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Sometimes abandonment is the best form of heritage retention.
August 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Sometimes abandonment is the best form of heritage retention.
Should a man stand when phoning a woman?
March 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Should a man stand when phoning a woman?
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Gonna drop a few teasers for #AGU24. Mark your calendars!
Title: It’s not just Taylor Swift: Concert seismology and the Battle of the Bands
Tuesday, 10:41-10:44 (don't be late)
Figure: seismic data for 8 concerts in Seattle. Yellow = all seismic energy (music + crowd). Purple = music only.
Title: It’s not just Taylor Swift: Concert seismology and the Battle of the Bands
Tuesday, 10:41-10:44 (don't be late)
Figure: seismic data for 8 concerts in Seattle. Yellow = all seismic energy (music + crowd). Purple = music only.
December 2, 2024 at 6:21 AM
Gonna drop a few teasers for #AGU24. Mark your calendars!
Title: It’s not just Taylor Swift: Concert seismology and the Battle of the Bands
Tuesday, 10:41-10:44 (don't be late)
Figure: seismic data for 8 concerts in Seattle. Yellow = all seismic energy (music + crowd). Purple = music only.
Title: It’s not just Taylor Swift: Concert seismology and the Battle of the Bands
Tuesday, 10:41-10:44 (don't be late)
Figure: seismic data for 8 concerts in Seattle. Yellow = all seismic energy (music + crowd). Purple = music only.
You can’t follow rainbows, they follow you.
March 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
You can’t follow rainbows, they follow you.
Chitons are nature’s way of bedazzling things, like rocks.
March 8, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Chitons are nature’s way of bedazzling things, like rocks.
One of the best ways to diet is not to eat while watching TV a.k.a. holding your phone on the toilet.
March 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
One of the best ways to diet is not to eat while watching TV a.k.a. holding your phone on the toilet.
Turn a map of Antarctica up anyway you like. I recommend the longitude that takes the shortest route home.
March 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Turn a map of Antarctica up anyway you like. I recommend the longitude that takes the shortest route home.
It was a Wednesday and so he knew toothbrushing would commence from the lower right quadrant.
March 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
It was a Wednesday and so he knew toothbrushing would commence from the lower right quadrant.
Noncompetitive gurgitator.
Add to your bio and let the fun begin.
Add to your bio and let the fun begin.
March 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Noncompetitive gurgitator.
Add to your bio and let the fun begin.
Add to your bio and let the fun begin.
Today I learnt beluga and narwhals can have babies together. Not to be confused with “they should have babies together”
March 4, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Today I learnt beluga and narwhals can have babies together. Not to be confused with “they should have babies together”
The creation of common names for all parts of nature is probably
the biggest low-cost change that environmentalists could implement.
the biggest low-cost change that environmentalists could implement.
February 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The creation of common names for all parts of nature is probably
the biggest low-cost change that environmentalists could implement.
the biggest low-cost change that environmentalists could implement.
What fate overtakes each wave as it breaks against the land? I
began to count, waiting for the seventh wave. How are we to know
which is the first and which the seventh?
How can we rationalise and
set to numbers pulsations of water that have been world without
end?
began to count, waiting for the seventh wave. How are we to know
which is the first and which the seventh?
How can we rationalise and
set to numbers pulsations of water that have been world without
end?
February 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
What fate overtakes each wave as it breaks against the land? I
began to count, waiting for the seventh wave. How are we to know
which is the first and which the seventh?
How can we rationalise and
set to numbers pulsations of water that have been world without
end?
began to count, waiting for the seventh wave. How are we to know
which is the first and which the seventh?
How can we rationalise and
set to numbers pulsations of water that have been world without
end?
Why aren’t mosquito net burkas a thing? My wife always gets terribly bitten whenever we’re outside but if she was wearing one of these, wouldn’t that solve the problem?
February 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Why aren’t mosquito net burkas a thing? My wife always gets terribly bitten whenever we’re outside but if she was wearing one of these, wouldn’t that solve the problem?
Even atheists like ritual.
February 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Even atheists like ritual.
bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz
International voting allowed.
International voting allowed.
New Zealand Bug of the Year
bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz
February 5, 2025 at 6:21 AM
bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz
International voting allowed.
International voting allowed.
The INNER edge of the Oort Cloud is estimated to begin around 2,000–5,000 AU. So it will take until around 10,000–20,000 years from now, that these probes (2 Voyagers, 2 Pioneers, New Horizons will truly enter the denser outer Oort Cloud.
January 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The INNER edge of the Oort Cloud is estimated to begin around 2,000–5,000 AU. So it will take until around 10,000–20,000 years from now, that these probes (2 Voyagers, 2 Pioneers, New Horizons will truly enter the denser outer Oort Cloud.
Our only probes with solar escape velocity estimated positions by 2050:
•Voyager 1: ~27,000 million km (~180 AU) from the Sun
•Voyager 2: ~22,000 million km (~145 AU)
•Pioneer 10: ~25,000 million km (~167 AU)
•Pioneer 11: ~20,000 million km (~133 AU)
•New Horizons: ~10,000 million km (~67 AU)
•Voyager 1: ~27,000 million km (~180 AU) from the Sun
•Voyager 2: ~22,000 million km (~145 AU)
•Pioneer 10: ~25,000 million km (~167 AU)
•Pioneer 11: ~20,000 million km (~133 AU)
•New Horizons: ~10,000 million km (~67 AU)
January 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Our only probes with solar escape velocity estimated positions by 2050:
•Voyager 1: ~27,000 million km (~180 AU) from the Sun
•Voyager 2: ~22,000 million km (~145 AU)
•Pioneer 10: ~25,000 million km (~167 AU)
•Pioneer 11: ~20,000 million km (~133 AU)
•New Horizons: ~10,000 million km (~67 AU)
•Voyager 1: ~27,000 million km (~180 AU) from the Sun
•Voyager 2: ~22,000 million km (~145 AU)
•Pioneer 10: ~25,000 million km (~167 AU)
•Pioneer 11: ~20,000 million km (~133 AU)
•New Horizons: ~10,000 million km (~67 AU)
It’s often said that history is written by the victors. The future, however, remains a perpetual battlefield of ideas
January 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
It’s often said that history is written by the victors. The future, however, remains a perpetual battlefield of ideas
within the 2020 lockdowns birdsongs regained lost qualities.
The white-crowned sparrows, for instance, extended their songs back down into lower frequencies which would normally be drowned out, and their songs became richer, fuller and more complex. It turned out that, the birds had been ‘shouting’.
The white-crowned sparrows, for instance, extended their songs back down into lower frequencies which would normally be drowned out, and their songs became richer, fuller and more complex. It turned out that, the birds had been ‘shouting’.
January 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
within the 2020 lockdowns birdsongs regained lost qualities.
The white-crowned sparrows, for instance, extended their songs back down into lower frequencies which would normally be drowned out, and their songs became richer, fuller and more complex. It turned out that, the birds had been ‘shouting’.
The white-crowned sparrows, for instance, extended their songs back down into lower frequencies which would normally be drowned out, and their songs became richer, fuller and more complex. It turned out that, the birds had been ‘shouting’.
An owl’s hearing does not decline with age because, like many other birds but unlike humans, the sensitive hair cells of the inner ear regenerate continuously.
#hearingloss #Owls
#hearingloss #Owls
January 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
An owl’s hearing does not decline with age because, like many other birds but unlike humans, the sensitive hair cells of the inner ear regenerate continuously.
#hearingloss #Owls
#hearingloss #Owls
My favourite ESL neologism in my family:
Hectangle - a 6 sided shape. But it could also describe the mess we are in in polite company.
Hectangle - a 6 sided shape. But it could also describe the mess we are in in polite company.
January 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
My favourite ESL neologism in my family:
Hectangle - a 6 sided shape. But it could also describe the mess we are in in polite company.
Hectangle - a 6 sided shape. But it could also describe the mess we are in in polite company.
Shifting baseline syndrome has been a feature in two books I’ve just read.
One of the personal measures is just the difference between windscreens bugs in the 70s and now. It would be interesting if we had ‘preserved’ windshields from junkyards that we could do an eDNA sampling sequence.
One of the personal measures is just the difference between windscreens bugs in the 70s and now. It would be interesting if we had ‘preserved’ windshields from junkyards that we could do an eDNA sampling sequence.
January 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Shifting baseline syndrome has been a feature in two books I’ve just read.
One of the personal measures is just the difference between windscreens bugs in the 70s and now. It would be interesting if we had ‘preserved’ windshields from junkyards that we could do an eDNA sampling sequence.
One of the personal measures is just the difference between windscreens bugs in the 70s and now. It would be interesting if we had ‘preserved’ windshields from junkyards that we could do an eDNA sampling sequence.
I realised today that New Zealand glow worms are larvae of flies specifically fungus gnats and therefore maggots. Being maggots we could also call New Zealand glow worms “Star maggots.”
January 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I realised today that New Zealand glow worms are larvae of flies specifically fungus gnats and therefore maggots. Being maggots we could also call New Zealand glow worms “Star maggots.”
Eyes are the windows out of the soul.
January 2, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Eyes are the windows out of the soul.