Vic
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I’ll just repost this piece for no reason at all, and mention once again that if I walked away from an account with a half million followers I’m betting you can too.
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Yes, I know the social media saying. “This isn’t an airport. You don’t need to announce your departure.” And yet, I’m announcing my departure — from Twitter. And since a lot of you got to know me and ...
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July 23, 2024 at 10:14 PM
I’ll just repost this piece for no reason at all, and mention once again that if I walked away from an account with a half million followers I’m betting you can too.
kevinmkruse.substack.com/p/so-long-an...
kevinmkruse.substack.com/p/so-long-an...
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We can focus on all the people doing wrong but let’s also celebrate the people doing right, even when it makes them an outcast
July 24, 2024 at 7:13 PM
We can focus on all the people doing wrong but let’s also celebrate the people doing right, even when it makes them an outcast
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I just managed to snap a photo of this swallowtail butterfly on a zinnia before it fluttered away! 🌱
July 24, 2024 at 4:21 PM
I just managed to snap a photo of this swallowtail butterfly on a zinnia before it fluttered away! 🌱
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Las propiedades teóricas de los cuasicristales de einstein son similares a las del grafeno con defectos francis.naukas.com/2024/07/24/l...
Las propiedades teóricas de los cuasicristales de einstein son similares a las del grafeno con defectos - La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
El año pasado fue noticia (LCMF, 15 abr 2023) la solución al problema de einstein, el teselado aperiódico del plano con una sola pieza (ein Stein). Aunque para recubrir todo […]
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July 24, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Las propiedades teóricas de los cuasicristales de einstein son similares a las del grafeno con defectos francis.naukas.com/2024/07/24/l...
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The C-value paradox:
The Japanese canopy plant (Paris japonica) has a genome 50 TIMES LARGER than a human (150 billion base pairs to our 3.3 billion base pairs).
If all DNA is functional, why does a plant in Japan's alpine region need 50 times more of it than you?
(📷:alpsdake, wikimedia)
The Japanese canopy plant (Paris japonica) has a genome 50 TIMES LARGER than a human (150 billion base pairs to our 3.3 billion base pairs).
If all DNA is functional, why does a plant in Japan's alpine region need 50 times more of it than you?
(📷:alpsdake, wikimedia)
April 18, 2024 at 12:03 PM
The C-value paradox:
The Japanese canopy plant (Paris japonica) has a genome 50 TIMES LARGER than a human (150 billion base pairs to our 3.3 billion base pairs).
If all DNA is functional, why does a plant in Japan's alpine region need 50 times more of it than you?
(📷:alpsdake, wikimedia)
The Japanese canopy plant (Paris japonica) has a genome 50 TIMES LARGER than a human (150 billion base pairs to our 3.3 billion base pairs).
If all DNA is functional, why does a plant in Japan's alpine region need 50 times more of it than you?
(📷:alpsdake, wikimedia)
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The giraffe weevil (Trachelophorus giraffa) is native to the forests of Madagascar.
They show a strong sexual dimorphism: males (left) have elongated necks compared to females (right). This long neck is used in mating displays and challenging other males.
They show a strong sexual dimorphism: males (left) have elongated necks compared to females (right). This long neck is used in mating displays and challenging other males.
April 16, 2024 at 11:27 AM
The giraffe weevil (Trachelophorus giraffa) is native to the forests of Madagascar.
They show a strong sexual dimorphism: males (left) have elongated necks compared to females (right). This long neck is used in mating displays and challenging other males.
They show a strong sexual dimorphism: males (left) have elongated necks compared to females (right). This long neck is used in mating displays and challenging other males.
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If you weren't alive in the 80s, it is hard to explain just what a massively earthshattering moment this is, now I know what it felt like to hear that,smallpox was preventable in real-time
April 14, 2024 at 10:16 PM
If you weren't alive in the 80s, it is hard to explain just what a massively earthshattering moment this is, now I know what it felt like to hear that,smallpox was preventable in real-time
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Bats are angels to mice. 🦇
(🧑🎨: Pleumier)
(🧑🎨: Pleumier)
March 30, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Bats are angels to mice. 🦇
(🧑🎨: Pleumier)
(🧑🎨: Pleumier)
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I wrote a little essay about what birding has done for me in the very short time since I became a birder.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/30/o...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/30/o...
