I saw Titans

And then the light of an older heaven was in my eyes
and when my vision cleared, I saw Titans.
— Alan Moore

~ Doug Muir from, Occasional paper: The Light of an Older Heaven

slip:4ucooa2.

A wonderful quote to open a wonder-filled article.

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#AlanMoore #Astronomy #DougMuir

🐸🔬 Oh, the Herculean task of explaining the obvious: a newt so toxic even Mother Nature cringes. 🤦‍♂️ Doug Muir's "occasional" paper is like watching paint dry, but with more newts and zero explanations. Maybe next time, Doug, save us from the cliffhanger and just Wikipedia it. 🧠💡
https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/05/occasional-paper-the-impossible-predicament-of-the-death-newts/ #toxicnewts #DougMuir #sciencehumor #natureexplained #researchfail #HackerNews #ngated

If you know

If you know, you know. And if you don’t know… well, let’s talk about shrikes.

~ Doug Muir, from Occasional paper: The Suplex Bird

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I spotted this in RSS, and before I could mark it for later reading, I was halfway through.

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#Birds #DougMuir