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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 2h

Long trail run today. That’s it, have a good night or morning depending on your locale.

The side of a a brown prarie grass covered mountain looking up. Topped by a cloudy blue sky.

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Drosera @drosera0sundew.bsky.social · 13h

gorgeous book plate! Was curious if this structure was still around and I found this modern photo of a similar style. more pictures at snippetsofparis.com/chateau-blois/

modern photo of a similar staircase in the historical engraving of the quoted post. less ornate

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 12h

“O COULD we but in sorrow find One friend of sympathizing mind, We'd love the others just the same..” For #NationalPoetryDay, this is from a scarce book of poetry in my personal library by Carrie L. Brown. It was published in Boston by her father in 1867 when she was 15 years old.

A page from a 19th century book of poetry. “POEMS.
ONE FRIEND.
O coULD we but in sorrow find One friend of sympathizing mind, We'd love the others just the same, And listen for their well-known name.
But in the hours of sorest grief, In this dear friend we'd find relief, And go to her in deepest woe, And whisper then in words so low, The tender sorrow of the mind, Confide it to this friend so kind, And, soft as bells for vespers' peal, She'd cheer our hearts, our troubles heal.
We'd cling to her dear loving breast, And think of all, we loved her best, Because in sorrow we should find A sweet and sympathizing mind.”

#booksky

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 13h

With apologies to the English. That’s what she called them. 🇫🇷 🤝 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 13h

Title page from my copy of “Specimens of Mediaeval Architecture..” by English architect William Eden Nesfield published in 1862. The title page art with an allegory of architecture is decidedly not by a medieval artist; it’s by Albert Joseph Moore, who was part of the British Aesthetic Movement.

The title page of a book with the full Tuan’s publication information in a box in very medieval looking fanciful type. To its left is a large medieval S, the fist letter of the title, “Specimens,” and below them is an illustration of four figures with historical dates in line facing an allegorical figure of architecture sitting on a bench. Something like that.

Booksky medievalsky art 🖼️ etc

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 14h

This quote speaks to me directly in every possible way 👇

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · 14h

"I lose in them my instant of brief ills. There is great easing of the heart, and cumulance of comfort on high hills." Geoffrey Winthrop Young, poet, author and mountaineer features in the current exhibition - Higher Education, Trinity in the Mountains. #nationalpoetryday #mountaineering

Black and white photograph of a man sitting on a rocky overhang with text Higher Education Trinity in the mountains.

Text and on black and white photograph of a mountain side-

Only a hill, but all of life to me’.
When poet, mountaineer and Trinity College
student Geoffrey Winthrop Young published these
lines in 1909, he captured a spirit of vertical
ambition and elevated joy which, in one
form or another, has pervaded Trinity’s five
centuries of history. From the likes of John
Ray, Isaac Newton and Adam Sedgwick,
who viewed mountains as theological
and scientific sites of wonder and
experiment, via the dizzyingly sublime
poetic peaks of Lord Byron, to the
pioneering mountaineers of the
modern age, this exhibition
explores how Trinity members
have repeatedly sought out
alternative forms of higher
education, whether atop the
roofs and spires of lowland
Cambridge itself or upon
the lofty heights of the Alps,
Andes and Himalaya
far beyond

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 14h

For the #MinCup26 final, going with #quartz: this is the piezoelectric quartz device that Pierre Curie & his brother invented to demonstrate the piezoelectric effect, which later served as the foundational technology that enabled Pierre’s wife Marie to discover radium and polonium.

A brass mechanical device suspending what looks like a scale between the legs of its wooden tripod support.
Source: “A piezoelectric quartz device that belonged to the Curie Laboratory,
dating from 1904. It was restored in 2005 and is now displayed at the Curie Museum.
Photo: Curie Museum / Uriel Chantraine.”

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Long & dismal are the complaints which the Indians make of European ingratitude & injustice.. ‘It was we,’ say the Lenape, Mohicans, & their kindred tribes, ‘who so kindly received them on their first arrival into our country.’” Excerpt from my copy of a book published in Philadelphia in 1819.

