So NASA just dropped their most detailed map of the seafloor ever. We know so little about the ocean floor that this is. This is amazing. So they use a satellite called SWOT. SWOT S W O T, which stands for Surface Water and ocean typography. It is orbiting the earth right now and …
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Jupiter
If I knew any of this I forgot it.
Canada Day Tornado In Didsbury, Alberta. 2023
Something I didn’t consider when I lived out there. A few km north of Calgary. Hurricanes here are bad but that is on another level.
Bear Dens
Black bears get creative with their winter dens. You could walk right by one and not even know! Each winter, our biologists use radio telemetry to find collared bears and monitor the population. Without collars, we’d never find them! Here’s where we found bears this winter: Blowdowns 37% Stumps 21% Brush piles 11% Ground …
Helium
I was surprised it takes this much. Hardly practical.
A boy fishing.
Carl Bloch (1834-1890), Danish painter. Title: “En Dreng, der fisker.” (A boy fishing). Date of artwork 1872. Oil on panel. Dimensions: 27 cm × 18 cm (10.6 in × 7 in). Exhibition history: ▪︎ Københavns Rådhus (Copenhagen City Hall), “Raadhusudstillingen af Dansk Kunst til 1890”, 1901, no. 169. ▪︎ Guildhall Art Gallery, London, “Exhibition of Works by Danish painters”, …
Incredible Tornado Footage
Clear camera work and the type of tornado not obscured by rain, etc. Hard to believe 4 people lived through that. The 3rd tornado was the longest and most destructive and touched down between Clear Lake and Gary, SD. It was rated a high end EF3 with wind speeds estimated at 155-165 mph. The tornado …
Spring by Mork
“A View of Hornbæk”, 1916 By, Peder Mørk Mønsted (Danish, 1859-1941) Oil on canvas This painting portrays a peaceful rural scene in Hornbæk, Denmark. He was incredibly prolific. This one is a wonderful depiction of spring. I am ready for it.
Spring Sounds
SourceThat nasal “peent” you sometimes hear just after sunset isn’t a frog. It’s the beginning of a courtship ritual that happens over fields and open yards every early spring. As the light fades, a small brown bird calls from the ground for a few minutes. Then, without warning, it lifts straight into the sky, circling …
Sucks for Elon.
Terraforming Mars isn’t a climate problem—it’s an industrial nightmare