A blueberry haiku

Having fun with uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity in the human epistemological journey. Here to share random bits about education, food, technology, science, space, architecture, music, design, photography, philosophy, collective intelligence and miscellaneous curiosities; maybe see all of it as one.

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The Prolific Illustrator Behind Kewpies Used Her Cartoons for Women’s Rights

Rose O’Neill started a fad and became a leader of a movement

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Cuisine - Aldo Balding , 2018.

British , b. 1960 -

Oil on canvas , 51 x 41 in.

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An Enormous Fractured Acorn Seeds Meditation Among the Trees

In a lush, wooded pocket in Rouen, France, a meditation space shaped like an acorn rests on the forest floor.

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Les Galettes - Claude Monet , 1882.

French , 1840 - 1926

Oil on canvas

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Fumi Yanagimoto "nap"

柳本史

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Aman Khanna's Cast of Clay Personalities Meet at the Corner of Form and Function

Aman Khanna's symbolic ceramic sculptures, referred to as Claymen, are hand-crafted in New Delhi by the artist and a team of assistants.

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Rie Nakajima

中島梨絵

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Rajesh Vora Photographs the Unique Punjabi Tradition of Adorning Homes with Sculptural Water Tanks — Colossal

Visit India's Punjab state, and you'll likely encounter enormous sculptures of airplanes, tanks, and soccer players perched atop homes.

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If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

Explainer: what is citizen science?

Public participation in science is increasing, and citizen science has a central part in this. It is a contribution by the public to researc

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

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Coffee's on | Kenny Harris (2023)