An over 200 yr old book opened to a page: “CHAPTER TI.
INDIAN RELATIONS OF THE CONDUCT OF THE EUROPEANS
TOWARDS THEM.
LONG and dismal are the complaints which the Indians make of European ingratitude and injustice. They love to repeat them, and always do it with the eloquence of nature, aided by an energetic and comprehensive lan-guage, which our polished idioms cannot imitate. Often I have listened to these descriptions of their hard suf. ferings, until I felt ashamed of being a white man.
They are, in general, very minute in these recitals, and proceed with a great degree of order and regularity.
They begin with the Virginians, whom they call the long knives, and who were the first European settlers in this part of the American continent. " It was we," say the Lenape, Mohicans, and their kindred tribes, " who
"so kindly received them on their first arrival into our
"country. We took them by the hand, and bid them
"welcome to sit down by our side, and live with us as
"brothers, but how did they requite our kindness?
"They at first asked only for a little land on which to
"raise bread for themselves and their families, and pas-
"ture for their cattle, which we freely gave them. They
"soon wanted more, which we also gave them. They
"saw the game in the woods, which the Great Spi-
"rit had given us for our subsistence, and they want,”..

#history 🗃️

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/09/2026

The US tried to forcibly assimilate the Lenape in brutal boarding schools, but a new exhibit proves their modern-day culture is vibrant and alive

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Abducted, renamed, but still here – the art of the first Native New Yorkers and their fight for their land

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If anyone has wondered what cats looked like in medieval times and dogs during the renaissance, here you go.

Two dogs and a black cat stylistically painted as per the post in the sides of candles.

#medievalsky

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Once upon a time art and science were also thought important to our government leaders along with industry. FDR dedicating the Hoover Dam OTD in 1935

FDR standing giving a speech on a podium. Image via Bureau of Reclamation.

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A Winged Figure of the Republic next to Hoover Dam, dedicated OTD in 1935, by immigrant Oskar J.W. Hansen, described by the artist as the “calm of intellectual resolution, & the enormous power of trained physical strength, equally enthroned in placid triumph of scientific accomplishment." My 📸

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Waning gibbous moon tonight. My 📸

A photo of the moon, mare and craters visible.

moonrise

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A PhD dissertation in my personal library published by the U of Chicago Press in 1920. Its author, who died OTD in 1953, led the U of Chicago's basketball team to their first Big Ten Conference title in 1907. He later proved galaxies existed beyond the Milky Way & that the Universe is expanding. 📚

A large thin book with a title page on the front, Tbe University of Chicago
PHOTOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATIONS
OF FAINT NEBULAE
A DISSERTATION
SUBMITTED TO THE PACULTY
OF THE OGDEN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE
IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DECREE OF
DOCTOR OF PRILOSOPHY
DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY
BY
EDWIN POWELL HUBBLE
Publications of THe Yeaxes Onseavaroay, Vol. IV, Part II THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO, ILJINOIS
1920.”
It’s lying next to my copy of Mary Sommerville’s On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences published in 1837.

booksky science 🧪 astronomy

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What can we learn from cockroaches, raccoons and other unpopular creatures about our own place in nature? Join Marlene Zuk on 15 October at the Linnean Society, to spend some time with overlooked animals, and perhaps get to cherish them a little more. buff.ly/fUR4zQW

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Outsider Animals | Cherishing Shunned Creatures

Challenge everything you knew about animal cognition and behaviour - What can unpopular creatures teach us about belonging?

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great day recently on the saltmarsh at Greyabbey with #BotanicalSkillsNI and Co. Down VCR Graham Day. Compared two eelgrasses, tackled glassworts & oraches, found four glasswort species plus Kattegat Orache (Atriplex x gustafssoniana), phew! Check out bsbi.org/take-part/pr...

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026

New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:

science.org

NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding

Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Heading to church/therapy, have a good day.

An old photo I took of a trail I run quite frequently.

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“It took over 10 years to make this vast & colorful portrait of the galaxy, requiring over 600 Hubble overlapping snapshots. This stunning, colorful mosaic captures the glow of 200 million stars, still a fraction of Andromeda's population, spread across about 2.5 billion pixels.” via NASA ICYMI 🔭

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Once again I vote #graphite, which is what French artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres used to create this portrait. Plate from my copy of “Les portraits dessinés par J. A. D. Ingres" published in Paris in 1896. #MinCup26 This, btw, is how I casually dress to go grocery shopping.

A man wearing a long coat and period clothes with a top hat looking very smug and dapper.

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“One of the most remarkable creatures, in Lamarck’s estimation, was a jelly known as the ‘Venus girdle,’ a long, gelatinous, transparent, ribbon-like being with iridescent edges, all milky white with glints of blue. Also, a starfish-like echinoderm known as a ‘brittle star’…” So good 👇 🦑 🌊

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umamimommy.bsky.social @umamimommy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here they come! I've been feeding carrots to my neighbor's donkeys for 14 years! That's a lot of carrots. Originally, there were 6 donkeys. Down to three now, and one has only one eye.

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Alison Laurence @dinostalgia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've got Marx & Sagan in this essay & here's one more Carl—Kasell, the voice of Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! For some time, I thought Kasell WAS Sagan (surely host @petersagal.bsky.social's surname led me there). This was quite troubling to me, as a child in the late 90s... tinyurl.com/dinostories

lareviewofbooks.org

We Tell Ourselves Dinosaur Stories in Order to Live | Los Angeles Review of Books

We live within a library of antediluvian narratives, with more accessioned every day.

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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A really great essay on the history of dinosaurs in popular culture, including reviews of both "The End of Oak Street" and a new book by @tattersdill.bsky.social on "The Social Dinosaur: The Life of the Mesozoic in the Popular Imagination." 👇 🦖 #HistSTM

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 27/09/2026

The last three months are the warmest on record globally, relative to every other June-July-August period since 1850. Data from NOAA/NCEI's NOAAGlobalTempv6.1.0.

Line graph time series of global land mean surface temperature anomalies for each June-August period from 1850 through 2026. There is a long-term increasing trend and large year-to-year variability. The mean surface temperature anomaly averaged for June-August 2026 was 1.21°C for global land areas. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1901-2000 climate baseline. Data from NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI NOAAGlobalTemp v6.1.0.

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Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Even more essays in this Ocean Reveries series have been released - Jessica Riskin, one of my all-time favs, excerpting from her new book on Lamarck: "Even the very simplest plants and animals—tiny, fragile, translucent algae and monads—contained the power of life." pioneerworks.org/broadcast/je...

pioneerworks.org

The Sea Before Us | Broadcast

How the inventor of "biology" located life's beginnings in the sea.

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Lamarck contributed a subtle yet crucial change of emphasis: these mountains weren’t just made from the remains of marine organisms...[they] were made by living things. The original source of the mountains was not dead organisms, but the incessant activity of living ones." -Jessica Riskin #HPS 🧪 🦑

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Liv “Leev” Rainey-Smith @livraineysmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'll be a vendor and panelist at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon October 2-4th! My table will be in middle of the upstairs lobby with a large selection of original woodcut art as well as reproductions, cards, bookmarks, and other weirdness! #art #woodcut #hplff

A hand-colored woodcut print reproduced on maple wood veneer. The art resembles 16th century woodcut illustration, but depicts Cthulhu, a character created by H.P. Lovecraft. This hybrid humanoid sits cross-legged upon a black rock jutting out of the sea. One crab-like arm points to the stars, and the other down to a city emerging from the waves. It has dark batlike wings spread behind it. Above the figure are the latin words R'lyeh exsurgebit ubi astra parata sunt. .

A black ink woodcut print on cream colored paper. A simple black line frames a vertical rectangular scene of a blobby humanoid perched on a mound. It has no eyes and the mouth ends in tentacles. It plays a flute with stubby fingers. A black crescent moon is in the upper right and bog plants including a Sarracenia pitcher plant grow below its clawed feet.

A monstrous figure fills a black background. This woodcut print has been hand-colored in a rainbow of hues, from red at the top, to purple below. Depicted is a creature with a sharp tooth filled grimace, tentacle limbs, a long thin tail, and fins like wings containing numerous eyes.

A black woodcut reproduced on maple wood veneer. A simple black line encompasses a scene of a monstrous giant dancing inside a ring of black stones. The giant holds a key in one hand and gestures to a doorway in the cloud with the other. It has a scaled chest, tentacled hips with two crude eyes, furry legs, and sauropod feet. Two tiny humans gesture in the corners near bonfires, and birds fill the sky.

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KB @sorrykb.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026

You cant tell me this isn’t a word. I’ve been to a bluegrass show. 🐝

Today’s Spelling Bee game, rejecting my perfectly cromulent word “Fiddleful.”

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 27/09/2026

This admin has spent years going after science. It proposed the largest cut in NASA’s history, about a quarter of the agency and half of its science programs. But last month, a groundbreaking telescope left the launch pad anyway. And the story of how it got there is our good news this Sunday.

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Moo Dog Press @moodogpress.com · 27/09/2026

Shelter in the storm.

Under a goldenrod bloom—hello. Bostie looking for voles, moles, rabbits in swales of grass.(can see the movements under there when all dry.)

