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Howard Lee
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Geologist and Science Writer: If you want to see what climate change can do to the planet just look at Earth's past!
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Country road, take me home...
Suffolk, England
A wet country lane stretches away to the horizon up a low hill, flanked by trees in the foreground, bright green crops in the distance. A blue sky is streaked by bright clouds.
October 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Our local turkeys joining in the #NoKings protest, showing us what they think of the current Republican administration 🚫👑
4 male turkeys on a lawn with tails raised, pointing their rear ends towards the camera.
October 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Glassy skin on a rope of pahoehoe basalt lava ⚒️
A shiny glassy skin on a rope of solidified pahoehoe basalt lava glistening blues and rust hues, silvery and dark brown.
October 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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"Geological HOWLERS Boners & Bloomers" Edited by W. D. Ian Rolfe, GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GLASGOW 1980 ISBN 0 04 550032 0
Photo of the cover of a booklet titled "Geological HOWLERS Boners & Bloomers" Edited by W. D. Ian Rolfe, GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GLASGOW
October 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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English country path, Suffolk, UK
A grassy path with som leaf litter stretches ahead beneath branches of old English oak trees. Sunlight makes the grass glow bright green in the distance.
October 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Baked clay 2 ways: Suffolk UK
A red brick chimney joins into weathered red clay roof tiles backed by blue sky
October 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Can't argue with that.
Two Friends Chocolates, Boxborough, Massachusetts 🦖🦕⚒️ (really outstanding handmade chocolate truffles)
Photo of a sign outside Two Friends Chocolates, Boxborough Massachusetts. Sign reads "Chocolate is vital for our survival. Dinosaurs didn't have chocolate and look what happened to them...
September 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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September 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Tidal flats, Cape Cod, yesterday morning.
Tidal flats, Cape Cod. Flattish ripples run parallel away from the camera, converging into the distance. Water lies between them reflecting a light blue cloudy sky.
September 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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A bit of a theme this weekend.
Both @economist.com & @nytimes.com seem to be doing the equivalent of knocking on the Democratic Party door, saying: "Hello? Anyone home? Hello?"
September 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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But it was their JOB to be prepared! It's the essence of the job of being a politician to anticipate things and be prepared for them. In industry, a leadership team so sorely lacking in leadership would have been fired long ago!
Photo of newsprint: "If you had forced me to choose, I would have said Schumer was probably right. It wasn’t the time for a shutdown — in part because Democrats weren’t prepared to win one."
September 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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#PrayersForLiberty
A crowd of protesters seated & standing in front of the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church in Arlington, MA A crowd of protesters gathered around singers in front of the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church in Arlington, MA
September 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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#PrayersForLiberty
A woman pastor reading a prayer. She stands under "The Embrace" bronze sculpture. An icon decorated with flowers is in the foreground. A crowd of protesters gathered around The Embrace sculpture on Boston Common A crowd of protesters gathered around The Embrace sculpture on Boston Common
September 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Just marched the 12 1/2 miles from Lexington to Boston Common for the defense of democracy. The route is the reverse of the one Paul Revere took in the revolutionary war.
A crowd of protesters gathered around "The Embrace" bronze statue on Boston Common
September 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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On a recent trip to Canada, patriotism was evident in many ways. Yard signs, banners, an even scratched-out "Americano" replaced by "Canadiano" in coffee shops. I'm told this is in response to threats from the USA 👇
A yard sign in a flower bed with a brick wall behind. Sign reads: "Canada Proud" A banner with a red Canadian maple leaf symbol above the words "PROUDLY CANADIAN" above a realistic image of a bison
August 31, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Canadian scene 🇨🇦
Photo of a steeply pitched roof with herring-bone dark faux timbers. The last evening sun catches the roof against a pale blue sky. A jet flies in the distance.
August 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Reason Over Passion - discuss.
(Joyce Wieland, Art Gallery of Ontario)
Quilt hanging with stuffed multicolored letters saying: "reason over passion" by Joyce Wieland, Art Gallery of Ontario
August 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Toronto vibe
Photo of an art installation with the ❤️ symbol followed by "LOVE." The heart & each letter is made up of hundreds of multicolored padlocks. The installation is mounted on a wood frame in front of a brick wall which has 6 small arches windows in a row.
August 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Here's a photo I took in the Eram garden in Shiraz some years ago. Eram means "paradise."
Photo of 2 women sitting on a bench surrounded by trees and plant beds. A sign reads "place of sitting." Bagh-e-Eram, Shiraz. Photo by me
August 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Unravelling the complex record of magma flow and solidification in sills ⚒️🌋
www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10....
Fig. 10. From Williams et al: Schematic diagram showing the evolution of the system from initial magma propagation (a), magma finger inflation (b) and the formation of cooling joints (c). (ai, bi, ci) Schematics of the evolving microstructures observed during each process. The dashed box indicates the location in a magma finger where the microstructures were observed.
August 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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What does this sign warn of (wrong answers only)?
Photo of the top portion of a sign. Text at the top with orange background reads ! CAUTION. Graphic below text is black on white background. A human shape, possibly a child, appears to be in mid air beside an irregular triangular shape. Text not shown warned of steep cliffs.
August 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Rhyming Geology
Block of conglomerate with cobbles interbedded with coarse sandstone likely ancient beach deposit. Block is on Newport Beach, RI
August 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Smoke on the water...
Gray haze from Canadian wildfires over the Sudbury River, Massachusetts, today
A wide, calm river stretches from foreground to the distance. Riverbanks are densely wooded as is the distant shore. The sky is a light gray haze from Canadian wildfires.
August 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Frequency plot of the Magnitude 8.7 Kamchatka earthquake waves arriving in Massachusetts recorded on my Raspberry Shake seismometer
Screenshot from a Raspberry Shake seismometer in Massachusetts recording of the Magnitude 8.7 earthquake off Kamchatka today. Y-axis is frequency x-axis is time. Bright yellow and orange show the low frequency seismic waves.
July 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Slab tearing along a subducted oceanic plate joint beneath the Alaska Peninsula ⚒️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Figure 4 from Sassard et al. Schematic 3D diagram illustrating the interpreted slab tearing along a subducted oceanic plate joint beneath the Alaska Peninsula. The orange, blue and green shaded slab segments are portions of the Kula plate from the Kula–Pacific (KP), Kula–Resurrection (KR), and Kula–Farallon (KF) spreading centres. The cyan translucent surface shows the partially torn slab section along the oceanic joint between the KP and KR spreading centres. The red arrows are the inferred asthenospheric flows below the subducting slab and through the slab window downdip of the weakened slab section. The diagram is not to scale.
July 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM