David G Haskell

Oh yes, and your average drone is in the landfill within a couple of years, whereas these self replicating marvels turn sunlight and soil, via the food chain, into life

Thank you! I hope you enjoy the book

If you need a little digital reconnection to the pulse of the living Earth, here are about 200 sandhill cranes winging south over Atlanta this afternoon. Their voices have echoed across this continent for at least 5 million years. Hopefully 5 million more

Even if, say, 90% of AI videos aim to merely entertain and are not "deceptive", the remaining 10% are poison to democracy and journalism. Let's not dismiss deepfakes as just another part of ye olde internet

Dismissing AI video lies as "just" another part of the internet goes against the evidence (deepfakes can be persuasive and damaging), and weakens attempts to keep faked video out of important campaigns. Here in GA, AI video lies (not cute "memes") are being deployed in critical senate race.

Continuing their appeasement and enabling of the regime, Apple launches wax-tablet-and-stylus iPhone. Musk goes on podcast to discuss manliness of papyrus

6000 years ago, ancestors in Central Asia had the great idea of collaborating with these wild mustards. In the millennia that followed, people all over Asia, North Africa, and Europe worked with the plants to create a marvelous diversity of delicious forms. Thank you ancestors, thank you Brassica!

Wonderful! Did he have a special relationship with the plant?

See also @paquiliztli's awesome pronunciation help on Insta: www.instagram.com/p/DEX6ZG2vE0g/

Poinsettias are amazing plants. Their name, though? Problematic.
Joel Poinsett was an enslaver and, as Secretary of War, directed the Trail of Tears
In Nahuatl language of C America and S Mexico, the plant's home, the name is Cuetlaxōchitl, pronounced kwe-tla-SHO-cheetl

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Liverwort or Moss? Horny Toad or Fence Lizard? Niche Field Guides Can Tell You.

According to @nytimes.com fishes and moths are "obscure species"
Moths: 160,000 species
Fishes: 33,000 species
Mammals: not quite 6,500 species
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/b...

a jummping spider looks up into the sky, standing on some kinda plant i have no clue what, it's green with a red edge. It looks hoefully up at the sky

It's day 7 of the invertebrate macro photo #ArtAdventCalendar.

Here, have a jumping spider 😘

Amazing convergence of biodiversity from SE Brazil, colonial horticulture,and hummingbird desire gave us "Christmas cactus"

The FIFA trophy for Trump, gold hands reaching up to a gold planet....

The desperate hands of the global south seek to take back an overheated world. Seriously, what's next? The McHamburglar trophy in gourmet cooking? The Pol Pot Human Rights medal? The Jeffrey Epstein childcare grant? The Vladimir Putin democracy fellowship? The Weinstein-Cosby feminism prize?

Is it a bad post? Very well then it is a bad post. (I am large, I contain multitudes of them.)

Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.

They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.

As long as every one of those new residents lives in a detached single family house with no unrelated people, the effects on housing affordability in Boulder should be amazingly positive

They killed the World cup. It is a clear signal to the rest of us that we need to shun FIFA. I was looking forward to watching some games live here in Atlanta. No more. They went out of their way to praise this vile man and his thuggish, destructive actions

FIFA has chosen the wrong side of history by their full-on embrace of this monster. The rest of us should choose to boycott FIFA and its events.

Well, that frees up some time this summer. I was looking forward to watching some World Cup here in Atlanta and online. Please join me in rejecting #FIFA and its events

My two Dem senators in GA are doing exactly this -- opposing and working to stop this horrific regime

What a great teaching and mentoring philosophy. They're lucky to have you as their prof

Advance Reader proofs are in. How Flowers Made our World 🌼. I'm so grateful to all my readers for your support over the years. I could not be more thrilled to share these stories about flowers with you next year. Pre-orders are open, publication date is March 24th 💚
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I just realized that I conflated to species. Ascaris is a roundworm, not a tapeworm

Graphic that reads: "The average hourly wage necessary to afford a one-bedroom apartment in the United States is $28.17. The federal minimum wage is currently $7.25." -- National Low Income Housing Coalition

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.

It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

Yes...in and from mammals of various species. Memorable 😮

Wee beastie wins the day!