Irene Karsten

Best Bird Videos: 21 Favorites from Our Macaulay Library https://youtu.be/QfzDEzfthGM We've reviewed the best bird photos from last year and chosen our favorite bird sounds as well—now it's time to take a look at some of the best video footage. We scour...

Fabulous: Cornell Ornithology features some of the best videos contributed in 2024. Three minutes of pure bliss. #Birds www.allaboutbirds.org/news/best-bi...

09.03.2025 12:38 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

We Finally Know Why Ancient Roman Concrete Was So Durable The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts.

This is the coolest thing I've read this week. www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-k...

23.02.2025 17:42 — 👍 392    🔁 121    💬 29    📌 13

Defense Against Dishonest Charts This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims

flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

15.02.2025 06:48 — 👍 1222    🔁 446    💬 53    📌 51

How Canada Should Respond to Trump Heed the lesson of Thucydides: Only brutality can deter brutal men.

How Canada Should Respond to Trump
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02.02.2025 17:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Opinion | Don’t Believe Him (Gift Article) Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.

Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

02.02.2025 12:15 — 👍 22    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 2

Meet the team | Caterina Florio Step into the world of the exhibition Costume Balls: Dressing Up History, 1870-1927 and meet the Museum's teams of experts.

A short intro to conservation of textiles and thoughts on conserving things never designed to last.

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11.01.2025 11:22 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A B/W BANNER HANGING ON A HIGHWAY OVERPASS: WHICH BIKE LANE DO WE BLAME FOR THIS TRAFFIC

expressway traffic with image of banner hanging on overpass

WHICH BIKE LANE DO WE BLAME FOR THIS TRAFFIC?

Banner this morning in Toronto on the Gardiner ExpresswayThe people of Ontario have had enough Premier Ford.

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13.12.2024 15:07 — 👍 2279    🔁 590    💬 45    📌 45

Priceless Canadian art pieces from St. Anne's church fire wreckage being brought back to life | CBC News Six months after a devastating fire tore through the historic St. Anne's Church, some of the priceless art from the church has been recovered and is in the process of being restored.

What conservators can do after a fire.
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07.12.2024 15:31 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Electricity means efficiency There are no free lunches in energy. But some lunches are far, far cheaper than others. Electrifying everything will massively reduce the overall material and energy requirements of the global energy ...

Transitioning to electrification means a future with much less waste than our current fossil fuel based energy system. Here's an accessible, but very detailed analysis with lots of references. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 www.rewiring.nz/watt-now/ele...

01.12.2024 19:49 — 👍 88    🔁 21    💬 2    📌 4

Why you should pay attention to this Ontario court ruling on a climate-change case A recent Ontario court decision on a climate-change case is the most significant one to date on several fronts, and could bring fundamental changes

Opinion - Why you should pay attention to this Ontario court ruling on a climate-change case: A recent Ontario court decision on a climate-change case is the most significant one to date on several fronts, and could bring fundamental changes

21.11.2024 11:02 — 👍 47    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 0

Conservator Vincent Dion: “Computers and equipment don’t restore works of art...They will never replace the conservator’s experience and judgment.”

17.11.2024 20:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Future tech meets ancient art in Canada’s conservation efforts The Globe and Mail offers the most authoritative news in Canada, featuring national and international news

Great article: www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

17.11.2024 20:45 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0