and sluff.

Illuminating the sloughed truth of clarity.

oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/slough...
What is a slough?
A swamp or shallow lake system, usually a backwater to a larger body of water.
oceanservice.noaa.gov
August 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
July 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Owing to its precarious location and treacherous #offshore commute, #OregonCoast’s #tillamooklighthouse earned the name Terrible Tilly, and so it was until a 1934 storm hurled a boulder through its lens. Final logbook entry:

Through howling gale, thick fog and driving rain you have beamed your […]
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earth.law
October 23, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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● Teach them to be angry as hell at climate change denying politicians that will make a hellscape out of their future.
Heading to a summer camp? Keep kids safe from #heat while they spend time outdoors:

● Give them plenty of water.
● Dress them in loose, light-colored clothes.
● Teach them the signs of heat illness.

More: bit.ly/4gzNgvw
#HeatSafety #NIHHIS
May 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Interesting.

NOAA is a bureau of the newly McKinsey‘d Dept of Commerce or otherwise referred to as the 'Dept of Data' per the "IAS Panel 3 2023 “Information Advantages Across Warfare Domains and Dimensions”" discussion that I watched on YouTube (@16:40).
February 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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The US Global Change Research Program was established by Congress in 1990 as a collaboration among 15 federal agencies, including NOAA, under the Department of Commerce, and NASA to advance a whole government approach to climate change. As far as we have heard NOAA is doing the archiving.
June 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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today is World Bee Day. not to be confused with World Bidet
May 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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New research reveals that much of the spring runoff in the Western U.S. is not from recent snowmelt but from snow that fell 3–15 years ago. This challenges existing water models and has significant implications for water management.
#Hydrology
#Groundwater
#WaterResources
#ClimateScience
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Spring runoff is older than you think: Study reveals years-long underground journey
Growing communities and extensive agriculture throughout the Western United States rely on meltwater that spills out of snow-capped mountains every spring. The models for predicting the amount of this...
phys.org
May 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Claes Oldenburg was way ahead of his time.
April 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Anchor Bolts xkcd.com/3078
April 19, 2025 at 5:03 AM
For what it's worth, the crows outside are singing Psychostick "numbers."
April 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Oregon is completely free of drought and abnormal dryness for the first time since November 2019, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Some fun weather stats and what it actually means here: tinyurl.com/4r3rhbzt
March 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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I'm happy to announce version 4.0 of the PFAS statewide sampling dataset is available online!

Key updates: add'l state data and more detailed documentation of analytes

Sample data + metadata are available below - feel free to contact me for full version!
dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
dataverse.harvard.edu
March 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Our new Silent Spring Institute paper in Environmental Health Perspectives found that nearly a third of people in the U.S. have been exposed to unregulated contaminants in their drinking water that could impact their health.
ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/...
with @jahredwithanh.bsky.social
Socioeconomic Disparities in Exposures to PFAS and Other Unregulated Industrial Drinking Water Contaminants in US Public Water Systems | Environmental Health Perspectives | Vol. 133, No. 1
Background: Unregulated contaminants in drinking water, such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), can contribute to cumulative health risks, particularly in overburdened and less-advantaged ...
ehp.niehs.nih.gov
January 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM