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almost home
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@rebeccathenaturalist
I keep forgetting I still have unposted PBS Eons work, so let's have a little bit more of that this week:
ā¢ The polydolopimorphian metatherian Wamradolops and the paucituberculatan marsupial Perulestes from "When the Amazon Flowed Backwards"
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Preservation of Polar Regions and Glaciers, Hungary, 2009
grizzly and friends and food :) this will be the postcard for creature club in June!
assemblyglassworks
Do you think it's immoral to use chatgpt for college assignments? I think it's unfortunately unavoidable.
It is absolutely immoral, completely counterproductive to the goal of learning things, and turns out incredibly subpar work.
As for unavoidableā¦.you understand that the vast majority of people who have ever graduated college throughout history did so without ever once using AI, right? You understand that?
You understand that the point of writing papers isnāt just to have a paper with words on it, right? You understand that the entire point is to do the mental work necessary to put your learning into organized words, such that you actually learn it? And that if you outsource that to AI you are not learning?
We started a new project in the weekly metalworking class today! We're practicing metal piercing, and I'm liking it a lot better than I thought I would. These three pieces will be sweat soldered together like a sandwich, with the copper tree in the back, the brass tree in the middle, and then the copper stag on top. I think I want to refine the stag's muzzle a bit more, since he looks rather moose-ish.
I also dropped the trillium pendant from my weekend class into the pickle longer to get the rest of the carbonization off of it. It still obviously needs a lot of filing and polishing, but you can see some of the brass peeking through on the petals.
I will admit that at the end of my very first class weeks ago, I had my doubts as to whether I was going to actually enjoy all this. I kept breaking saw blades. Sawing corners was really difficult. I wasn't good at precise lines. But by the end of the second class, when I had successfully soldered those tiny, imperfect bits of metal together, I felt like I had accomplished something.
And now here we are, a month in, and I'm already working on my second sweat-soldered statement necklace, I have four little rings waiting for next week's class on polishing and refining, and I'm looking forward to moving someplace this fall that has an actual outdoor space where I could do my own soldering at home.
I am SO glad I enrolled in these classes.
a walk after the storm
I had a dream last night that I ran away from fascists and ended up at this farm that was full of this weird but very large prehistoric animal that was like a fluffy Tapir and I want to know if it actually exists. It was about the size of a Dairy Cow.
Like this but with big fluffy hair with white streaks
Oh my god
A plethora of leafhoppers at the porch light! Peep that funky looking striped yellow gentleman: a Japanese maple leafhopper!
my pink snails
So in addition to my weekly metalworking class, I also signed up for a one day nature-themed jewelry class this past weekend at the Multnomah Arts Center. In a space of about five hours I cut, filed, chased, shaped, and soldered these pieces of brass and copper into a Pacific trillium (Trillium ovatum) pendant about 2 1/2 inches across.
I think the part I'm proudest of is the fact that I managed to sweat solder the three sepals on the back at the same time, while also keeping the center (representing stamens and stigmas) which I'd already soldered attached. One of the sepals moved slightly during the soldering process, but you know what? I'll take it. Considering that before this class the most complicated thing I'd made were wire circles, I think I managed to pull off a pretty neat process here. (My chasing needs a LOT of practice, but that's okay.)
The piece still needs some filing and polishing to finish it off. The petals will return to their brass color, while the copper will be shinier. We're supposed to be learning how to make metal chain later in the weekly class, so I may make a bespoke chain for this statement piece.
OP: "I've seen lion dancing and dragon dancing before, but this is the first time I've seen realistic lobsters fighting clams."
the prawn bomb exploded into shrimpnel
a lot of people were krilled
Conifer chicken of the woods
From previous fossils, they already knew the dinosaur had asymmetric feathers, which are vital to creating thrust in modern, flying birds. But the hard slab of limestone around this specimen had also preserved a key layer of feathers called tertials that had never been documented before in Archaeopteryx.
āItās important that this is the first time these feathers have been seen,ā John Nudds, a paleontologist at the University of Manchester in England who didnāt participate in the study, tells the Guardianās Hannah Devlin. āThese new feathers seen in this beautifully preserved specimenāas well as the asymmetric feathersāconfirms it could fly.ā
She could fly!
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@seananmcguire Something to brighten your day. She could fly!!!
Liberian Mongoose Liberiictis kuhni
Found in Liberia and Ivory Coast, it was not known to Western science until 1958. A live specimen was exhibited at the Toronto Zoo, but civil war in Liberia has prevented further study. Due to its limited range and the fact that it is heavily hunted, the Liberian mongoose is considered endangered.
image by Kevin Schafer
