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Post by vertolive on Nov 8, 2020 14:28:40 GMT
Like a magpie, I occasionally find shiny things to share
”He’d grown unused to woods like this. He’d become accustomed to the Northwest, evergreen and shaded dark. Here he was surrounded by soft leaves, not needles; leaves that carried their deaths secretly inside them, that already heard the whispers of Autumn. Roots and branches that knew things.”
—Michael Montoure —found in Slices (2011)
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Post by vertolive on Nov 9, 2020 2:51:45 GMT
Crows rock!
2014 study showed that New Caledonian crows, rooks, and European jays can solve an Aesop’s Fable challenge, dropping stones into a water-filled tube to bring a floating bit of food within reach, something kids generally can’t do until age 7. These birds were the first nonhuman animals to solve the task.
Science Sept. 25, 2020
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Post by jamberrychoux on Nov 9, 2020 3:40:03 GMT
Crows rock! 2014 study showed that New Caledonian crows, rooks, and European jays can solve an Aesop’s Fable challenge, dropping stones into a water-filled tube to bring a floating bit of food within reach, something kids generally can’t do until age 7. These birds were the first nonhuman animals to solve the task. Science Sept. 25, 2020 This made me think of the magazine - DISCOVER. My husband and I used to have a subscription to it. We loved the fact that it could take a lot of complex subjects and relay the information in such a way that a layperson could understand it. I used to read it cover to cover (before I had kids). A lot of fascinating topics were always presented there. Then, life got too busy, and we pretty much canceled all of our magazine subscriptions. Wonder if the magazine is still in existence or if it has gone the way of the dinosaur or changed their format to an online one?
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Post by richila on Nov 9, 2020 13:50:31 GMT
Crows rock! 2014 study showed that New Caledonian crows, rooks, and European jays can solve an Aesop’s Fable challenge, dropping stones into a water-filled tube to bring a floating bit of food within reach, something kids generally can’t do until age 7. These birds were the first nonhuman animals to solve the task. Science Sept. 25, 2020 This made me think of the magazine - DISCOVER. My husband and I used to have a subscription to it. We loved the fact that it could take a lot of complex subjects and relay the information in such a way that a layperson could understand it. I used to read it cover to cover (before I had kids). A lot of fascinating topics were always presented there. Then, life got too busy, and we pretty much canceled all of our magazine subscriptions. Wonder if the magazine is still in existence or if it has gone the way of the dinosaur or changed their format to an online one? Here's the link to Discover Magazine: www.discovermagazine.com/
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Post by vertolive on Nov 11, 2020 23:39:25 GMT
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Post by michelleg on Nov 12, 2020 15:51:50 GMT
Oh, I love this conservation effort - and how funny that we haven't been able to create a synthetic ink that is as long lasting as the this medieval one.
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Post by radellaf on Nov 12, 2020 16:17:57 GMT
Oh, I love this conservation effort - and how funny that we haven't been able to create a synthetic ink that is as long lasting as the this medieval one. I'm pretty sure the carbon inks last as long, even if they aren't as pretty. Maybe it's the longest lasting of the organic dyes? Anthocyanins are pretty common. I made pokeberry ink as a kid but don't think I have any of what I wrote any more, to see how it held up.
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Post by vertolive on Dec 17, 2020 0:17:19 GMT
Found. Shiny item...
“Uncharted territory,” I said. “The parts on the maps of our lives that we don’t understand. In cartographer’s language they call these places sleeping beauties.”
—Christopher Barzak —found in The Love We Share Without Knowing (2008)
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Post by distractedmom on Dec 17, 2020 1:10:37 GMT
One of my favorite quotes: “Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we are quoting.” ~John Green
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Post by Lupine on Dec 20, 2020 12:44:02 GMT
Fun topic! "This Shortest Day,/ As promise wakens in the sleeping land:/They carol, feast, give thanks,/ And dearly love their friends,/ And hope for peace." -"The Shortest Day" (poem) -Susan Cooper
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Post by vertolive on Jan 1, 2021 21:11:30 GMT
“And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things.“
Rainer Maria Rilke letter to Clara Rilke. Jan. 1, 1907
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Post by vertolive on Feb 11, 2021 22:11:26 GMT
From a favorite author:
“Like the old lady, I don’t know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.”
—Flannery O’Connor —from a July 21, 1948 to To Elizabeth McKee —found in The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery
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Post by distractedmom on Feb 19, 2021 15:12:29 GMT
"Science has taught me that everything is more complicated than we first assume, and that being able to derive happiness from discovery is a recipe for a beautiful life." ~Hope Jahren, Lab Girl
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