Some inks and line work of buildings, water towers, and a cityscape over my pencils for an illustration in my next comic IN THE CITY, Part 5. About two or so hours of work compressed into about 90 second.
The CCA illustrates the correlation between informative spectral features and the fossils in the Rhynie chert. The CCA uses the most informative ATR-FTIR absorption bands obtained after dimension reduction and feature selection (bands 1, 2, 7, and 10 to 12 in table S1, see Methods, Supplementary Text Extended Methods, and fig. S3). It shows strong correlation between the fossilization products of sugar-protein (amide I, II, N-products, and carboxylate) and Fungi, Arthropod, Oomycetes, and Amoebae. Bacteria show a strong correlation with aliphatic CHx moieties. On the other hand, P. taiti, and land plants, shows a negative correlation with all these products. The CCA supports the differences between the molecular composition of P. taiti and Fungi, and differences with the other fossils.
So Prototaxites are not fungi (probably), not flora, and possibly not animalia, and were around more or less only in the Devonian... probably not aliens, but they are very much outside the major kingdoms of life as we know it. 🧪
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A six-panel comic titled "Wildlife Tracking Tips". In panel 1, the text says "A white-tailed deer traveled through here," and there are white-tailed deer prints in fresh snow. In panel 2, the text says "An American Red Squirrel came by," and the leap marks of a red squirrel are in the snow. In panel 3, the text says "A Snowshoe Hare passed through," and there are the distinctive fluffy-footed marks from a snowshoe hare jumping across the snow. n panel 4, the text says "The Snowshoe Hare found a sword," and one of the front paw marks in the track has been replaced with a long thin line running alongside the track. In panel 5, the text says "The Snowshoe Hare is dual wielding," and both front paw marks have been replaced with long thin lines. In panel 6, the text says "The Snowshoe Hare tamed a mount, vastly increasing its jumping distance. You should run," and the Snowshoe Hare trail runs into a deer track and disappears.
Wildlife tracking tips. A wintry comic from last year.
viney plant with white eggplants that loo, well like, eggs.
Friendly reminder that we call eggplant eggplant because the "normal" eggplant used to look like this
Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.
A cubic millimeter of mouse brain with 75,000 neurons, vizualized by Quorumetrix Studio:
youtu.be/blaS5fBJdsE
Watching the way the signals propagate through the layers, with pyramidal cells integrating and processing 11,061 inputs at a time is mindbending.
People who drive in Philly, do we think I can safely go to Cherry Hill and drive back with a bookcase strapped to the top of my car today?
It is a weird measurement that actually works for my hallway so I really want it, but I am not a super experienced driver and don't want to take risks, either
an old map of the Petersburg, VA area. Near where Chesdin Lake is now, there is “Botts Falls” and “Indian Burial Ground”
“boy, I bet this waterfall and burial mound are at the bottom of a lake” he said, weary of the way east coast landscapes have been treated
cartoon: in the style of Egyptian heiroglyhics the lyrics to the Time Warp have been phonetically translated and help illustrate characters from RHPS Caption; Rocky Horus Picture Scroll
From the Larchives: The Rocky Horus Picture Scroll. One of my favorite works. I had the assistance of an Egyptology PhD student to translate the Time Warp phonetically. Enjoy :)
Illuminated letter B decorated with a man in a pointy hat sat in a chair writing a book.
Illumination workshop on Saturday 29 November @rcpmuseum!
⭐Artist-led practical session you'll leave with your very own illuminated letter made with REAL GOLD.
📚Inspired by the beauty of medieval manuscripts with a chance to see one up close and personal.
history.rcp.ac.uk/event/illumi...
Deer + bunny + cargo shorts = kangaroo
THIS WEEK’S WEATHER — #Philadelphia #weather #PAwx #PhillyWx
Monday
A sharp cold front moves through after midnight tonight. As has been the case recently, the heavier rain will stay to our far north and west. That said, Philadelphia and its surrounding counties . ... buff.ly/YIfUVhD
Camille Pissarro played a major role in developing impressionism, and was father figure to many impressionist artists. But, like many others, he sold little during his lifetime. Here’s his View of Studio, Éragny, Pear Trees in Bloom ■ Rue Saint-Honoré, Afternoon Rain (1890s)
Topographic Map of Italy
More about Italy: brilliantmaps.com/country-m...
The art of Conversation, René Magritte (1898 - 1967)
Roman doctors be like:
HE NEEDS A 4, STAT
Albrecht Dürer, Studies of hares, ca. 1501-5 .Pen and black ink
art deco is short for arthur decoration. not many people know this
Image from a 1560s print (MEin Hertz freüdt sich allzeyt so sehr) that shows a Landsknecht posing originally with a drinking glass. The image has been enriched with a smartphone. The original image is digitized by Zentralbibliothek Zürich, PAS II 4/4, and can be accessed here: https://www.e-manuscripta.ch/zuzneb/content/titleinfo/2725498
Hi, this is a slow moving thread of #earlymodern images enriched with Smartphones used for selfies. #HistSelfie
The first selfie comes straight from the 1560s, and you see a German Landsknecht taking a stormy selfie.
Sound on 🐈⬛
Ultracool dwarf stars can be found with Earth-sized planets inside the habitable zone:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Small cold stars are far more numerous than Sun-like stars, so this greatly multiplies the number of possible habitable zones in the galaxy.
Star Trek Voyager homecoming issue 1 cover, with Captain Janeway in silhouette looking out a large window toward earth
eeeeeee today’s the day!
Star Trek Voyager Homecoming issue 1 is out in the world!!! we’re so excited to be telling this story, and we have such a journey waiting for you
please join us for the ride
time to boldly go… home 🖖🩷
A sign alongside announcing (in German) a "Nothammer", alongside a wall-mounted case containing a Nothammer. It's the German term for an emergency hammer, for use - in this instance - in case of fire
Magritte, but in German
Five rescaled maps of Minnesota on a Mercator projection map, covering 1) a large part of northern Greenland, 2) a large part of northern Scandinavia, 3) a part of central Europe, 4) a region of southern India, 5) a region of southeastern Australia.
A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons.
thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
[cat training class]
INSTRUCTOR: open your textbooks to chapter 3 and then slowly push the book off the desk
Flash flood threat in California today, particularly in the Sierra Nevada, as monsoon moisture combined with an easterly wave triggers scattered to widespread thunderstorms. #CAwx
www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/metwatch/met...
This area in northwestern Minnesota is a good example. At the time of the land survey (1870s-1880s) there was vegetation that sounds like oak savanna or aspen parkland on a lot of the dark-colored prairie soils to the northwest. bsky.app/profile/more...
Net te zien in de mist: knobbelzwanen in het licht van de opkomende zon
