Love this blog; here's a beautiful mix of detailed observation and conceptual digression #SciComm #algae #dataviz #MartynKelly #LifeOnEarth #waysofseeing
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Eye to the microscope …

The eye always knows more than it sees.  Kenneth Clark I have been watching the weather forecast and the river levels closely for the past three weeks, trying to find a window of opportun…

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Living rocks, gently rolling …

A trope in film noir where the protagonist is seduced by a femme fatale which came to mind when I was in Ambleside earlier in June.   There were signs of a surface cyanobacterial scum in Windermere…

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A garden of sub-visual life-forms …

We are inclined to overlook the very small that dwell among us; yet, without them we ourselves could not exist; for every one of us is a Garden of sub-visual life forms … Think of them as God’s tin…

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