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Julienite is just blue. Halite (comes in different colours) is necessary to human life, used as art material: it’s carved, watercolour effects, salt prints, glazes, installations & more. As a marine geophysicist who does marine electromagnetic surveys depending on salinity: vote halite! #MinCup26

“Japanese Artist Motoi Yamamoto’s incredible, labyrinthine installations are the result of 45 hours of meticulously piled grains of salt, strewn inside a medieval castle in the South of France” via booooooom.com

The photo shows a stone chamber with vaulted ceiling in which Yamamoto has installed salt so it looks like tiny mountains and a large blood red floor surface covered with a salt labyrinth like a Turing pattern.

A carved medieval scene in halite with a kneeling man and crowned woman and armoured knights in the background in Wieliczka, Poland’s salt mine via Wieliczka Salt Mine Tours

“Spiral Jetty is a work of land art constructed in April 1970 that is considered to be the most important work by American sculptor Robert Smithson. Smithson documented the construction of the sculpture in a 32-minute color film also titled Spiral Jetty. Built on the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point in Utah entirely of mud, salt crystals, and basalt rocks, Spiral Jetty forms a 1,500-foot-long (460 m), 15-foot-wide (4.6 m) counterclockwise coil jutting from the shore of the lake.” Via Wikipedia

This aerial photo (Dia Art Foundation / Nancy Holt / Holt/Smithson Foundation) shows the burgundy reddish lake, the spiral earthwork whitish with salt and arid shoreline.

19th century salt print (early photographic method) of a bearded man in jacket facing left. The area outside of a rectangle with his face is much more faded sepia toned. Below in pencil is written “Charles Louis Wallace”

“The materials required for salt printmaking, the oldest negative-to-positive photographic technique, are simple: silver nitrate, cotton or rag paper, water, sodium thiosulfate, sunlight, and table salt” via The Harvard Gazette

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OUGS Social Media @ougeolsoc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Two of my winners head to head, but it has to be #halite for me in #MinCup26 Quarterfinal 3, for its ability to move mountains. Look what salt does to the Austrian Alps at Hallstatt, Austria. Saving halite's role in ocean chemistry and currents for the semis. C'mon #TeamHalite get those votes in!

Cross section of Austrian Alps S to N at Plassen, showing Permian/Triassic salt rock, Haselgebirge Fm

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A rare book in my personal library, in fact it’s possibly the only copy that exists; virtually no footprint in book markets or public library databases: “A Compilation of Pertinent Data Concerning Priority Achievements for U.S.A. Unmanned (sic) Spacecraft” by NASA administrator Sigurd A. Sjoberg 🚀

A manual style book with a light blue green cover. “REQUEST FOR REGISTRATION OF FIRST
PRIORITY ACHIEVEMENTS FOR
UNITED STATES UNMANNED SPACE FLIGHT
INTERNATIONAL AERONAUTIC ASSOCIATION
UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE FEDERATION AERONAUTIQUE INTERNATIONALE
A Compilation of Pertinent Data
Concerning Priority Achievements for U.S.A.
Unmanned Spacecraft
Submitted To
National Aeronautic Association
Federation Aeronautique Internationale.”

#booksky #spaceflight #space #history 🗃️ #tech #techsky #spacesky

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The harvest moon moonrise last night. My photo.

A photo of a full moon with trees silhouetted in the foreground.

fullmoon harvestmoon astrophotography

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wonderful to see that Helen De Cruz has won the International Society for Science & Religion's General Readership Book Prize for her work, Wonderstruck! This illuminating book reveals how wonder and awe are catalysts that can help us reclaim what makes life worth living. Learn more: buff.ly/IYNfe0Q

Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think by Helen De Cruz

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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published OTD in 1962. “[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.” 🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM

Caricature of Rachel Carson by David Levine for the New York Review of Books.

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“When I grow up I want to be carried away by owls” ICYMI

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bbny.bsky.social @bbny.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Always Repost Cute Drawings of Owls 🦉

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Danny Robb @inverting-vision.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In the 1930s, Hugo Benioff helped bring musical instruments and seismology into the electronic age. He invented the strain seismometer and electric violins, cellos, and pianos. Both efforts were part of the same intellectual project. #histSTM 🗃️ #seismology daily.jstor.org/what-does-an...

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What Does an Earthquake Sound Like? - JSTOR Daily

Seismologist Hugo Benioff spent decades turning seismic vibrations into signals he could study—and, eventually, hear.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just read someone wanting an app that connects people listening to the same song at the same time, and that is a radio

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British Nature Guide @britishnatureguide.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hummingbird Hawk-moth today in Looe in Cornwall. #mothsmatter

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Perhaps why I sing out loud when I need to get something done. 🎶 “Time to refill all the bird feeders, doo dah, doo dah. I said it’s time to refill all the bird feeders oh da doo dah day.” 🎶

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