Closing some tabs:

Ashley Braun for Audubon Magazine: "Got Beef With Cowbirds? This Researcher Wants to Change Your Mind", about the work of Mark Hauber https://www.audubon.org/magazine/got-beef-cowbirds-researcher-wants-change-your-mind

The Poet Training Tool: an interactive site that teaches you how to write good #AltText. Some examples are multiple-choice, in some you practice writing your own! https://poet.diagramcenter.org/how.html

Kate Wong for Scientific American: "First-ever flexible tool use seen in a cow suggests livestock are smarter than believed". "In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, cow tools are real." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-ever-flexible-tool-use-seen-in-a-cow-suggests-livestock-are-smarter/ (archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20260119175222/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-ever-flexible-tool-use-seen-in-a-cow-suggests-livestock-are-smarter/)

@pdimagearchive

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Table of the Comparative Heights of the Principal Mountains in the World (ca. 1826).

Source: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps / Wikimedia Commons

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f9204fc9-f295-406a-b8b6-7742aaa25f91

#maps #charts #cartography #mountains #geography #continents #art #publicdomain

@2tout2rien

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🪵✨ On croit voir une nappe qui tombe… mais c’est du bois sculpté.
Cette table (tout en bois) est signée Vedad Kulalić : l’illusion est tellement bonne qu’on a envie de “repasser” le meuble. 😅
Vous posez un verre dessus… ou vous mettez une vitrine autour ?

We think we see a tablecloth falling... but it's carved wood.
This table (all made of wood) is signed Vedad Kulalić: the illusion is so good that you want to pass over the furniture.
You put a glass on it... or you put a window around it?

#Wood #Crafts #Design #Sculpture #Unusual

@warandpeas

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