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Paul Houle
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Software developer at a major research university. I live on a farm near Ithaca, NY. Into flower photography, sports photography, as well as stereograms and VR photography. Here to cultivate growth and resilience.
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Weedy field Off Rt 79 near Slaterville Springs

#photo #photography #summer #caroline #landscape #weeds #grass #upstateny
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Daisies white with purple spots in and out of focus

#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #daisies
November 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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The rather famous view up Libe Slope towards Uris Library with Willard Straight Hall unseen towards the right

#photo #photography #landscape #buildings #cornell #university #fall #architecture
November 20, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Strange concrete sculptures circa 1960 near that big cluster of trees in the Arboretum

#photo #photography #landscape #fall #fallcolor #cornell #arboretum #sculpture #art
November 20, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Cluster of trees by the pond in the middle of the Arboretum

#photo #photography #landscape #fall #fallcolor #cornell #arboretum #pond #water #trees
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Radiocarbon analysis of turfgrasses can help cities measure greenhouse gas emissions

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#turfgrass #carbon #co2 #isotopes #stableisotopes #cities #climatechange #plants #environment #sensors
Radiocarbon analysis of turfgrasses can help cities measure greenhouse gas emissions
Cities around the world are working to limit emissions of climate-warming greenhouse gases, but there have been few ways of measuring whether those gases are actually decreasing in any given municipal...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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✊🏽 Socialist Politics Can Break Through to Asian Immigrants

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#politics #nyc #mamdani #asians #immigrants #socialism #leftism
Socialist Politics Can Break Through to Asian Immigrants
Politicians have long used red-baiting to win Asian American votes, assuming an aversion to anything labeled socialist. But Zohran Mamdani’s primary triumph in Asian immigrant neighborhoods suggests t...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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💥 Bubble wrap bursts enable power-free acoustic testing

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#sensors #acoustics #pop #bubblewrap #testing #sound
Bubble wrap bursts enable power-free acoustic testing
Non-destructive testing allows engineers to evaluate the integrity of structures such as pipelines, tanks, bridges, and machinery without dismantling them. Conventional approaches rely on loudspeakers...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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🔫 Nintendo’s Messy Palworld Fight Takes An Unexpected Turn

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#games #videogames #law #lawsuit #ip #patents #palworld #nintendo #pokemon
US Patent Office Reexamining Controversial Pokemon Patent
The director of the U.S. patent office has pointed to examples of ‘prior art’ that might wreck Nintendo’s efforts to own certain mechanics related to summoning monsters
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November 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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🫧 Artificial muscles use ultrasound-activated microbubbles to move

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#machines #robots #muscles #ultrasound #technology #engineering
Artificial muscles use ultrasound-activated microbubbles to move
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed artificial muscles that contain microbubbles and can be controlled with ultrasound. In the future, these muscles could be deployed in technical and medical set...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Entrance to the Summerland Farm Preserve -- along the route the Fingerlakes trail takes from Rt 79 to the top of the overlooking hill to the south

#photo #photography #outdoors #forest #sign #fingerlakestrail #wideangle #9mm
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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𝑂𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑢𝑚 a.k.a. African Daisy seen in an annuals bed towards the end of the season

#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrollng #daisy #osteospermum
November 19, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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The hill across the valley from my farm

#photo #photography #fall #fallcolor #trees #472central #caroline #landscape
November 19, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Layers of forest understory and canopy in Shindagin Hollow State Forest

#photo #photography #fall #fallcolor #forest #trees #shindaginhollow
November 19, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Tree in front of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

#photo #photography #fall #fallcolor #cornell #artmuseym #trees #ithaca
November 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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🗾 The second life of Japan's net cafes

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#japan #business #internet #cafe #culture #thirdspace
The second life of Japan's net cafes
Once symbols of urban solitude, these spaces are finding new purpose as coworking hubs for a changing, wired generation.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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👎🏿 Americans Are Mostly United Against 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑

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#politics #supremecourt #money #fundraising #power #opinion #survey
Americans Are Mostly United Against Citizens United
When the Supreme Court issued the Citizens United decision, it allowed a torrent of unchecked dark money into political campaigning. Ordinary Americans of all political stripes have taken notice, and ...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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🌡️ Taking the moon's temperature with beeswax

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#moon #space #sensors #beeswax #geology #astronomy #rover
Taking the moon's temperature with beeswax
Sometimes space exploration doesn't go as planned. But even in failure, engineers can learn, adapt, and try again. One of the best ways to do that is to share the learning, and allow others to reprodu...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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😱 Fear is the Heart of All Bad Things

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#school #education #cars #transportation #politics #culture
Fear is the Heart of All Bad Things
when you choose to drive your kid to school instead of letting them walk or take the bus, you're endangering them
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November 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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😮‍💨 Research shows that improved home ventilation can ease asthma symptoms, advance public health

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#asthma #health #disease #buildings #ventilation #airquality #breathing #medicine
Research shows that improved home ventilation can ease asthma symptoms, advance public health
For millions of people living with asthma, even the air inside their homes can make breathing difficult. But researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington have shown that better ventilation syst...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Part of a series I did of The Paw upstairs with the 135mm

#photo #photography #cats #bigpaw #toadlily #animals #monochrome #monochromemonday #blackandwhite #bw #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Open field at the Summerland Farm preserve on top of a hill -- the Fingerlakes trail passes through here

#photo #photography #landscape #caroline #wideangle #monochrome #monochromemonday #blackandwhite #bw
November 18, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Zinnia by a brick wall near a school building in Newark Valley

#photo #photography #flowers #zinnia #bricks #bloomscrolling #monochrome #monochromemonday #blackandwhite #bw
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Bigpaw on the threshold of the kitchen in black and white

#photo #photography #cats #animals #monochrome #monochromemonday #bigpaw #toadlily
November 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Approach to Rockefeller Hall, the Physical Sciences Building and Baker Hall in the fall

#photo #photography #landscape #cornell #buildings #architecture #fall #fallcolor #monochrome #monochromemonday #bw #blackandwhite
November 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM