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Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym Nadar, was a photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloonist, and proponent of heavier-than-air flight.

In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs.

Photographic portraits by Nadar are held by many of the great national collections of photographs.

This is a portrait of a fun hairstyle "The Moon in the Man" shot by Nadar in France 1894.

© Historical Photographs

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If your main timeline on Mastodon is getting too crowded, you can use the Lists feature to split it into several smaller themed mini-timelines. You can then dip into a particular timeline when you want to see accounts on that topic.

More info on how to set up and use Lists at:

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Owls make almost no sounds, while in flight—even when they are tested in rooms that have dozens of microphones! That’s because their specialized feathers alter air turbulence and absorb noise, so much so that they can fly right above unsuspecting animals, without being noticed!

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Did you know that animals with smaller bodies and faster metabolisms, such as chipmunks and squirrels, actually see the world in slow motion?
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'Victims of Revolutions' in Paris, France

This yet eerie monument has a contentious origin story.#cemeteries #warhistory #monuments #section-Atlas

'Victims of Revolutions'

French sculptor Paul Moreau-Vauthier transformed the site of a 19th-century massacre into a haunting memorial.
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#section-Atlas #Monuments #WarHistory #cemeteries

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#idw #Pesticides have greater impacts on animals, plants, and microorganisms than previously thought

Pesticides are used primarily in #agriculture to control pests. However, they can also harm many beneficial animal, plant and fungal species that are not the target of the control. An international meta analysis, including contributions from the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of #Biodiversity Change (LIB), 1/2

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#goodnews #goodearth #environment #London #UK

Eco-Funerals Now Feature World’s First ‘Living Coffin’ Made Out of Mushrooms

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Eco-Funerals Now Feature ‘World’s First Living Coffin’ Made Out of Mushrooms

Funeral directors in the UK can now bury you in the ‘world's first living coffin’, which is made out of mushrooms and hemp.
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#london #environment #goodnews #uk #goodearth

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#Introduction

We are PeARS, a friendly project dedicated to the development of a fully open source and decentralised #Web #search #engine.

How does it work? Every instance of PeARS can be considered a mini search engine for a single topic of interest, which is populated and curated by people like you. One beautiful day, when enough instances are alive, they will come together to provide a generalised Web search solution. Owned by you.

Interested? Come and help us! Say hello here or on GitHub.

#introduction #web #search #engine
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World's Fastest Blindfolded Speedrunner Shows How He Moves Through Games Without the Benefit of Sight laughingsquid.com/worlds-faste…

World's Fastest Blindfolded Speedrunner Shows How He Moves Through Games Without the Benefit of Sight

Great Big Story spoke with Bubzia, the world's fastest blindfolded speedrunner who has conquered every Super Mario 64 game.
Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)

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Down To Earth Magazine: Earth enters dangerous new climate era: Studies suggest Paris Agreement warming threshold breached already…

Almost every month in recent years has individually exceeded 1.5°C anomaly, signalling long-term climate shift... #temperatures #globalwarming #climatechange #C3S #parisagreement #IPCC

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Down To Earth Magazine: Earth enters dangerous new climate era: Studies suggest Paris Agreement warming threshold breached already…

Almost every month in recent years has individually exceeded 1.5°C anomaly, signalling long-term climate shift… #temperatures #globalwarming #climatechange #C3S #parisagreement #IPCC
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🏭 Coal gasification, an old technology, is quietly expanding across Asia

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Coal gasification, an old technology, is quietly expanding across Asia

In Nagasaki prefecture, on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, J-Power, the operator of the aging Matsushima coal-fired power plant, has an idea to keep the unit operating despite the country’s no-coal pledge: gasification.
Isabel Esterman (Conservation news)
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First patient in UK tests new treatment for loss of sense of smell theguardian.com/science/2025/f… #Infectiousdiseases #Medicalresearch #Coronavirus #LongCovid #Science #UKnews #Health

First patient in UK tests new treatment for loss of sense of smell

Chrissi Kelly, who says anosmia is a ‘like a bereavement’, is trialling a simple procedure that could help those who lost sense of smell during Covid or other viral infections
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It’s time to rethink boredom, procrastination and regret theguardian.com/science/2025/f… #Health&wellbeing #Lifeandstyle #Psychology

It’s time to rethink boredom, procrastination and regret

That’s the way to fulfil your goals and have fun in life, writes Simon May
Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
#psychology #health #lifeandstyle

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🎨 #BLOG:

Incorporating education in the #arts into the curriculum can benefit all students, and it can have some secondary benefits, such as improving student achievement.

#CoffeeForTheArts #Coffee #Tea #Artist

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WHY WE SHOULD ALL CARE ABOUT THE DECLINE OF THE ARTS IN SCHOOLS

In recent years, many school districts have had to make the difficult decision to cut art programs such as drama, music, visual arts, photography, and so on, due to budget cuts and based upon state/national academic priorities.
Robert Casillas (Coffee For The Arts)
#blog #Coffee #artist #arts #tea #coffeeforthearts

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#QuizOfTheDay: A #Hydroelectric dam harnesses the #Energy of falling water to generate #Electricity.

What is the largest hydroelectric dam in the world by installed capacity?

A. Tarbela Dam, Pakistan
B. Three Gorges Dam, China
C. Fort Peck Dam, USA
D. Atatürk Dam,Turkey

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Den Spauwer in Brussels, Belgium

Known as "The Spewer," this bizarre fountain has an even stranger urban legend behind it.#urbanlegends #legends #statues #fountains #section-Atlas

Den Spauwer

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🍶 Japanese food makers step in to preserve sake breweries' legacy

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Japanese food makers step in to preserve sake breweries' legacy

The initiatives by food companies coincide with a growing recognition of traditional sake-making techniques.
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British professor makes ‘thrilling’ breakthrough for cancer that killed his mother theguardian.com/science/2025/f… #Medicalresearch #Cancerresearch #Science #Society #Cancer #Health

British professor makes ‘thrilling’ breakthrough for cancer that killed his mother

Paul Workman has researched untreatable chordoma for years. Now new technology points towards to a potential drug to beat it
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Golden-breasted Starling

A slim, gorgeous long-tailed starling of dry country. Iridescent green, purple, and blue decorate the upperparts, and the belly is yellow. There is a dark mask and a pale eye. The flight is weak, with the long, thin tail flapping behind. Found in dry woodland, thorn savanna, and thorn scrub, usually in small flocks. Generally shy, but can become tame in some lodges and picnic areas.

Link: ebird.org/species/gobsta5
Photo Location: Kenya

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How would a small asteroid impact change life on Earth? – Earth.com…

Throughout history, Earth has faced cataclysmic events that reshaped its climate and ecosystems. Some of these events were triggered by asteroid impacts, leaving long-lasting effects on both land and sea... #asteroid #earth #space

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Italian nobrewoman Vittoria Accoramboni was born #OTD in 1557.

Her story formed the basis of Webster's drama, The Tragedy of Paolo Giordano Ursini (1612), and of Ludwig Tieck's novel, Vittoria Accoramboni (1840); it is told more accurately in D. Gnoli's volume, Vittoria Accoramboni (Florence, 1870), and an excellent sketch of her life is given in Countess E. Martinengo-Cesaresco's Lombard Studies (London, 1902).

Vittoria Accoramboni by Stendhal at PG
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#books #literature

Vittoria Accoramboni by Stendhal

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"... the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts; not their diminution or destruction."

Galileo was born #OTD in 1564. One of the key figures of the scientific revolution, his name is associated with important contributions in physics & astronomy. Also of primary importance was his role in the astronomical revolution, with support for the heliocentric system & Copernican theory.