Opinion | When I Became a Birder, Almost Everything Else Fell Into Place
To find the birds, you have to know them.
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March 30, 2024 at 2:21 PM
I wrote a little essay about what birding has done for me in the very short time since I became a birder.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/30/o...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/30/o...
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Reading about how, when the European countries where Jews lived forced them to adopt formal surnames, it was fashionable to take names combining pretty words like “roses” and “green” and “gold” with nature terms like “leaf” and “flower”and “field”: hence Rosenbaum, Rosenberg, Greenstein, Greenfeld
March 30, 2024 at 2:00 AM
Reading about how, when the European countries where Jews lived forced them to adopt formal surnames, it was fashionable to take names combining pretty words like “roses” and “green” and “gold” with nature terms like “leaf” and “flower”and “field”: hence Rosenbaum, Rosenberg, Greenstein, Greenfeld
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It’s so funny how every study shows that ice cream is good for you but this makes scientists mad so they don’t talk about it
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March 26, 2024 at 5:36 PM
It’s so funny how every study shows that ice cream is good for you but this makes scientists mad so they don’t talk about it
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Very funny, Linda, now open the damn window. Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.
March 27, 2024 at 12:17 AM
Very funny, Linda, now open the damn window. Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.
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Un final feliz para un domingo lluvioso. Molly ya está a salvo y segura! Qué bien sientan estas noticias locales, te hacen tener un poco de fe en lis seres humanos, no creéis? 💪🤗👍
Final feliz en Pontevedra: el alemán de 76 años que buscaba a su perra la encuentra tras buscarla unas noventa personas
El despliegue para dar con Molly fue enorme, con voluntarios recorriendo el monte con grabaciones de voz: «¡No podemos parar de llorar!», dicen algunos de ellos
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March 10, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Un final feliz para un domingo lluvioso. Molly ya está a salvo y segura! Qué bien sientan estas noticias locales, te hacen tener un poco de fe en lis seres humanos, no creéis? 💪🤗👍
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"Disentangling Semantic and Prosodic Features of English Poetry," authored by @tedunderwood.me and me, is available as an open-access publication in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities: doi.org/10.1093/llc/.... We classified 30k+ English poems to study the distinction between genre and form. (1/6)
Disentangling semantic and prosodic features of English poetry
Abstract. The distinction between genre and form is still contested in literary studies. While scholars associated with the New Formalism are criticized for per
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March 1, 2024 at 4:07 AM
"Disentangling Semantic and Prosodic Features of English Poetry," authored by @tedunderwood.me and me, is available as an open-access publication in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities: doi.org/10.1093/llc/.... We classified 30k+ English poems to study the distinction between genre and form. (1/6)
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I'm visiting Vienna's astronomy department for a few days this week. Their observatory is SO pretty!
(I forgot to take a picture of the outside but will. It's a gorgeous building!) 🔭
(I forgot to take a picture of the outside but will. It's a gorgeous building!) 🔭
March 1, 2024 at 12:46 PM
I'm visiting Vienna's astronomy department for a few days this week. Their observatory is SO pretty!
(I forgot to take a picture of the outside but will. It's a gorgeous building!) 🔭
(I forgot to take a picture of the outside but will. It's a gorgeous building!) 🔭
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In 1960, David Latimer planted a garden inside of a bottle and sealed it shut. He opened the bottle and watered the plant in 1972 and sealed it for good. It has been a self sustaining ecosystem for 60 years.
December 23, 2023 at 4:19 PM
In 1960, David Latimer planted a garden inside of a bottle and sealed it shut. He opened the bottle and watered the plant in 1972 and sealed it for good. It has been a self sustaining ecosystem for 60 years.
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Nacreous clouds from this morning. 24th December 2023. 🧪
December 24, 2023 at 7:42 PM
Nacreous clouds from this morning. 24th December 2023. 🧪
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December 24, 2023 at 11:15 PM
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The Natural History Museum, London, established in 1881.
December 20, 2023 at 12:52 PM
The Natural History Museum, London, established in 1881.
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Female House Finch
Some berries are just worth getting...
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Some berries are just worth getting...
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December 16, 2023 at 4:19 PM
Female House Finch
Some berries are just worth getting...
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Some berries are just worth getting...
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