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I went to the mineral wells fossil park last weekend and finally went thru and arranged my findings. Haven’t washed them or brushed them or anything I could probably get the star/butterfly pattern to pop on some of them more if I did.

#crinoid #fossil #microscoping #Texas #floricyclus #punctospirifer

microscope photo of a pipefish embryo:

https://twitter.com/a_r_shearer/status/1367741581504090115?s=21

“I finally did a take two on these pipefish embryo. Used a dissection scope after CPD just to make sure they were right-side-up this time🤦‍♀

#fish fry #microscoping #pipefish #syngnathidae #ichthyology

Week 3 Writing Assignment

Buzzing, stagnant, casual

-Aaron Katsimpalis

Buzzing, stagnant, casual-- the three stages of being from which to choose, yet do I have much choice? From the beginning of time, the precession, obliquity, and elliptical nature of the Earth all have had an effect. This marked me stagnant for a while, so I stayed in place, but that was after I had spread large and without constraint, albeit in a casual state. Milankovitch is the cycle after which this is named, and every one-hundred thousand years I begin, again. The start of a new cycle has not come, yet I have started to change.

One hundred years has brought this alteration, this transformation, that will stop when? For nature is predictable, but this is not. It is a shift. Stagnation to casual, stagnation to buzzing, casual to buzzing: nothing has become stagnant. Without one, the other two will become carcinogens and multiply uncontrollably. Some may say that they are flourishing, but the bliss of the casual disappears in the chaos that ensues in a hurricane. And this is part of nature’s balance, checked by the murk of the swamps that house alligators in the same ideal of separation of powers that the Founding Father’s wrote into a certain document, before the Industrial Revolution. And if the United States of America does pledge allegiance and fight wars and raise flags in love of this Constitution, then why have they destroyed nature’s example? Disneyland does not stop hurricanes from destroying cities--a result of gasoline-chugging cars which has risen tides and dissipated my glaciers into the air—so why have humans destroyed their lifeline? For now I may be free, crashing into this place of cement that they call Promontory Point in my casual state, yet the U.S. Marshall’s service may as well be floating in my waters because I am a fugitive. Nature once constrained me with millions of years of trial and error, but now I am free, unnaturally. A child released from supervision, humans have let me destroy cities, starve polar bears, drown Miami—have I not proven that I cannot be trusted? Please, return me to my former Constitution, or give me better guidance, your choice.

Working Notes

For this piece, I take the perspective of water. I attempted to show the changes at the microscopic scale, from water to gas to ice, affects the macroscopic scale. I was inspired by Rachel Carson, but I did not try to imitate her persuasive almost-manifesto. Rather, I wanted to create the same effect. She showed the change that came about through the use of pesticides, the “still song of the birds”, so I wished to show the change in water and in life. I also wished to use a wider range of vocabulary that conveyed more detailed descriptions than typically used words. I used prose instead of poetry due to, honestly, my comfortability in its style, but I also believed that it would allow me to explore the macroscopic scale more broadly. Then again, this can also be done with less words in the form of poetry, so that should definitely be an area to improve in, next time. This made it easy to write, and that was something which surprised me. The words flowed easily, and I believe that may have been a result of my love for water, which although oddly-sounding, is something I really am passionate about. I learned that language is free, a lesson from Cecilia Vicuña, and I had not been free in it before. There are many words, phrases, and ideas waiting to be used.

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