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Karen Yip
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Geo! Enviro! Oceans! weather! STEM! 2YC! wildflowers!
Anti gun violence, pro gun safety.
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holy moly I'm so frustrated.
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Snail
Not teeny
Rosy wolfsnail. A snail held in black garden glove. A pale oatmeal colored snail whose shell is pointy like a skinny football.The spiral points toward top of image, snail’s foot toward bottom.
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Houston’s dew point started dropping a couple hours ago with arrival of north wind. Forecast shows dew point in the teens tomorrow! 😲
Screen clip of the hourly weather details observed at IAH airport. Highlighted are wind data for ~4am to 7am showing 18mph wind & 25mph gusts after hours of calm air. Also dew point was 66 at 3am. By 7am it was down to 37.9.
November 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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good thing I still haven't been inside of a Target in months. I have no desire to have that many staff approach me as I move through any store. It's like a whole new reason to boycott.
November 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Will you be posting on instagram about the expedition? The last few expeditions have had great engagement via Instagram
November 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Yes yes. The pattern yesterday was patchy. Not sure if downtown was foggy but I went through a couple thick patches on commute
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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it was super foggy in our Houston neighborhood this morning too. Signs of fall!
November 7, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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309 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Ruby:
- The red/pink variety of corundum
- Its colour is caused by chromium
- Heat treatment can improve its colour
- 9 on the Mohs hardness scale
- Its name comes from the Latin word "ruber" (red) #minerals
A corundum (var. ruby) crystal mounted on a metal stem like a little lollipop. It has an elongate bipyramidal shape - like a long tube with tapered ends - and is slightly translucent and cherry red in colour. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London. A hexagonal corundum (variety ruby) prism, opaque and reddish-pink in colour. From Sanarka River, Russia. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London. A pale pink corundum (variety ruby) prism embedded in white dolomite. From Campolungo, Switzerland. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.
November 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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👏👏👏
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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I took Structural Geology, a tectonics seminar, and Geology of North America with Ed Beutner. I appreciate how worked my brain felt after his exams.
November 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM