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Kai Monarch
A distinctive, heavy-billed black-and-white flycatcher-like songbird from the Kai Islands. Adult entirely black except for white lower chest and belly and white outer tail feathers. Juvenile gray-brown above and buffy below. Singles and pairs inhabit mangrove, forest, forest edge, and woodland in lowlands and low hills. Joins mixed-species flocks. Unmistakable in its limited range. Song is a single disyllabic whistle, “see-ooo,” descending in the latter half. Calls include a rasping, scolding “grrr-grrr-grrr…” and a weak, wavering chatter.
Link: ebird.org/species/whtmon1
Photo Location: Indonesia
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Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes promotes environmentally sound landscaping practices to preserve biodiversity through the preservation, restoration and establishment of native plant communities.Sara Ressing (Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes)
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Normally, my range of interest in musical plays of all sorts begins in the ninetteenth century and ends in the 1950's or very early 1960's at the most, but there are a few exceptions. I have always wanted to see Man of La Mancha, after reading some of Don Quixote at university. Little did I know that none other than Olive Gilbert made a small appearance as the housekeeper in the live performance of the play. I learned this while researching her roles other than those with Ivor Novello. So naturally, this made me want to see it more. But I was expecting to find just the film. I had no idea I would actually find it with the original London cast and dialogue! Yet here it is! This is going to be fun!
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#DonQuixote #ManOfLaMancha #musical #OliveGilbert #theater #theatre
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I let a couple of carrots go to seed in the garden. The number of insects and arachnids that have found a home in them is amazing.
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Burchell's Coucal
A large, robust, ungainly cuckoo with rufous wings and a long, broad tail. Shows a solid dark cap and back of the head, and white underparts. Unlike other coucals, shows an obviously barred rump and upper tail coverts. It often moves clumsily, preferring to clamber about in rank vegetation or walk on the ground foraging for insects or small vertebrates. Its flight is labored and heavy. This species uses a wide variety of habitats with a thick understory, including savanna, woodland, forest edge, and wetlands. The song is a deep descending bubbling series, “bu-bu-bu bu bu bu bu”, that falls and then rises in pitch.
Link: ebird.org/species/whbcou3
Photo Location: South Africa
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An enormous chunk has broken off the world's largest iceberg, in a possible first sign the behemoth from Antarctica could be crumbling, scientists told AFP on Friday.Science X (Phys.org)
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Android 16’s Linux Terminal will soon be able to run graphical Linux apps, so we fired up Doom to show this feature off.Mishaal Rahman (Android Authority)
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The loving human to an adorable goldendoodle named Murphy, replaced the dog's missing eye with a stick-on googly eye.Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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Saw these springtails sheltering under a mushroom. By chance I noticed that they seem to be infected with a fungus as well. Each has a few threads emerging from it- on their backs, heads, and antennae.
I was shown some pics of springtails infected with a different sort of fungus (inaturalist.org/observations/2…)
Also, these springtails were still alive and moving (a bit, slowly). Maybe it's just a funky springtail hairdo?
#nature #naturephotography #macro #macrophotography #biology #springtail #fungi #FungiFriday #arthropods
Pandora batallata from 21800 Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur, France on February 17, 2024 at 10:41 AM by Olivier Clerc. The last of springtails! :) Focus stacks Dicyrtomina sp. infected with Pandora batallata fungi?iNaturalist
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Yay! I figured out how to follow Flipboard users on Friendica! I don't go to their profile, where I would need to sign up with a Flipboard account. I just search for them on Friendica, click on the result, and then press "follow". The rest is as always, where I can choose the channel, etc. Now, I can follow all sorts of accounts that I followed on Facebook and make my timeline a much happier place, full of interesting things!
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There are many post visibility settings on Mastodon:
🌎 Public - Everyone can see it
🌘 Unlisted/Quiet Public - Everyone can see it but it won't show up in search results or trends
🔒 Followers Only - Only your followers can see it
@ Mentions/Specific People - Only people you mention can see it, often used for DMs
WARNING: If you mention someone's account (if you @ them), they will be able to see that post on ALL visibilities.
Lots more info at:
➡️ fedi.tips/who-can-see-my-posts…
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
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I probably already mentioned it, but deadweb.club is a pretty interesting project that aims to connect people interested in exploring "defunct social media platforms, abandoned 3D worlds, and forgotten blogs".
Their newsletter hasn't been very active, but they just announced a new member joining the team, so definitely worth (re-)subscribing.
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Asteroid triggers global defence plan amid chance of collision with Earth in 2032 | The Guardian…
A 100 metre-wide #asteroid has triggered global planetary defence procedures for the first time after telescope observations revealed it has a chance of colliding with Earth in 2032... #planetaryscience #space #astronomy
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I don't know if this is the same plant, but perhaps Carolyn might have the answer...
