John Hayden

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Smith, fiddler, grampa, retired engineer. Thinks globally, reads locally. Tries to make the world a bit better. Opinions=mine. Be kind.
Twitter@anvilwonk
Philomena!!
Are you guys ready for the buck-wildest agriculture story I've ever heard
Repost with alt text (thank you, @erty!)
This passage from @debcha's "How Infrastructure works" is such a truth that often gets forgotten or ignored on the hunt for profit. It's a very familiar and recurring theme in resilience engineering texts and research. And it also rings true for me in this current trend of continuous layoffs that take more and more slack and capacity out of tech systems being maintained (in addition to the human cost) as remaining humans need to do more work in the same amount of time.
On this holiest of mammal holidays, Groundhog’s Day, there are only 3 more weeks until the #2024MarchMammalMadness bracket drops and 5 more weeks until the 12th Annual March Mammal Madness Tournament begins!
Teaser trailer:
https://youtu.be/1m-t5n12w90
Library guides for educators: https://libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalMadness
Created by Katie Hinde @Mammals_Suck of ASU.
If you’re learning, youre winning!
Also #carnage!
Teaser Trailer 2024 March Mammal Madness

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It's beginning to look a lot like FLAMING HYDRA, courtesy of our pre-launch HOLIDAY PREVIEW SPECTACULAR, which features brand-new seasonal essays from Diana Moskovitz and Tom Scocca and a star-studded discussion of Ace of Base led by Leila Brillson, all at flaminghydra.com/preview/

Ok this is ridiculously lucky
🐴 Animal #170 🐳
I figured it out in 3 guesses!
🟨🟨🟩
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 6.5

https://metazooa.com
#metazooa

Metazooa

Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

Metazooa
FPV of the rescue of the lava levee construction equipment near dawn, outside Grindavík, Iceland.

🌋😢🇮🇸 „We're basically just looking at the fact that there's lava flowing on both sides of the defensive wall. There is a volcanic fissure that has opened up inside it. Lava is flowing a few hundred meters north of the town, this is 400 to 500 meters. Lava flows towards Grindavík“

https://www.ruv.is/english/2024-01-14-an-eruption-has-begun-north-of-grindavik-401887/

Grindavík eruptions - RÚV.is

An eruption began north of Grindavík just before 8am on SundayA second fissure opened above the town around midday on the same dayLava reached the town from the second fissure and three houses were lostThat second fissure eruption is over, and the first, larger fissure, now shows no sign of ongoing eruptionThe eruption does not present a threat to lifeFlights to and from Iceland are unaffected

RÚV

@futurebird

Photographer: René Krekels
Title: Wood Ants Firing Acid Secretion
Nationality: Dutch
Occupation: Biologist

René:
‘I had been studying the lifestyle of wood ants in the Netherlands for work when I noticed the defending ants of a very large ant’s nest seemed eager to scare me off by spraying acid towards me. Luckily it wasn’t that destructive, and it provided me with a great opportunity to photograph them defending the nest.’

Website: www.renekrekels.nl
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Category Winners — Close-up Photographer of the Year

Find out more about the 11 category winning pictures of Close-up Photographer of the Year 5 (2023).

Close-up Photographer of the Year