PaulT @P3f@social.cleverlibre.org

1830s virtual reality, a so called tunnel book or pop-up book.

#vr #oldtech

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The Best Photos From the 2023 Close-Up Photographer of the Year Contest

These are fantastic photos. I love close up and macro photography. Even when I shoot nudes, I always fit in a few close up shots that makes viewers go, "What the heck am I looking at?"

https://petapixel.com/2024/01/09/the-best-photos-from-the-2023-close-up-photographer-of-the-year-contest/

Hey francophones - is this how you would say this in actual speech?

In *Blood In the Machine,* @bcmerchant delivers the definitive history of the #Luddites, and the clearest analysis of the automator's playbook, where "entrepreneurs'" lawless extraction from workers is called "innovation" and "inevitable":

https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/brian-merchant/blood-in-the-machine/9780316487740/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/26/enochs-hammer/#thats-fronkonsteen

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Some of the accounts I follow #OnHere for climate information and other cool science, including transportation: #FF #FollowFriday
@ZLabe
@davidho
@kathhayhoe
@breadandcircuses
@virome_girl
@coralsncaves
@BrentToderian
@Ruth_Mottram
@climatebrad
@GrrlScientist
@petergleick
@capntransit
@TheConversationClimate
@Kyt_Thatsme
@atthenius
@PoLaRobs
@aida
@WeatherGoddess

@TousLesMuscs @taylorlorenz

Apple and HBO for starters
https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/right-wing-misinformers-and-bad-actors-have-already-earned-tens-thousands-dollars-under

This is awesome: cobalt comes from thermonuclear supernovae and core-collapse supernovae. Where painters' favorite pigments come from: https://scientificamerican.com/article/some-of-earths-most-famous-art-started-with-stardust/

Vous saviez qu’une initiative citoyenne européenne avait été lancée pour relier toutes les capitales européennes par train grande vitesse ?

https://www.connect-capitals-hsr.eu/fr/

Non ? Et bien personne ne le sait. Elle a récolté jusqu’à présent… 258 signatures en France et 104 en Belgique.

Elle doit en récolté un million.

#Écologie 🌱 Ex-raffinerie Petroplus: les nouveaux couacs de Valgo épinglés par les services de l’État

Malgré les procédures judiciaires et les intimidations, notre partenaire #LePoulpe poursuit son travail d’enquête à propos de l’entreprise #Valgo, spécialiste de la #dé#pollution, au sujet de la réhabilitation de l’ex-raffinerie #Petroplus. Au menu, les mauvais résultats d’un contrôle inopiné.

› https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/ecologie/150623/ex-raffinerie-petroplus-les-nouveaux-couacs-de-valgo-epingles-par-les-services-de-l-etat

I wrote about how cheetahs and blue whales can help us sift through the junk of our genome to find the jewels. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/science/human-dna-genomes.html

Evarchia, Schönbuch, BaWü, DE, 2022.

#nature #wildlife #animal #spiders #photography #germany #macro #makro #makrofotografie #macrophotography #jumpingspider #evarchia #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #natur #salticidae #salticidsaturday

Ever heard the story of how the discovery of extremophiles also inadvertently led to the invention of PCR?

It's so much fun

It really illustrates two of my favorite principles in life:

1) the value of following an obsessive curiosity, for, like, *years*

2) the way big ideas come out the collision of two seemingly unconnected domains

My essay, for Medium subscribers: https://medium.com/@clivethompson/the-power-of-indulging-your-weird-offbeat-obsessions-77c12f10e69f

If you don't subscribe, here's a "friend" link: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-power-of-indulging-your-weird-offbeat-obsessions-77c12f10e69f?sk=5194c0612f106bec7f4d28d143625f98

Perhaps the most photogenic bird in the Netherlands... That is, if it is in the Netherlands.
This is the #BohemianWaxwing a bird that spent most of it's time up North... In Scandinavia, Northern Russia etc. During the Winter season they eat preferably berries but if there aren’t enough berries for some reason... They’ll fly south to us... And one thing is certain... They love our berries as well😜
#birds #birdphotography #birdsofthefediverse #nature #wildlife #BombycillaGarrulus

Happy Winter Solstice!

Here is a quick study of Cryolophosaurus, a crested theropod from the early Jurassic of Antarctica, which although MUCH warmer than today it was still quite a cool place back then

#dinosaur #cryolophosaurus #paleoart #art #FediArt #DigitalArt #winter #wintersolstice

Do you think that if you've seen one woodlouse then you've seen them all? I certainly used to, but then I started doing macrophotography and a whole new world of woodlice opened up to me!

Thanks to my macrophotography I even found a new woodlouse species to England! A report on that here: https://www.bmig.org.uk/sites/www.bmig.org.uk/files/bulletin/BullBMIG33-2021p46-51_Ashwood_M-celticus.pdf

#Woodlouse #SoilBiodiversity #Isopod #Isopoda #SoilFauna #Arthropod #WorldBeneathYourFeet #MacroPhotography

Why do some people have persistent loss of smell post-Covid?
A biopsy-based study shows durable T-cell mediated inflammation long after the virus is cleared from tissue

https://science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.add0484

Idée de Newtonmass écologique et minimaliste : le cadeau réutilisable !

https://ploum.net/le-cadeau-reutilisable/

#ForeverGift