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Carolyn’s Shade Gardens is a retail nursery located in Bryn Mawr, PA, specializing in showy, colorful, and unusual plants for shade. The only plants that we ship are snowdrops and miniature hostas…CAROLYN'S SHADE GARDENS
The sunflowers after harvest and sun dried. Beautiful pattern created by the seeds’ arrangement, creating spirals.
Those seeds are feeding the birds this winter 🐦⬛ 😊
I wish you all a nice weekend!
#BloomScrolling #Gardening #Flowers
#Sunflower #Growing #Seeds
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OilPrice.com: Gulf States Go Big on Solar…
The biggest and most influential Middle Eastern oil producers in #OPEC are making headlines for a rather surprising reason-their giant renewable energy projects... #middleast #renewableenergy #oil #economics #gulfstates #solarenergy
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Dr. Erica Brozovsky of Otherwords explained the Latin-Germanic origins of body part names and how they turned into the words we use today.Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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New Scientist: Quantum-inspired algorithm could enable better weather forecasts…
An algorithm inspired by quantum computers but used on classical machines can make weather forecasts and other turbulence simulations a thousand times easier to run... #quantumcomputing #weatherforcasts
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An algorithm inspired by quantum computers but used on classical machines can make weather forecasts and other turbulence simulations a thousand times easier to run… #quantumcomputing #weathe…for much deliberation
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#QuizOfTheDay: #Python is a very popular #Programming #Language - specially among data science, and AI/ML community.
Where was Python developed?
A. Bell Labs
B. Google
C. CWI (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
D. Microsoft
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Meet Agnès Sorel, the 15th-Century French Beauty Immortalized as Madonna
Sorel was France’s first official royal lover.
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After turning Charles VII's head in the 1440s, Agnès Sorel became his mistress and close advisor as well the era's great beauty.Artnet News in Partnership With Sotheby's Institute of Art (Artnet News)
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Oral drug from Vertex, branded as Journavx, represents alternative to addictive opioids that have fueled US crisisGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Black-necklaced Scimitar-Babbler
Medium-sized, strikingly patterned songbird endemic to Taiwan, where less common than Taiwan Scimitar-Babbler. Brown above, white below, with rich olive-brown flanks, rusty undertail coverts, and black “necklace” of blobby black streaks. Inhabits foothill and montane forests, where it skulks in undergrowth and shrubby edge. Pairs duet, giving bouncy-sounding hoots; alarm calls harsh and grating.
Link: ebird.org/species/sbsbab2
Photo Location: Taiwan
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#DidYouKnow: A Fata Morgana is a complex form of superior mirage that is seen in a narrow band right above the horizon.
It is an Italian term from a belief that these mirages, often seen in the Strait of Messina, were fairy castles in the air or false land created by her witchcraft to lure sailors to their deaths.
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A friendly cockatoo named Sweet Pea very gently petted the new puppy Copper and told him that she loved him when he joined the family.Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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The Brighter Side of News: Physicists discover what’s at the core of a black hole…
Research team has leveraged quantum computing and machine learning to provide new insights into the nature of black holes... #quantumscience #quantumcomputing #machinelearning #blackholes #physics
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#KnowledgeByte: A #Hologram is a three-dimensional image that is produced from a pattern of interference. The pattern of interference is created by a split coherent beam of radiation, such as a laser.
From military mapping to brain imaging, holograms are playing a crucial role in today's world.
A brief overview of #Hologram and #Holography.
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#OTD in 1863.
Jules Verne's novel Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (Cinq semaines en ballon) is published in Paris. It will be the first of Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires. This was Verne's first novel to be published by Pierre-Jules Hetzel, following the rejection of Voyage en Angleterre et en Écosse.
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Five Weeks in a Balloon at PG:
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Schubert was born #OTD in 1797.
Elena Gerhardt sings songs from Winterreise, with Conraad Vos at the piano, in 1927. Not a complete recording, alas, but I find her extraordinarily moving.
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@classicalmusic #Schubert #Winterreise
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
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It’s #FrescoFriday and what better way to usher in the weekend than by having a banquet! This fresco from Pompeii shows a good old feast in progress. We’re hoping the central figure at the front is demanding a refill 😅
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#Walk vs. #Run: Which is Most #Efficient? : Medium
In #2025, 5 Big #Trends Will Shape #Education : Forbes
What's so special about the #Human #Brain? : Nature
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in reply to Knowledge Zone • • •The #Biodiversity #Credit market is a nascent but rapidly evolving financial mechanism aimed at incentivizing the protection and restoration of nature.
It operates on the principle of generating and trading "biodiversity credits," which represent quantifiable and verifiable improvements in biodiversity.
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Biodiversity Credit Market
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