Distance to the nearest National Park.. Amazing Maps The Adirondacks are actually the largest wild lands in the east and not included here so a little misleading but still interesting.
Month: November 2024
Snakes and Raptors
A capture at the exact moment J. Rigatti El Curioso Two favorite critters of Steve’s. A 3d printed resin massasauga rattlesnake model I’ve just finished painting with acrylics. Russ Jones Something for Steve’s desk?
Coolest Catch
Today was the absolute coolest catch I’ve ever seen while hawking. I’ll save you all the boring stuff that led up to Athena ripping this large buck gray squirrel off the side of the tree about 75 feet up. Upon falling the squirrel bit her and wiggled it’s way loose from her talons about 30 …
High-res lidar exposes large, high-elevation cities along Asia’s Silk Roads
The first-ever use of cutting-edge drone-based lidar in Central Asia allowed archaeologists to capture stunning details of two newly documented trade cities high in the mountains of Uzbekistan. A team of researchers led by Michael Frachetti, professor of archaeology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and Farhod Maksudov, director of the …
Vultures and AI as death detectors
Vultures are perfectly adapted by millions of years of evolution to detect carcasses across vast landscapes quickly and reliably. They have outstanding eye-vision and sophisticated communication that allows them to monitor very large areas of land when many individuals work together. Vultures thus fulfill an important ecological role by cleaning landscapes of carrion and containing …
Got ‘cha
This is one of my all time favorite two image photographs. Bobcat vs Blue Heron –Jacob Hall Canon R6 Mark II Got ‘cha Yeah, it will be hard to beat that. BTW the bobcat got it but I didn’t see aftermath pix which was too bad. They had to end up in the water.
Ramanujan’s divine genius
Srinivasa Ramanujan brings life to the myth of the self-taught genius. He grew up poor and uneducated and did much of his research while isolated in southern India, barely able to afford food. In 1912, when he was 24, he began to send a series of letters to prominent mathematicians. These were mostly ignored, but …
The Chihuahua desert once had tall grasses and they are coming back.
The Chihuahua desert once had tall grasses and they are coming back. Meet the superhero Alejandro Carrillo, fighting climate change with CATTLE and TREES! This used to be a dry, barren, crusty desert at Las Damas Ranch in the Chihuahuan Desert. Now, without applying fertilizer, irrigation, or chemicals on his livestock, he’s transformed the land. …
Zero Taxes the Brain
“Zero is, by many mathematicians, definitely considered one of the greatest — or maybe the greatest — achievement of mankind,” said the neuroscientist Andreas Nieder(opens a new tab), who studies animal and human intelligence at the University of Tübingen in Germany. “It took an eternity until mathematicians finally invented zero as a number.” Perhaps that’s no …
FYI Fair Warning.
Did you know small lead fragments can be present in hunter-harvested deer and bear, particularly in ground meat? Often, lead particles are too small to detect by sight or feel, making removal practically impossible. Lead is also a threat to eagles that feed on the remains of hunter’s harvests. Please consider using lead free ammunition.The …