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Lawns are usually managed and evaluated by what we can see: height, flowers, biomass, tidiness, or biodiversity.
But mowing also changes what we cannot see: the elemental composition of plant biomass entering food webs: doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
June 14,1948
My favorite mimids. Catbirds waiting for me to finish my coffee and leave the blueberries to them.
Yep, they’re getting a little desperate.
Holy Moly…Bob Dylan on turning 80.
-from the NYT
Michał Filipiak
To anyone who loves language and the power of the right word, reading text from LLM’s is like one of those dreams where you are running, but moving very little.
It’s an incongruous feeling that something should be moving here—all the parts are in place—but nothing is actually happening.
We watched this again, the first time since seeing it in the theatre in 1989. A straight-up masterpiece.
Go to the top and read down.
Shubin is a breath of fresh air when he says we live in hyper partisan times—anything we do will be called partisan.
So all we can honestly do is do the best science we know how and communicate it to the public clearly.
NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
Mike Kaspari
Mike Kaspari
Mike Kaspari
Mike Kaspari
Mike Kaspari
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Mike Kaspari
I first met Neil Shubin 30 years ago when he was digging for fossils of our fishy ancestors in Pennsylvania road cuts. Now he's becoming president of the National Academy of Sciences. We talked about taking the helm of the 163-year-old organization at this fraught moment. Gift link: nyti.ms/4giD3FX
Why I hate and fear AI.
"Candle in the Wind" but it's in a major key and played by a looney tunes jazz band