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#books

Books by Galilei, Galileo (sorted by popularity)

Project Gutenberg offers 75,205 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.
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Pythagoras was a sort of mythical figure, since he left no writings, much information about him results from the testimony of his followers...
#philosophy #pythagoras #pythagoreanism #historyofphilosophy #mathematics
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#OTD in 1824.

Lord Byron falls ill at Missolonghi while taking part in the Greek War of Independence. He dies of fever on April 19. The Greeks mourned Lord Byron deeply, and he became a hero.

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A Narrative of Lord Byron's Last Journey to Greece by Pietro Gamba (1825):
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#OTD in 1908.

The weekly boys' story paper The Magnet is first published in London, containing "The Making of Harry Wharton", the first serial story of the fictional Greyfriars School written by Charles Hamilton as Frank Richards and introducing the character of Billy Bunter. He was introduced as a minor character, but developed into one of the principal characters of the stories as author Charles Hamilton realised his comic potential.

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#comics

fictional character created by Charles Hamilton (using the nom de plume of Frank Richards)

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#PuzzleOfTheDay: The digit sum of a natural number is the sum of all its digits e.g. digit sum of 72 is 7+2 = 9, digit sum of 9045 = 9+0+4+5 = 18.

What is the sum of first 99 digit sums i.e. digit sum of 1 + digit sum of 2 + ... digit sum of 99?

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Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel

Very small storm-petrel. Fairly common in warmer offshore waters and not usually seen from shore. Plumage black overall with large, wedge-shaped white rump patch and slightly notched tail tip. Often feeds and associates with Least and Black storm-petrels. Similar to slightly larger Leach’s and Townsend’s storm-petrels, but flies with deeper wingbeats, and white rump patch is larger and longer.

Link: ebird.org/species/wrspet
Photo Location: Ecuador

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#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Italian #Polymath Galileo Galilei (1564) - known as the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of the scientific method".

Philosopher #Socrates was sentenced to death by the city of Athens (399BC).

The first draft of the complete human #Genome was published in Nature (2001)

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Fish with bumping bass, disco-dancing spiders, and other extreme ways animals attract a mate.#ourfavoritereads #valentinesday #sex #love #animals #section-Articles

Animal Courtships: Our Favorite Reads

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#sex #section-Articles #love #animals #valentinesday #ourfavoritereads

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Back in 2018, I made this very handy mini egg-flip. And for what it was designed to do (flip eggs, move biscuits off trays, etc) it excelled.
However, youngest child has been using it to fry steaks and pressing down on the steak in the process, so the thin shank glued in to a turned wooden handle was a weak point. The wood broke.

Rather than just make another handle with the same problem, I set about fixing the attachment point.

I took some engineering grade stainless bar, and forged down a small part of it and formed a cone, then welded that to the egg-flip shank. The existing wooden handle fits inside beautifully. I'm now waiting for the epoxy holding it in there to set before it can go back in service.

#blacksmith #repair #metalwork #utensils

#repair #metalwork #utensils #blacksmith

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Today's gardening task: hunting around the backyard looking for volunteer vegetable seedlings that sprouted in the rain to transplant to the garden beds (so far: carrots, beets, and some kind of greens....). All-volunteer garden this year so far. #gardening
#gardening

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Tonight I start #FediFortuneFriday where I will pull a fortune cookie for the #Fediverse from a jar I have, crack it open, eat the cookie and read the fate of this place for the weekend. The one I pulled today is perfect.

*we use only real cookies with real fortunes, no AI bs

#fediverse #fedifortunefriday
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I just signed up for a free program with Aira that enables blind-owned small businesses to access 150 free minutes a month to assist with business-related tasks. Since @DesireeRenae and I are starting the business together, we get 300 free minutes each month for the business. With the 10 free minutes every 30 minutes through the AI feature, this could assist us with many of the inaccessible tasks we are currently encountering as we work to create our business. I'm sharing this in case others don't know about this service.
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